1^«^2 Leaflets of Pitilippine Botaxy [Vol. V, Art. 9'^ 



mm. long; anthers upon very short and compressed filaments, 

 basifixed, averaging 0.5 mm. in width, a trifle shorter, 

 shallowly emarginate at apex, the subglobose cells opening 

 along the edges and over the apical side, promiscuously 

 scattered over the distal one half of the upper side of the 

 phalanges; ovary superior, pulverulent, glabrous, truncately 

 globose, 3 mm. in diameter, terminated by a short blunt 

 point; stigma large, luteus and glutinous. 



Type specimen number 13027, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

 Prineesa (Mt. Pulgajj, Palawan, April, 1911. 



Discovered in moist adobe soil of a densely wooded flat 

 at 50 feet altitude. 



Very near to yet in my opinion specifically distinct 



' from G. luzoniensis Merr. Ours has thicker leaves whose apices 



are not quite so abruptly acuminate nor its lateral nerves so 



prominent. Number 678 Whitford is in the same condition 



as to age and sex, though much more floriferous than ours. 



HIPPOCRATEACEAE 

 Salacia cymosa Elm. n. sp. 



Climbing and sprawling shrubs; stem 5 cm. thick at 

 least, subterete or wadded, croaked and numerously rebranched; 

 wood without odor or taste, rather soft, with few but very 

 conspicuous concentric rings, the white outer portion gra- 

 dually blending into the greater latericius central mass; bark 

 smoothish, grayish brown, reddish brown on the young por- 

 tion at least in the dry state, densely grayish brown lenti- 

 celled, tough twigs forming interlaced more or less hanging 

 masses. Leaves opposite, well scattered along the branchlets, 

 chiefly descending, subcoriaceous, deeper green and sublucid 

 upon the upper curvingly folded surface, unequally brown 

 on the dry specimens, entire, obtuse or obtusely rounded at 

 both ends, oblong, the larger blades 15 cm. long and 6.5 

 cm. wide across the middle, frequently smaller and subellip- 

 tic, glabrous at all stages; veins prominent beneath, flat above; 

 petiole 1 cm. long, much thickened when old, caniculate; 

 lateral nerves 5 to 8 on each side, ascendingly curved from 

 the base, quite prominent beneath and very evident from 



