1760 



Leaflets of Pitilippixe Botany [Vol. V, Art. 93 



divaricate, relatively slender, subtended by mi.uite cadu- 

 cous bracts; calyx yellowish green, broadly cup shaped, glau- 

 cous,^ with occasional resin like glands scattered over the 

 exterior, valvate, rotately spreading in anthesis, nearly the 

 basal one half united, the triangularly oblong 5 segments 

 obtuse at apex and ciliately bearded on the basal ventral 

 side; stamens 10, curvingly inflexed in the bud state; the 

 glabrous filaments 3.5 ram. long, spreading and usually cur- 

 ved; anther pale yellow, oval or short and broad ellipsoid, 

 versatile, the lateral cells well parted at the base, 0.5 mm. 

 across; pistils not seen; the central portion occupied by few 

 to several dense tufts of reddish brown straight hairs arising 

 from the brown rugose and cushion like fleshy membranes. 



Type specimen number 12594, A. D. E. Elmer, Brooks 

 Point (Addison Peak), Palawan, February, 1911. 



Discovered at about 25 feet altitude along the coastal 

 forests and indeed near a fertile swampy region. The natives 

 or Tagbanuas of this region called it "Talisoi." Named with 

 pleasure after Dr. E. B. Copeland, dean of the College of 

 Agriculture, University of the Philippines. 



Terminalia iwahig^ensis Elm. n. sp. 



A medium sized erect tree; trunk 6 dm. thick, 12 m. 

 high, branched from below the middle, terete; wood heavy, 

 hard, extremely burly, odorless and nearly tasteless, the outer 

 several cm. melleus, the balance or central portion fuligin- 

 eus; bark 2 cm. thick, deeply checked longitudinally, dull 

 brown on the stem, grayish on the branchlers, otherwise 

 dull melleus; main branches divaricate, long, rather crooked, 

 freely rebranched from the middle; twigs horizontal or de- 

 scending, scattered along the upper side of the secondary 

 branches, very short, usually in subwhorls of 3, glabrous, 

 thickened at the ends by the dense leaf scars. Leaves ample, 

 beautifully scattering from the ends of the twigs, regularly 

 ascending and of nearly equal size, light green yet paler 

 beneath, coriaceous, very shallowly folded on the upper fuh- 

 lucid surface, curing deep brown on both sides, ovate or 

 ovately cuneate, the broadly cuneate base entire, otherwise 

 subentire or very coarsely and shallowly crenate, apex broadly 



