August 18, 1913] Four Score of New Plants 1<89 



QarciAia sulphurea Elm. n, sp. 



An erect tree; stein 1.5 dm. thick, 7 m. high, terete, 

 straight, branched from below the middle; wood heavy, 

 sappy white, slightly bitter, odorless, rather soft throughout; 

 bark grayish brown mottled, smooth or minutely checked, 

 the middle portion latericius, the whitish inner sicle bleed- 

 ing with an abundance of citrinus sticky sap; mnin branches 

 divaricate, very long, freely rebranched; twigs relatively 

 short, green, ascending, obscurely angled, glabrous. Leaves 

 profuse, horizontal, recHrved toward the rather blunt and 

 abruptly acute to acuminate apex, opposite, obtuse at base, 

 glabrous, entire, coriaceous, the blades 7 to 9 cm. long and 

 B era. wide across the middle though frequently smaller, 

 curing brown on both sides, dull beneath, folded upon the 

 upper green surface, oblong or broadly lanceolate; midrib 

 quite prominent; nerves about 9 to 13 pairs, faint though 

 nearly equally plain from both sides, reticulations none. 

 Flowers in small axillary clusters, rigid, sulphureua even in 

 the bud state; pedicel 3 to 5 mm, long, glabrous; calyx 

 also glabrous, composed of 2 slightly unequal decussate pairs 

 of nearly free sepals, 1.75 mm. long, more oblongish than 

 elliptic, rounded at apex; petals free, alternating with the 

 sepals and spreading in a cross-like fashion when in full 

 flower, about 4 mm. long, rigidly coriaceous, also glabrous, 

 subequal, averaging 2 mm. broad, usually somewhat expanded 

 toward the distal end, truncate at base, pulverulent on the 

 back, broadly linear; stamens numerous, about 20, upon a 

 flattened receptacle, erect, sessile; anthers angularly compress- 

 ed, upon a nearly black base, 0.75 mm. long, apex trun- 

 cate and usually obs^curely emarginate; pistil at first yellow- 

 ish white but soon turning testaceus, not observed among 

 the dried flowers. 



Type specimen number 12907, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

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



Collected in light or secondary forests of fertile soil between 

 open grass patches along the Iwahig river at 2-50 feet altitude. 

 This same species has twice before been collected on this same 

 island. 



Its strongest affinity is with G. binucao (Blco.) Choys. 



