ArciusT 18, 1913] Four Score of New Plants 1791 



Type specimen number 12950, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

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



Gathered in moist stony soil of a steep wooded slope' 

 near a stream depression at about 2000 feet altitude. The 

 bright red color of outer segments and the deep yellow 

 inner ones present a beautiful floral combination! 



Qarcinia palawanensis Elm. n. sp. 



A rather small erect tree; stetn 2 dm. thick and 10 

 m. high, terete, straight, branched toward the top only; wood 

 moderately soft, dingy or yellowish white throughout, odorless 

 and tasteless; bark s^mooth, grayish white mottled, the greater 

 middle portion yellowish, the inner side white and with 

 latex; main branches rather long, divaricate, freely rebranched 

 above the middle; twigs lax, with ascending tips, roughened 

 by the old leaf scars, the young angular portion glabrous. 

 Leaves thickly coriaceous, chiefly horizontal, copious, spreading, 

 the rather blunt acute or obtuse apex recurved, deeply 

 folded upon the upper much deeper green surface, gla- 

 brous, obtuse at base, opposite, drying brown beneath and 

 blackish or steel blue above, the entire margins slightly 

 curved upon the under side, the average blades 1 dm. long, 

 3 cm. wide at least across the middle, oblong in shape; 

 petiole 5 to 8 mm. long, deeply channeled along the upper 

 side, ridged along the lower; mid vein also ridged beneath; 

 the lateral nerves oblique, parallel and straight, relatively 

 minute or obscure, al)out 20 pairs in the larger ones, retic- 

 ulations none. Inflorescence terminal or subterminal, upon 

 dark green or greenish black stalks; peduncle less than 1 

 cm. in length, grooved, glabrous, bearing at the distal end 

 a small cluster of flowers; pedicles shorter, subtended by 

 short rigid obtuse J^rlabrous bracts; calyx green, with brown 

 margins, smooth and leathery, rim-like or very unequally 

 4-Iobulate; petals imbricate, broadly elliptic or ovately so, 4.5 

 mm. long, thinner than the sepals, very finely nerved, 

 margins subhyaline, the sides strongly curved upon the upper 

 or ventral surface, 4, glabrous, luteus; stamens numerously 

 grouped in 4 phalanges, divaricately spreading, opposite the 

 petals; the phalanges fleshy, broadened, citrinus, glabrous, 3 



