August 18, 1913] Foitr Score of New Plants 1815 



subglabrous, inserted upon the base of the perianth segments; 

 anthers much compressed, i)a«ifixeil at the truncate base, 

 apex deeply and narrowly notched, 0.5 mm. long or high, 

 0.75 mm. Avide, pale white except the brownish connective; 

 pistils not seen. 



Type specimen number 13176, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

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



Collected in moist humus covered soil near a streamlet 

 of a densely forested flat at 500 feet altitude. 



Leaves fewer, more than twice as large and not turn- 

 ing brown upon drying as in P. phUippinensis (Buv.) Vil. 

 The species called Paratrophis caudata Merr. may be identical 

 to Taxatrophis ?nlndanaensis Warb. 



MYRISTICACEAE 

 Knema latericia Elm. n. sp. 



A small though slender erect tree; wood rather soft, red- 

 dish tinged toward the center, without (dor or taste; 

 bark brow^n, scaling in thin plates, molasses red beneath the 

 epidermis and with a similarly colored sap; stem at least 1.5 

 dm. thick, 10 ra. high; branches divaricate, chiefly at the 

 top, freely rebranched, the old portion of the twigs gray, 

 the young portion testaceus scurfy. Leaves flat, horizontal 

 or descending, subchartaceous, dark green on the upper glab- 

 rous side, glaucous beneath, apex rather short acute or ob- 

 tuse, base broadly rounded, oblong or the smallest ones broadly 

 lanceolate, the larger blades 14 cm. long by 4 to 4.5 cm. 

 wide toward the base, entire, alternatingly scattered along 

 the twigs; petiole 1.25 cm. long, thick, caniculate along the 

 upper side, densely testaceus scurfy; midrib prominent and 

 in the young state scurfy yellowish brown, also prominent 

 along the upper side, glabrous; lateral nerves 14 to 17 pairs, 

 subdivaricate, parallel, tips much ascending and faintly united, 

 prominent beneath, ultimately glabrous, cross bars very fine 

 and obscure. Flowers solitary or usually clustered upon short 

 thick ligneous tubercles from the axils of the fallen leaves, 

 rigid, sessile; calyx constricted into a very short thick stipe, 

 5 mm. long beyond the stipe, united below the middle, 3-lob- 



