August 18, 1913] Foir Siork of Nkw Plants 1803 



linear compressed ovary densely hirsute and as long as the 

 stipe, with an aseendingly tipped 2 mm. long glabrous style; 

 stigma minute. 



Type specimen number 12965, A, D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

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



Found in the tops of large trees in densely forested fertile 

 flats at 250 feet above sea. 



Caesalpinia minutiflora Elm. n. sp. 



Scandent and sprawling; stem 5 cm. thick, terete, oc- 

 casionally branched, quite rigid, naked; wood distinctly bitter, 

 odorless, with a large nearly black pith, soft and porous, the 

 outer one half dingy yellowish white, the balance testaceus; 

 bark yellowish, with a green hypoderniis, the middle region 

 also testaceus, the inner side sappy white; branches long, 

 spinescent, the ultimate ones nearly glabrous, reddish brown 

 in the dry state and minutely light brown lenticelled. Leaves 

 alternatingly scattered, ascending or horizontal, 3 to 5 dm. 

 in length, with about 9 pairs of compound leaves; petiole 1 

 dm. long or less, terete, pulverulent or smooth, rachis similar 

 and usually spiny along the nether side; stipule coriaceous, 

 ovately oblong, 5 mm. long, curved and twisted, minutely 

 pulverulent, striate, usually beneath it with a pair of spines; 

 leaflets coriaceous, flat, yellowish green beuPMtli, shining deep 

 green above, entire, apex truncately rounded and emarginate, 

 base obliquely truncate and inequilateral, 3 cm. long and 

 1 cm. wide or smaller, the basal pairs smaller, lucid on both 

 sides, curing deep brown beneath and nearly coal black 

 above, sessile, opposite, glabrous, entire; midrib conspicuous 

 beneath; the lateral nerves divaricate and profusely reticulated 

 above the middle. Inflorescence terminal, erect, spicate, termi- 

 nal or from the uppermost leaf axils, shorter than the leaves; 

 the rachis slender, similarly puberulent, flower bearing from 

 near the base; pedicels also subtended by stipular bracts, 

 ascending, 5 to 8 mm. long, more densely puberulent, leaving 

 large scars after falling; flowers deciduous, slightly fragrant, 

 their buds badius; calyx broadly yet shallowly cup shaped, 

 5, united at the thicken-d base, 7 mm. long, puberulent 

 on the outside, roundly pointed, the basal one broader at 



