1810 Lkaflets of Piulippine Botany [Vol.. V, Art. 93 



an upper flat surface; midvein prominent and ridged on both 

 sides, similarly gray when dry ; lateral nerves 9 to 1 1 on 

 each side, subdivaricate, straight, their tips united and only 

 slightly arching, at least as evident from the upper side, the 

 reticulations minute and very plain from both sides. Flow- 

 ers terminal, solitary; stalks 7 cm. long, stout, glabrous, ridg- 

 ed at the base and toward the thickened distal end; bud 

 elliptically elongated, constricted at the base, 2.25 cm. long 

 and nearly 1 cm. thick; perianth segments averaging 2 cm. 

 long and 6 mm. wide, narrowly oblong, in the bud state 

 apparently imbricate and tawny hairy on the inner overlap- 

 ping surface, in anthesis entirely glabrous and spreading, 

 separately attached upon the torus, broad or truncate at base, 

 obtuse at apex, coriaceous, cremeus, the innermost ones much 

 smaller, about 7 to 9 in number; stamens erect, 1 cm. long, 

 linear, 1.5 mm. wide, upon a short blackish stalk or fila- 

 ment, introrse, flattened, abruptly constricted at the callous blunt 

 point, usually curved; pistil glabrous, 1.25 cm. long and 

 about one half as thick, 5-ridged, terminated in as many 

 rather elongated points. 



Type specimen number 13192, A. D, E. Elmer, Puerto 

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



Only one shrub -was seen in a forested ridge at 2000 

 feet altitude of the mountain after which it is named. 



Not T. gitingense Elm. 



MALPIGHIACEAE 

 Hiptage pinnata Elm. n. sp. 



Scandent; stem terete, 3 to 8 cm. long, subtwining, 

 ultimately laxly rebranched; wood pale white, tough, fibrous, 

 without odor, slightly sweet; bark brown, minutely lenticelled, 

 the young portion subglabrous. Leaves light green when 

 young, 3 to 5-pinnate, the old ones similarly dark green 

 on both sides, sublucid on the upper side, chartaceous or 

 Bubmembranous, entire, opposite, well scattered, the abruptly 

 though sharply acuminate apex twistingly recurved, glabrous, 

 base rounded, drying equally brown on both sides, the 

 larger leaflets 15 cm. long excluding the petiole, 6 cni. 



