August 18, 1913] Four Score of New Plants 1809 



quently much smaller; the black midrib also glabrous, not 

 evident on the upper side, the 3 lateral pairs of Jierves 

 barely visible even from the lower side; petiole 5 mm. long 

 or less, black in the ilry state, glabrous, caniculate. Fruits in 

 small axillary cluster.-? or more frequently from the axils of the 

 fallen leaves, erect, subpersistent; pedicel subglabrous, 5 ram. 

 long, subtended at the b.vse by a series of unequal blunt 

 and glabrous bracts, provided with few alternating bracteoles; 

 fruiting calyx 5-segmented nearly to the base, coriaceous, sparse- 

 ly puberulent on the back and finely ciliate along the 

 margins, ovately elliptic, 2 mm. long, rotately spreading, apex 

 obtuse; carpels 2, very thick and deeply concavo-convex, de- 

 hiscing from apex toward the base, pulverulent on outride, 

 8 mm. long, elliptic when spread out, terminated by a very 

 short and thick style bearing a large and subglobose stigma; 

 seeds about 16, glomerated into a compressed more or less 

 divided mass, arranged along the central placenta, 2 mm. 

 across, stone-like, very irregular in shape, scaly, short ciliate 

 or pulverulent. 



Type specimen number 13197, A. D. E- Elmer, Puerto 

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



Collected on the summit region of the mountain whose 

 name it bears, scattered among other interlaced shrubs and 

 low stocky trees at 4000 feet altitude. 



Talauma pulgarense Elm. n. .--p. 



A very sparingly branched shrub, 3 to 4 m. high, with 

 a 1 dm. thick stem; branchlets terete, glabrous, the ulti- 

 mate portion green, the older portion light gray. Leaves al- 

 ternate or subopposite, usually grouped about the point of 

 branching, very unequal in size, the smaller ones broadly 

 lanceolate or oblanceolate, the larger ones elongated and 2 

 dm. long by 6 cm. wide a trifle above the middle, cuneate 

 at the base, gradually tapering toward the acute apex, mar- 

 gins entire and usually undulate above the middle, glabrous, 

 similarly grayish on both sides when dry, equally sublucid 

 on both sides, the terminal subwhorl averaging smaller, the 

 nether surface of the old leaves grayish punctate; petiole, 

 1.5 cm. long, the basal 1 cm. much thickened and with 



