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fulvus, stout, leaving scars after falling. Racemose panicle 

 erect, terminal, 3 cm. long and about as wide, branched 

 from below the middle, exceeded by the subtending leaves; 

 branchlets striate, the lower ones angular and again rebranched, 

 sparsely rufous hairy, the strict pedicels at least 5 mm. long 

 and subtended by caducous bracteoles; calyx of 5 distinct 

 sepals, thick, ovately acute, bristly hairy on the back, 2.5 

 mm. long by 1 mm. less in width; sepals also 5, alterna- 

 ting with the sepals, caducous, elongated, glabrous, 6 mm. 

 long, less than one third as wide, reflexed in anthesis, ob- 

 tuse at apex, 3-veined but the middle one stouter; stamens 

 also 5, erect, ea-ily detached; filaments nearly 3 mm. long, 

 subcompressed, smooth; anther broadly sagittate, flattened, 

 basifixed, less than 1 mm. long; ovary ellipsoid, densely 

 fulvus hairy, relatively long, with a very short and thick 

 style; stigtna obscurely 3 to 5-lobed; cells 1 or 2, the 

 ovules attached laterally along the central placenta when 2 

 celled. 



Type specimen number 13188, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

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



Discovered upon the rocky summit of of the mountain 

 after which it is named, forming with numerous other 

 shrubby species a dense blanket of chaparral. 



As far as our Philippine material is concerned it is most 

 closely related to P. odoratum Merr. 



PROTEACEAE 

 Helicia artocarpoides Elm. n. sp. 



A slender suberect tree-like shrub; stem 7 cm. thick, 

 5 m. high, more or less crooked, unbranched, terete; wood 

 moderately soft, dingy white, odorless and without taste, with 

 conspicuous radial lines; bark dull dirty brown, smooth or 

 minutely checked, isabellinus except the epidermis. Leaves 

 alternate, crowded at the top; petiole green, leaving large 

 scars after falling, terete, rigid, very thick at the base, 1 

 to 2 dm. long, strict, the swollen ba-al portion curved, with 

 a testaceus bloom; blades chartaceous, chiefly horizontally 

 spreading, averaging 9 dm. in length, oddly pinnate, flat 



