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with the style from near the base; style 1 mm. long, also 

 glabrous, erect, bearing at the apex a rugolose flattened 

 stigma. 



Type specimen number 13074, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

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



Discovered in low mixed secondary forests of flats at 

 50 feet above sea level. Named after Dr. Foxworthy, 

 who collected a very similar species in the same general 

 region (see Bureau of Science number 903). The strongly 

 fragrant flowers are visited by swarms of insects. 



OPILIACEAE 

 Opilia frag^rans Elm. n. sp. 



Scadent and shrubby; stem looping, crooked, terete, 

 flexible, 2.5 cm. thick and numerously rebranched toward 

 the top; wood porous, bitterish, odorless, yellowish; bark 

 similar in color, smooth or minutely checked; branches 

 slender, green, smooth, terete, the ultimate ones drooping 

 and forming dense interlaced masses. Leaves copious, al- 

 ternate, coriaceous, chiefly horizontal, the acute apex recur- 

 ved, deep lucid on the upper surface, paler green and dul- 

 ler beneath, equally brown on both sides in the dry state, 

 obtuse at apex, entire, oblong, glabrous, the average leaves 

 3 era. wide at the middle and 10 cm. long; midrib con- 

 spicuous from both sides; the 5 to 9 lateral pairs rather 

 obscure, ascendingly curved, reticulations obsolete, the basal 

 pair running parallel with the leaf margin; petiole 5 to 8 

 mm. long, glabrou:s, grooved along the upper side. Spikes 

 few clustered from the lower leaf axils, pendantly recurved, 

 yellow with a greenish tinge, strongly and sweetly fragrant, 

 as soft as the flowering catkins of the willows, 1 to 3 cm. 

 long; the dry reddish brown rachis flower bearing from near 

 the base, minutely pubescent, subtended at the base by a 

 series of small yellowish gray bracts; pedicels similar, sol- 

 itary or in small clusters, 1 to 3 mm. long or longer, pu- 

 berulent; calyx subglabrous, coriaceous, minute and merely 

 disk-like; petals in the obovately globose bud valvate, 5, 

 spreading and strongly reflexed in anthesis, equal, free, 1.75 



