Ahgust 18, 1013] Four Pcoke of Nkw Plants 1805 



peduncle 5 cm. long, glabrous toward the thickened base, 

 sprinkled with lenticels; rachis olivaceus and densely pu- 

 berulent, compressed and ridged along the upper side; primary 

 pinnae 15 to 25 opposite pairs, the secondary rachis also 

 puberulent, horizontally spreading; leaflets about 30 pairs, 

 similary spreading, flat, drying very unequally on its sides, 

 6 to 7 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, rounded at apex, base 

 obliquely obtuse or truncate and the lower end sharply pointed, 

 sessile; midvein evident from both sides, reticulations very 

 obscure. Flowering peduncle averaging 1 dm. long, upon a 

 three times as long subterete common stalk which arises 

 either solitary or in small clusters, subterete or angular or only 

 compressed, glabrous, lenticelled; receptacle 4 to 5 cm. long, 

 the distal one third clavately thickened, honey combed or 

 pitted; flowers very n unel•ou^5, easily falling, cremeus, drying 

 brown, glabrous, 8 mm. long; calyx slenderly tubular, the 

 6 mm. long tube glabrous and angularly terete, gradually 

 tapering toward the throat, the basal 1 mm. solidly united ; 

 the lobes very unequal, elliptic or rotund, the 2 larger ones 

 nearly 1.5 ram. long, rounded at the apex, narrow margins 

 very thin and finely ciliate, not much spreading in anlhesis; 

 corolla similarly tubular, exceeding the calyx by 1 m., eubhyaline 

 except the midvein, ultimately separating into 5 nearly equal 

 linear segments which are rounded and puberulent at the 

 apex; stamens about 1 cm. long, glabrous, the hi sal two 

 thirds tubular, the free ends 3 to 4 mm. long, strict or 

 twistingly crooked toward the apex, tips pointed, glabrous; 

 ovary appressed fulvus pubescent, subterete, apex abruptly 

 terminated into the curved and twisted glabrous style, grad- 

 ually tapering at the base into likewise glabrous 2 dm. long 

 stipes, which are as long as the style; stigma very minute. 

 Fruiting stalk somewhat longer; pods 2.5 to 3.5 dm. long, less 

 than 2 cm. wide, bluntly pointed at the i\pex, the basal 5 cm. 

 long stipitate, ribbon-like and very characteristically twisted 

 turning black while curing, bright green and pf-ndant in the 

 fresh state, about 15-seeded. 



Type specimen number 13173, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

 Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, May, 19 ll. 



Quite common in scattered forests and especially along 

 river banks at 250 to 500 feet altitude. P. timoriana (DC.) 



