August 18, 1913] Four Score of New Plants 1777 



obscurley, angular; wood hard, heavy, burly, odorous, 

 whitish, suddenly changing to a dark reddish brown or 

 chocolate color; bark deeply checked, scaling in thick but 

 rather small plates, dull brown or gray on the branchlets, 

 otherwise reddish brown. Leaves ascending, along the young 

 tips only, alternate, coriaceous, drying unequally browr) on 

 the 2 sides, shallow]y conduplicnte on the upper very luci<l 

 s\irface, the very blunt and minutely emarginate apex re- 

 curved, base obtuse, elliptic, the larger ones 6 cm. long 

 and 2.5 cm. wide across the middle, tiie smaller obovately 

 elliptic young terminal leaves erect, strongly involute and 

 appearing as an elongated fruiting pod; raidvein very pro- 

 minent and darker broTvn beneath, flat upon the still lucid 

 side; the lateral nerves very faint, divaricate, about 8 on 

 each side, coarsely reticulate for the outer one half; petiole 

 5 mm. long, dark brown, caniculate, glabrous. Flowers 

 odorless, erect, solitary from above the old leaves and first 

 from below the new ones or axillary; pedicels nearly 1.5 

 cm. long, very slender, glabrous, green; bud bracts 3 ram. 

 long, triangularly obtuse, rigid, glabrous, drying brown, ca- 

 ducous, leaving scars; calyx green, glabrous, fleshy, 2.5 ram. 

 long, 1 mm. less in width, ovately triangular, acute toward 

 the callous pointed tip, persistent, erect; petals whitish, 5, 

 erect and forming a false tube, deciduous, 4 mm. long, nearly 

 one half as wide, rounded at apex, thickened and somewhat 

 constricted at the base, glabrous, on the inner side a trifle 

 below the middle provided with a conspicuou'<ly rugose mem- 

 brane or fold; stamineal tube wide, encircling the ovary, 

 2.25 mm. high, glabrous, irregularly truncate; filaments 2.5 

 mm. long, crinkled toward the apex, also glabrous, erect, 

 inserted upon the inner side of the rim-like tube a trifle 

 below the edge; anther 0.5 to 0.75 mm. long, oval, shallow- 

 ]y cordate at the base, a trifle wider across the base, cells 

 laterally opening; ovary glabrous, 2.5 mm. long, 1 mm. less 

 in thickness, obovoidly elongated; styles 3, united at or 

 toward the base, outwardly curved toward the distal end, 

 1.5 mm. long, terminated by a subglobose expanded stigma. 



Type specimen number 13227, ^4. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

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



Collected in wet stony ground of the wooded Iw:iliig 



