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ous, a few mm. long, subtended by bract vestiges, alter- 

 natingly scattered from below the miiidle; flowers few, scat- 

 tered, odorless, the buds conspicuously inflated below the 

 middle; calyx tubular, 4 mm. long by 3 mm. thick, the 

 apical rim-like portion becoming irregularly split or remain- 

 ing truncate, green and cinereous on the exterior except at 

 the rim, subtended by a short acutely pointed bract; corolla 

 1.5 cm. long, tubular and with a bulge below the middle, 

 pulverulent on the exterior, 6-segmented to below the middle; 

 lobes ligulate, pale carnosus, the upper one half divaricately 

 spreading, edges below the middle fimbriately roughened; 

 stamens as many as corolla segments and opposite them; 

 filaments reddish, fleshy, pulverulent especially along the 

 adnate portion, inserted at about the middle of the lobes, 

 the free portion 2 to 3 mm. long; anthers linear, as long 

 as the filaments; style terete, smooth, terminated by a knob- 

 like greenish stigma, 1.5 cm. long. Fruits purplish red, 

 ellipsoidly elongated, smooth. 



Type specimen numbers 12699 and 12610, A. D. E. Elmer, 

 Brooks Point (Addison Peak), Palawan, February, 1911. 



The first number was collected upon a Canarium tree 

 while a large Artocarpus was the host of the latter number, 

 both of which were standing upon the banks of the Lara river 

 at 30 to 50 feet altitude. The Tagbanuas call it "Bagto." 

 Named after Dr. Walter R. Shaw, professor of botany in the 

 Philippine University. 



Related to L. pentandrus Linn, and to L. mearnsii Merr., 

 but distinguished in a number of minor characters. 



MAGNOLIACEAE 

 Qoniostoma pulg^arense Elm. n. sp. 



Shrubby; twigs numerous, erect, glabrous, grayish white, 

 subterete, roughened by the old leaf scars, the ultimate ones 

 very short. Leaves opposite, rather crowded toward the dis- 

 tal ends, ascending, glabrous, nearly flat, coriaceous, black- 

 ish on both sides in the dry state, entire, elliptic or ob- 

 ovately so, acute or obtuse at both ends, 4 cm. long in- 

 cluding the petiole, 2.5 to 2 cm. wide at the middle, fre- 



