August 18, 1913] Four Scobk of New Plants 1769 



to 8 mm. long or shorter, alternatingly clusteroil toward the 

 distal end of the ultimate branchlets, subtended by small 

 caducous similarly hairy bracts, calyx subglobose, rigid, coria- 

 ceous, imbricate, the 5 segments united at the base, broadly 

 elliptic, 3.5 mm. long and nearly as wide, short touientose 

 on the outside, the margins of the inner ones ciliate; corolla 

 yellowish white, almost 1 cm. long; the 5 segments imbri- 

 cate and in the bud state slightly twisted, the basal 

 portion united into a short broad tude, narrowed toward 

 the base, the dorsal portion provided with a special ovate- 

 ly oblong hairy coriaceous adnate membrane, terminated by 

 2 much thinner and glabrous divaricate membrane; these 

 membranes are 3 to 4 mm. long, about 1 mm. less in width and 

 are usually truncate and more or less toothed or fimbriate along 

 the margins; stamens 5, inflexed in the bud state, alternate 

 with the segments and inserted upon tiie orifice of the cor- 

 olla; filament smooth, much flattened, very short and broad; 

 anthers basifixed, narrowly cordate at base, ovately acumi- 

 nate, 1.5 mm. long, one half as wide across the base; ovary 

 ovoidly ellipsoid, sessile, appressed pubescent, terminated by a 

 glabrous hood-like stigma, well parted at the apex, apparently 

 only 1-celled, the 4 ovules basal. Young fruit ellipsoid, 

 similarly pubescent, with a pointed apex, 1 cm. long, terete, 

 thick, subtended by the calyx. 



Type specimen number 13221, A, D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

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



Collected in shallow red soil with a deep gravelly sub- 

 soil along the wooded Iwahig river banks at 250 feet altitude. 



To be compared with E. hizonensis Merr. and E. ex- 

 pansa Wall. 



DICHAPETALACEAE 

 Dichapetalum olivaceum Elm. ri. sp, 



A scandent shrub; stem bendable, 3 cm. thick, terete, 

 branched all along toward the top; wood very soft, porous, 

 ochraceus especially in the center, odorless but with a slight 

 though distinct sweet taste; bark murinus, rather thick, 

 shallowly checked or fluted longitudinally, the hypodermis 



