August 18, 1913] Fodr Scork of New Plants 1761 



at least 1 cm. across, normally 4-seeded; seeds 5 mm. long, 

 compressed globose, ater, appearing slightly velvety, angled 

 on the inner side and with a large scar at the basal ven- 

 tral side. 



Type specimen number 12777, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

 Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, March, 1911. 



Overtopping and sprawling upon jungled woods along the 

 wet stony Iwahig river bank at 750 feet elevation, 



Erycibe lateraliflora Elm. n. sp. 



A scandent and widely spreading shrub; stem terete, 7 

 cm, thick; wood cremeus throughout, soft, porous, odorless, 

 distinctly sweet; bark thin, similar in color except the smooth 

 grayish white epidermis; main branches long and freely 

 rebranched, the ultimate ones lax and more or less drooping, 

 terete, glabrous clear to the tips. Leaves alternate, scattered, 

 smooth, glabrous at least in the old ones, descending, dark 

 green above and paler green beneath, drying nearly similarly 

 brown, apex abruptly acute to acuminately round pointed, 

 base broadly obtuse or rounded, coriaceous or subchart^ceous, 

 entire, 11 cm. long without the petiole, 5 to 6 cm. wide at 

 the middle, elliptic or oblongish; midrib quite prominent beneath, 

 nearly flat above; lateral nerves 5 to 7 pairs, ascending, 

 more prominent beneath, tips much curved and usually anas- 

 tomosing; reticulations fine, obscure, more evident upon the 

 nether side which is usually very minutely punctate; pistil 

 nearly black, also glabrous, caniculate, 1.5 cm. long, usually 

 curved. Inflorescence profuse along the branchlets, badius 

 puberulent throughout; spikes racemose, solitary or more 

 commonly clustered, varying from 1 to 5 cm. in length, 

 occasionally from the leaf axils, the larger ones with few 

 short branches toward the base, bracteate toward the distal 

 ends; pedicels 5 to 8 mm. long, subtended by blunt 

 caducous blackish brown bracts, a trifle enlarged and bract 

 bearing toward their ends; the free portion of the calyx 2 

 ram. long, the basal one half united, rigidly coriaceous, 

 imbricate, the 5 lobes broadly elliptic or rotund, ciliate along 

 the margins and oppressed hairy on the back, the marginal 

 portion much thinner; petals united at the base, 5, th^ 



