August IS, 1913] Four Score of Xkw Plants 1795 



pi- grayish bmwn, almos^t cremeua incarnatu? beneUh, only 

 the young ones caiiescent on the upper surface, grayish stri- 

 gose in old ones or becDining subglabrous, the hirger lamina 

 5 cm. long by one half as wide below the middle; mid- 

 vein prominent beneath especially at the base, canescent along 

 the upper side in the younger leaves, with a pair of near- 

 ly equal lateral nerves 3 mm. al)ove the bi'se of the blade 

 and extending into the apical region, cross bars obsolete; 

 petiole 5 mm. long or longer, thick, distinctly furrowed, in- 

 canus, finally glabrate. Inflorescence exceeded by the foliage, 

 1 to 3 cm. long, erect or ascending, terminal or arising so- 

 litarily fnun the uppermost leaf axils, subtended by rather 

 large deciduous similarly canescent bracts; the peduncle strict, 

 striate, hairy, terminated by a small cluster of flowers; pe- 

 dicel 1 to 3 mm. long, puberulent, subtended by small ca- 

 ducous bracts; flowers erect; calyx segments rigid, concavo-convex, 

 about 5, imbricate, rotund or orbicular, 3 mm. across, united 

 at the base into a concrete mass, incanus on dorsal side; 

 stamens about 6 fertile and 3 sterile, the larger ones with 4 cells, 

 the small or more dwarfed ones apparently with only 2, upon 

 short hairy stalks, I to 2 mm. long, the 3 larger ones prov- 

 ided with conspicuous lateral glands, the most inner series 

 reduced to puliescent conical points, all introrse; ovary 

 1 mm. long, subglobose, more or less angled through the 

 pressure of the sterile stamens, glabrous, the thick style as 

 long and likewise glabrous. 



Type specimen number 13184, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

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



It is another one of the numerous new species collected 

 on a fine May day in the chaparral vegetation on the sum- 

 mit region of mount Pulgar. 



Not sure of its rightful genus. 



Actiaodaphne cinerea Elm. n. sp. 



Shrub-like though slender and erect; stems terete, 

 crooked, 1 dm. thick, 7 m. high, branched from above 

 the middle; wood moderately hard or tough, odorless and 

 without taste, light in specific gravity, yellowish and 

 gradually changing to a rather deep yellow center; bark 



