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in full flower; petals cremeus, often lacking or occasionally 

 with an obovately linear appendage 6 mm. in length, de- 

 ciduous; stamens very numerous, well interlaced, inserted 

 upon the pseudorim at the base of the calyx segments; fila- 

 ments fih'form, glabrous, 2 to 3 mm. long, gradually thick- 

 ened and minutely papillose toward the distal end; anther 

 flattened, basifixed, 1 mm. long, bifurcate at the apex, at- 

 tenuate toward the base, cells opening at the distal end o- 

 the short thick forks; ovary 4-carpellary, each carpel 2.5 

 mm. long and abruptly extended into a 2 to 3 mm. long 

 glabrous style which terminates by a small stigma, the sub- 

 triangular carpels glabrous but finely rugose; ovules several 

 but usually only one developing into a mature seed. 



Type specimen number 13048, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

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



Discovered in the humid fertile Dipterocarp forested flat 

 at about 250 feet altitude. 



Allied to T. macrophylla Wall, but ours is less pub- 

 escent if not entirely glabrous and inflorescence more loosely 

 flowered . 



Wormia sibuyanensis Elm. n. sp. 



Shrubs, 3 m. high or higher; stem several or when sol- 

 itary branched from the base; branches numerously rebranch- 

 ed, quite rigid and brittle; wood moderately hard and heavy, 

 sappy white, odorless, with a slight sweet taste; bark smooth, 

 grayish brown, when old apparently scaling in plates; twigs 

 relatively short, erect or nearly so, glabrous. Leaves copious, 

 suboppositely scattered or crowded toward the distal ends, 

 ascending, rigidly chartaceous, shinging deep green on the 

 upper folded surface, glabrous except the veins beneath, much 

 lighter green beneath, the entire margins subin volute in the 

 dry state and apiculate toward the sharply acuminate 

 apex, base obtuse, broadly oblanceolate or narrowly obo- 

 vately oblong, the larger lamina 7.5 cm. long and 2.5 cm. 

 wide aliove the middle, frequently much smaller and occasional- 

 ly larger, curing unequally dull brown on the upper and 

 lower surfaces; midrib ridged beneath, sparsely strigose; lateral 

 nerves 5 to 7 pairs, mucih ascending, also conspicuous and 



