August 18, 1913) Four Scorh of Nkw Plants 1829 



filaments 1.25 ram. long, slightly expaiuled and compressed 

 toward the base, glabrous; anther greenish white, oval, 0.33 

 to 0.5 mm. long, compressed; pistil short, gradually' tapering 

 from the puberulent basal portion to the 2-lobuIate stigma; 

 ovary disk yellow. 



Type specimen number 12891, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

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



Gathered from the tops of forest trees in a fertile flat 

 along the trail to Napsan at about 750 feet elevation. 



Flowers at least distinct from 453 Cuming or the type 

 sheet of Z. cumingiana Merr. 



Ventilago palawanensis Elm. n. sp. 



A lofty tree climber; stem terete, 5 cm. thick, l)end- 

 able, branched toward the top; wood porous, soft, yellowish 

 especially the central mass, odorless, a trifle sweet to taste; 

 bark relatively thick, whitish except the dull brown or gray 

 smooth or shallowly checked surface; twigs greenish, lax, 

 profuse, wiry, the young tips finely cinereous. Leaves alter- 

 nate, occasionally subopposite, descending, nearly flat, diverse 

 in size, subchartaceous, the nether side when young subci- 

 nereous, ultimately glabrous, greenish brown in the dry state, 

 entire, the apex obtusely rounded and obscurely emarginate 

 at the point, base similarly pointed or very short subpan- 

 durate, lucid above even when dry, the larger ones 4.5 cm. 

 wide across the middle, 12 cm. long, oblong, frequently 

 much smaller; old petioles glabrous, less than 5 mm. long, 

 relatively thick and widely grooved along the upper side; 

 midrib quite conspicuous on both side, likewise glabrous in 

 the mature leaves; the 5 to 7 lateral nerves ascendingly 

 curved, equally visible from both sides, tips running parallel 

 with the leaf margins, reticulations minute and relatively 

 very evident from both sides. Panicles few, 2 or more dm. 

 long, terminal, slenderly though sparingly branched, subtended 

 by small leaves or mere foliaceous bracts; the branchlets 

 fulvus or cinereous, the smaller or ultimate ones unbranch- 

 ed, very flexible; flowers with a faint agreeable odor, in dense 

 glomerules, alternatingly scattered all along; pedicels very 

 short, cinereous, subtended by bract vestiges; calyx shallowly 



