August 18, 1913] Foitr Score of New Plants 1775 



the base, basifixed, ovately acuminate, rather slenderly pointed, 

 laterally dehiscent toward the base; ovary deformed, short 

 obovoid, rugose toward the truncately rounded apex, bearing 

 a short point. Fruits upon 5 mm. long stalks, subglobose, 

 at least 1 cm. in diameter, glabrous, green or yellowish 

 tinged, subtended by the 4 per^stent and much enlarged 

 calyx wings, all black in the dry staie; the segments 1.5 

 cm. long and lanceolate, the apex blunt, united at the 

 base, thickly coriaceous, minutely striate. 



Type specimen number 13128, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

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



In red gravelly soil of shruberries or very light woods 

 near the main light material barracks of the colonists. 



lis remarkable calyx wings in the fruiting state dis- 

 tinguish it at once from D. nitida Merr. 



Diospyros merrillii Elm. n. sp. 



Large tree; trunk 12 dm. thick, 20 to 25 m. high, 

 straight, chiefly branched toward the top, more or less wadded 

 especially toward the base; wood hard, odorless and tasteless 

 the thin outer portion white, rather suddenly changing to 

 the incarnatus inner region, the central mass abruptly changing 

 to a nearly black; bark relatively thin, the outer side nu- 

 merously checked and scaling in plates, ater or blackish, the 

 middle region testaceus, the inner side yellowish white; main 

 branches spreading but not long, crooked, freely rebranched, 

 forming an elongated or umbrella-like crown; twigs quite bend- 

 able, suberect, griseus, the terminal young short portion 

 densely isabellinus hairy, the second year old parts griseus 

 striguse, ultimately glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, alternating, 

 shallowly curved upon the upper deep lucid green and glab- 

 rous surface, the nether side of the young leaves thickly 

 brown hairy, these before falling turn griseus in color, di- 

 verse in size, the average ones 5 by 12 cm. in size but fre- 

 quently much smaller, entire, apex rounded and usually ter- 

 minated by a recurved very sharp point, base obtusely rounded, 

 the sides somewhat curved upon the lower surface, usually 

 obovately oblong. Flowering spikes terminal, short, thick; sim- 

 ilarly hairy; angular flowers pistillate, few clustered toward 



