Ai'GL'ST J8, 1913] Four Score of Nkw Plants 1779 



2 mm. long, subequal in length, arising from below the 

 disk; anther 0.25 mm. long, versatile, oval; ovary disk 

 large, densely puberulent except along the rugose nether 

 marginal region. Fruit upon recurved or subpendant thickened 

 st;ilks, scattered; the nuts ovately elongated, solitary usually, 

 entirely enclosed by the spinescent carpel; bars 2.5 to 4 cm. 

 long, short ellipsoid or ovoidly so, subsessile or upon a di.s- 

 tinct stipe, the exterior surface minutely puberulent and 

 rugosely excrescent, woolly hairy on the exterior basal portion, 

 densely covered with pale or yellowish green needle pointed 

 spines 5 mm. in length and more or less finely puberulent. 



Type specimen number 12938, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

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



Discovered in red c )mpaGt soil upon a densely forested 

 incline at 750 feet altitude along the trail leading to Nap- 

 san a small trading post on tbe easth coast of Palawan- 

 Dedicated to Gov. J. H. Evans of Puerto Princesa. 



Apparently most closely related to C. castanicarpa (Roxb.) 

 Spach. and more distantly to C. argyrophylla King. 



FLACOURTIACEAE 



Hydnocarpus unonifolia Elm. n. sp. 



A slender shrub-like tree; stem 1 dm. thick, terete, 5 

 ra. high, rather crooked, branched from near the middle; 

 wood quite soft, odorless and tasteless, the thin sapwood 

 white, otherwise yellow or yellowish; bark relatively thick, 

 smooth, greenish gray blotched on the surface, avellaneus 

 otherwise except the whitish inner side; branches slender, 

 divaricate, freely rebranched, the lax ultimate ones horizontal 

 or drooping, the young twigs finely ferrugineus tomentose. 

 Leaves also drooping or horizontal, thinly coriaceous, flat or 

 only the abruptly acuminate tips recurved, oblong or elliptic- 

 ally elongated, base broadly obtuse or rounded on the larger 

 ones, 7 by 15 cm. but more frequently much smaller, al- 

 ternatingly scattered along the twigs, when young sparsely 

 hairy on both aides, aoon wearing glabrous, entire, curing 

 unequally brown; midrib pronounced beneath, shallowly grooved 

 on the upper surface, puberulent on both sides; the 7 puips 



