ArorsT 18, 1913] Four Score of New Plants 1781 



concavo-convex; the petals or inner series imbricate, also 

 glabrous, tJie outer or larger ones nearl.v 1 cm. long, elliptic 

 or ov^ately oblong, the smaller inner ones subfalcate and its 

 sides strongly folded upon the ventral surface, about 12 in 

 number or less, the inner ones apparently persistent, finely 

 striate, apex of the larger ones broad or truncately rounded; 

 stamens very numerous, inserted around the bas-al portion 

 of the ovary; filaments glabrous, crooked, well interlaced, 

 falsely united into branches at the base, 8 mm. long, sub- 

 equal; anther truncate at both ends and minutely notched 

 at apex and emarginate at base, compressed, oblong, 1 mm. 

 wide at the middle, 1.5 mm. long, dehiscing laterally; ovary 

 large, globose, somewhat rugose when dry, 4 mm. in dia- 

 meter, glabrous; style 2 mm. long, thick, glabrous, terminated 

 by an equally sized stigma. 



Type specimen number 13217, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

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



Collected upon the rocky summit bearing a dense blank- 

 et of chaparral vegetation at 4250 feet altitude. 



Very close to number 1478 collected by C. B. Robinson 

 in the vicinity of Nha-trang, Annam, Indo-China. 



Cratoxylon hypoleuca Elm. n. sp. 



A small erect tree; stem 2 dm. thick. 8 m. high, terete, 

 branched from the middle; wood moderately soft or hard, 

 heavy, white, without odor or taste; bark isabellinus on the 

 smooth outer surface, the middle region greenish, scaling in 

 thin minutely checked plates; main branches ascending, 

 giving rise to numerous lax suberect branchlets, the glaucous 

 green young portion glabrous. Leaves usually opposite, 

 membranous or submembranous, glabrous, horizontal or 

 pendant, usually folded upon the upper pleasing green 

 surface and strongly recurved at the gradually acuminate 

 sharp apex, subglaucescent green or hypoleucous beneath, the 

 average ones 1 dm. long by 3 cm. wide below the middle, 

 occasionally larger, frequently smaller, those subtending the 

 inflorescence lanceolate and only 3 cm. long, ovately oblong, 

 occasionally elliptic, base broadly obtuse or rounded, entire, 

 drying brown above, grayish beneath; midrib bold beneath, 



