August 18, 1013] Fova Score of New Plants 1825 



mm. long, I mm. less in width, glabrous, snbcoriaceous or 

 submembranous, base truncate, apex obtuse, caducous, oblong; 

 stamens opposite them, 5; filaments 1.5 mm. long, glabrous, 

 filiform; the thick dark reddish brown 5 appendages erect 

 and nearly free, glabrous, the 0.75 mm. long truncately 

 pointed segments alternating with the fertile stainens and 

 inserted between the petal:^; anthers compressed, 0.5 mm. 

 long, ovately elliptic, light yellow, obscurely indented at the 

 base, subversatile; ovary less than 1 mm. in length, fusi- 

 form, glabrous Fruit ellipsoid, 2.5 cm. long, yellowish 

 green, 1 -celled and 1 -seeded. 



Type specimen number 12691, A. D. E. Elmer, Brooks 

 Point (Addison Peak), Palawan, February, 1911. 



Climbing upon small trees along a wooded rivulet of 

 wet sand gravelly soil near the beach. Called "Aratig" by 

 the Tagbanuas. 



Judging from description it differs in a number of de- 

 tails from both 0. javanica Miq. and 0. ainantacea Roxb. 



PITTOSPORACEAE 

 Pittosporum pulgarense Elm. n. sp. 



Low shrub, with rigid branches; twigs terete, dull brown 

 and usually with minute light gray lenticels, the young por- 

 tion fulvus hairy, usually branched in subwhorls. Leaves 

 terminally crowded, copious, mainly at the point of branch- 

 ing, ascending or horizontal, very unequal in size, thickly 

 coriaceous, curing blackish, glabrous on the upper minutely 

 rugose surface, the nether smooth surface pale fulvus, lanose 

 in the young state but soon wearing glabrous, margin entire and 

 somewhat curved upon the under side, flat or only the 

 sharply acute to acuminate point recurved, base cuneate or 

 obtuse, obovately elongated or broadly oblanceolate, the 

 larger ones 8 cm. long by 2 5 cm. wide above the middle, 

 frequently much smaller, alternate or subopposite; midvein 

 glabrous on both sides in the old leaves, prominent beneath 

 and impressed above; the lateral 6 pairs ascendingly curved, 

 their tips obscurely united, not very evident even from below, 

 reticulations obsolete; petiole 5 mm. long, at first densely 



