AiGusT 18, 1913) Foi'R St'ORK OF Nkw Plants 1821 



also curved, subtended by rim-like bract vestiges; calyx shallow- 

 ly cup shaped, also glabrous, with 5 short but relatively 

 broadly rounded lobes, subauriculate at the base, imbricate, the 

 6 mm. broad basal portion very thick and hard, the mid 

 die region densely gland dotted, the thin margins egandular; 

 petals 5, deep lividus, even the calyx of the same color, free 

 or slightly united at the base, 1.25 cm. long, nearly one 

 half as wide, oblongish, abruptly constricted toward the broad 

 base, apex obtusely rounded leathery, also glandular in tlie 

 middle, the thinner margins usually rolled upon the upper 

 surface, twistingly imbricate in the ovoid bud; filaments 5, 

 thick and fleshy, pink, flattened, 3 mm long, nearly as wide 

 at the base, yellowish on the inner, caesius on the outer 

 side; anthers 6 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide across the subtrun- 

 cate base, gradually tapering to the acute apex, introrse, dor- 

 sifixed; ovary pale yellow, subglobose, 3 mm. in diameter; 

 style whitish, about 1 era. long, glabrous, conspicuously looped 

 at the middle, gradually and finely pointed toward the apex. 



Type specimen number 12902, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

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



Discovered this fine species in thin woodlands at 250 

 feet altitude in rather hard, dry and gravelly or even stony 

 ground. Named in honor of Father Victor Roman, then 

 chaplain of the Iwahig Penal Colony, and whose guest I was 

 priviledged to be while making my botanical collection on the 

 reservation. 



Discocalyx merrillii Elm. n. sp. 



Shrub; stem 15 cm. thick, 5 m. high, bratiched from 

 below the middle; main branches suberect or the widely 

 spreading branchlets reclining and recurved; wood quite hard, 

 heavy, odorless and tasteless, latericius throughout and radial 

 lines prominent; bark smonthish or roughly lenticelled, cas- 

 taneus except the grayinh brown epidermis; twigs not num- 

 erous, erect or suberect, terete, 7 to 8 mm. thick, the j'oung 

 apical portion ridged and glabrous. Leaves alternatingly crowd- 

 ed, ascending and strongly recurved toward the slender and 

 sharply acuminate apex, attenuate toward the base, narrowly 

 oblong or the smaller ones oblanceolate, glabrous, entire. 



