AuGDsT 18, 1913] Four Score of New Plants 1831 



sides, deep reddish brown; lateral nerves relatively faint, 6 

 to 8 pairs, ascending, strict, tips archingly united 5 mm. 

 below the edge of the leaf and again minutely united near 

 the margins, reticulations more evident on the upper surface; 

 petiole 5 to 8 ram. long, glabrous, dark, reddish brown, 

 gradually extended into the lamina; bud bract similarly 

 colored, compressed, I cm. long; buds ovately conical; calyx 

 a trifle less than 1 cm. long, deeply campanulate in full 

 flower, coriaceous, glabrous, about 6 mm. thick, 6-seginented; 

 the lobes are triangularly acute to acuminate, slightly reflexed 

 in anthesis, about one half the length of the calyx; petals 

 6 mm. long, also glabrous, membranous, alternating and inserted 

 upon the throat of the calyx, segments upon a flattened 

 2.5 mm. long claw; the expanded portion triangular in out- 

 line, the sagittate lobes very long and usually the terminal 

 portion refolded upon the ventral side, all the margins 

 very irregularly fimbriate, folded upon the upper side; stamens 

 iO, alternatingly inserted upon the bass of the sepals and 

 petals; filaments 3 to 4 mm. long, erect, glabrous, gradually 

 tapering from the much compressed base toward apex; an- 

 ther ovoid, rather sharply pointed, 1 mm. long, auriculate 

 at the base, basifixed, opening along the dorsal edge; ovary 

 1-celled, apparently imbedded, cup .shaped at the apex and 

 with about 10 round and fle.shy divisions; style also glabrous, 

 very thick, 3 mm. long, terete, terminated b- a flattened 

 circular stigma; ovules several, subpendant from a central 

 placenta. 



Type specimen number 12828, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

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



Discovered in gravelly soil of the wooded Iwahig river banks 

 at 750 feet altitude. 



Very close to but not identical with S. mindanaensis Merr. 



RUTACEAE 

 Evodia pulgarensis Elm. n. sp. 



Shrubby; twig glabrous, greenish, angularly compressed, 

 rebranched from the leaf axils. Leaves opposite, ascending, 

 15 dm. long or the uppermost ones much smaller, 3-foliate; 



