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mentfi; filaments galbrous, membranous, inserted upon the 

 basal part of the perianth segments, 2 mm. long, outwardly- 

 curved; anther 1 mm. long, basifixed, sagittately ovate, very 

 pale yellow; pistil 0.5 mm. long, subcompressed and 4-angled 

 toward the slightly widened apex, bearing 2 minute sessile 

 stigmas. 



Type specimen number 12966, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

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



Rather numerous in compact red soil with a gravelly 

 subsoil of a dense secondary forested flat at 250 feet altitude. 



Not the same as number 12852 f-om this same region 

 and which I take to be T. ilicifolia Vid. 



Parastrophis grandifolia Elm. n. ap. 



Medium sized tree; stem 5 dm. thick, 14 m. high, branch- 

 ed from above the middle; wood soft, light, yellowish white, 

 odorless, with a faint sweet taste; bark with latex, conspic- 

 uously gray and brown mottled, roughened with excrescen- 

 ces or lenticels, otherwise yellowish white, the young green 

 tips glabrous. Leaves alternate, upon the twigs only, de- 

 scending, nearly flat, much darker green above, likewise gla- 

 brous, drying dull greenish but especially on the under side, 

 broadly oblong or more properly obovately oblong, submem- 

 branous, apex abruptly acuminate, base broadly obtuse or 

 rounded, entire, 2.25 dm. long excluding the petiole, 9 cm. 

 wide; midrib pronounced beneath, glabrous, greenish, flat 

 along the upper side; lateral nerves about 13 pairs, pinnate, 

 similar to the midrib in prominence and color, tips strongly 

 curved and interarching, reticulations evident especially on the 

 lower surface; petiole 2 to 3 cm. long, greenish brown, 

 narrowly caniculate; bud short glubrous, the same in color, 

 less than 1 cm. in length. Inflorescent spikes in pairs from 

 the lowermost leaf axils, pendant, 1.5 to 2.5 dm. long, soft 

 in texture, usually curved or twisted, green except the yel- 

 lowish odorless and sessile flowers; perianth hyaline, glabrous 

 or very minutely ciliate along the margins, obliquely rotund, 

 spreading in anthesis, 1.5 mm. across, the sides frequently 

 rolled upon the ventral side, 4, all united at the very base; 

 filaments also subhyaline, 2 mm. long, crooked or curved. 



