August 18, 1913] Foitk Score of New Pi.ANia 1773 



ptrigose beneath, tips usually connected, tufts of grayish liair 

 in their axils, reticulations rather obscure; petiole 1 cm. long, 

 linear and setaceously pointed, cinereous or subglobose. In- 

 florescence terminal, erect, solitary or 2 to 3-flowered; pe- 

 duncle greenish, the erect and subglobose buds reddish brown> 

 subtended by a single narrowly acuminate bract, glabrous, 3 

 cm. long, somewhat thickened at the distal end; calyx not 

 enlarging and becoming fleshy, glabrous, persistent, rotately 

 spreading; segments about 9, the outer or basal one the 

 smallest, imbricate, gradually becoming larger until the inner 

 whorl of 5 which are 1.5 cm. long and 1 cm. wide and 

 which appear on the ventral middle portion oblong to sub- 

 rotund, apex rounded, the inner ones reflexed and strongly 

 spoon shaped and with thinner margins; petals 5, caducous 

 lemon yellow, veiny, 2.5 cm. long, 1 cm. wide across its 

 widest portion, obovately oblong, margins entire or very ob- 

 scurely and irregularly crenate; stamens many, sessile or the 

 filamentous portion dark purple, closely set and appearing as 

 if united toward the base, erect but soon turning outwardly, 

 7.5 mm. long, 0.75 mm. wide, ligulate, glabrous, truncate or 

 minutely apiculate at apex; ovary bright red, 7.5 mm, long, 

 4 mm. thick, erect, terete and longitudinally ridged, barrel 

 shaped, a trifle constricted toward the apex, glabrous; stig- 

 ma arms 8, whitish, ligulate, succulent, glabrous, rotately 

 spreading and recurved, gradually tapering to the apex, com- 

 pressed, about 8 mm, long, 1.5 mm. wide at the base; 

 fruits dehiscent, of 5 shining wine colored carpels which 

 split from the apex nearly to the base and spread out in a 

 rosette manner, leaving the subglobose brown seeds with their 

 yellow caruncle still attached. 



Type specimen number 12087, A. D. E. Elmer, Magall- 

 anes (Mt. Giting giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Si- 

 buyan, March, 1910. 



Quite commonly scattered along the banks of the Pauala 

 river from 500 to 1000 feet altitude; also noticed along the 

 other river. 



Its fruits are very different from Dillenia and deserves 

 to be Tiept in a different genus. Th»re are a few more 

 species of this genus or group in the Philippines. 



