August 18, 1913] Four Scorb of New Plants 1761 



or cune<ately rounded, the average 1 dm. long by 6 cm. 

 wide above the middle, the smaller ones oTily 2 cm. long, 

 falling when dry and leaving large rugose scars; midrib flat 

 above, very bold beneath; lateral nerves 5 to 8 p.iris as- 

 cendir)gly curved from the midrib, their tips usually united; 

 reticulations minute and obscure from both sides; petiole 

 also glabrous, 2 cm. long, subterete, with a pair of gland 

 marks above the middle and to which the lamina w de- 

 current. Flowering spikes arising between the whorls of leaves, 

 similarly spreailing, 5 to 7 cm. long, terete, gradually ta- 

 pering, puberulent or ultimate'y glabrous, easily becoming 

 detached, usually curved, sulphureus; flowers odorless, scat- 

 tered, sessile, deciduous, the buds and perianth citrinus; 

 petals subcoriaceous, broadly cup shaped, glabrous on the 

 outside, woolly hairy on the inner surface, normally split 

 into 5 segments but frequently divided into more, united 

 around the base; teeth triangular, 3 mm. long, nearly as 

 broad across the base, the nearly obsolete calyx grown to 

 the basal portion of the corolla; stamens numerous, inserted 

 upon the basal corolla portion, of different stages of maturity 

 in the same flowers, inflexed in the bud; filaments whitish, 

 subterete, glabrous, the outer or older ones 3 mm. long, 

 slightly thinner toward the apex; anther deep yellow, broadly 

 ellipsoid, basifixed, well parted at the apex, 0.75 mm. long; 

 pistil wanting, with 5 cushion-like glands at the basal portion 

 of the perianth segments and which bear dense tufts of whitish 

 long woolly persistent hairs; ovary disk aurantiacus. Infru- 

 tescence descending, green, the slender spikes glabrous; nuts 

 stubbily fusiform at both ends, terete, 3 to 5 cm. long, 2.5 

 cm. thick at the middle for the larger ones, its stony seed 

 yellowish brown, green but ater upon drying. 



Type specimen numbers 12998 for flower and 13241 for 

 fruit, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), Pala- 

 wan, April and May respectively, 1911. 



Both numbers were collected along the wooded banks in 

 rather wet gravelly soil of the Iwaliig river, the first at 500 

 feet altitude and the other at twice that elevation. 



