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brown and raised beneatli, also ridgid along the upper side; 

 leteral nerves divaricate, the basal ones with much ascend- 

 ing tips, the tips of the upper ones interarching 5 mm. 

 from the edge, to 9 pairs relatively conspicuous, reticu- 

 lations faint and coarse; petiole 5 to 8 mm. long, thickened 

 and ascendingly curved, deeply grooved on the upper side, 

 dull brown when dry, glabrous. Flowers in small clusters, 

 odorless, erect, in the leaf axils or from their scar axils, 

 upon brownish black short tubercles; pedicel light badius, 

 glabrous, 3 to 4 mm. long, subtended at the base by a 

 series of strongly imbricating persistent brownish bracts; calyx 

 badius, saucer shaped, 1.5 mm. across, coriaceous, also glab" 

 rous, crenately toothed or lobed across the truncate apex; petals 

 5, free, calyx C(dored, elliptic or obovately elliptic, imbricate 

 1.75 mm. long, slightly unequal in width, margins somewhat 

 recurved upon the back, rotately spreading in anthesis; ovary 

 ochraceus, ovoidly globose, 1 mm. long, two thirds of the 

 basal portion grown over by a fleshy glabrous and subglaucous 

 rim, superior; stamens 3; filaments very short and flattened, 

 rather pointed at the apex, arising from the ovary rim 

 toward the apex; anther cells very divaricate, 0.25 ram. 

 long, twice as wide, basifixed, dehiscing along the upper 

 side; style merely apiculate. 



Type specimen number 12990, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

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



Collected in moist rather good soil of wooded flats along 

 a dry creek at 250 feet altitude. 



Its thinner leaves with more evident nerves and larger 

 fruits distinguish it from S. integrifolia Merr. 



L.AURACEAE 

 Neolitsea incana Elm. n. sp. 



Apparently low rigid shrubs; twigs numerous, short, also 

 rigid, the young portion densely canescent, the old ones 

 glabrous, terete. Leaves alternate or subopposite, numerous jk 

 ascending, rigidly chartaceous, flat or the sides toward the 

 base forming a shallow concavity, entire, rather sharply acute, 

 base obtuse to rounded, lucid green above, curing brownii^h 



