1832 Leaflbts of Philippine Botaky [Vol. V, AEt. 93 



petiole 5 cm. long, terete, glabrous; leaflets thickly chartaceous, 

 elliptic or the smaller ones obovately elliptic, the larger leaflet 

 nearly 1 dm. long by one half as wide across the middle, 

 apex rounded and minutely emarginate, base obtuse for the 

 terminal ones, the lateral inequilateral and somewhat cuneate, 

 glabrous, the entire margins curved upon the nether side, the 

 smallest leaflets only 2 cm. long; midrib raised beneath, 

 flat on the upper side; lateral nerves 6 to 9 pairs though 

 frequently with secondary intervening ones, divaricate, strict, 

 edge, much less conspicuous, equally plain from both sides, 

 their ends forming a sul)marginal vein 3 mm. from the 

 reticulations conspicuous on both sides. Inflorescence 5 to 8 

 cm. long, ascending, axillary, solitary, glabrous, branched 

 from above the middle; lower branches divaricate, I to 3 

 cm. long or longer, likewise glabrous, similarly rebranched 

 toward the distal end; flowers yellowish or greenish white, 

 subumbellately clustered from the ends of the ultimate branch- 

 lets; pedicels 3 mtu. long, faintly puberulent, subtended by 

 very short similarly puberulent bracts, the branchlets also 

 with bracts; calyx persistent, the 4 sepals united at the base, 

 tjvately elliptic, 1.5 mm. long, glaucous on the dorsal and 

 densely purplish spatted on the inner side except the hyaline 

 margin; petals alternating with them, free and soon falling, 

 4 mm. long, one half as wide, truncate at the base, also 

 purplish except the white margins, obtuse at apex and with an 

 iiiflexed yellow apiculate point, the upper one half strongly re- 

 curved in anthesis, glabrous except the brush of long hairs on the 

 upper side a trifle below the middle; stamens erect, alter- 

 nating, of the same number; filaments 4 ram. long, attached to 

 the base of the ovary, flattened toward the widest basal portion, 

 glabrous; anther ellips .id, 1.75 mm. long, 1 mm. less in width, the 

 basal portion divided, ver-atile, late^-ally dehiscent; ovary 4 -celled, 

 densely velutinous, inserted upon a similarly hairy fleshy rim; 

 style thick, strict, 3 mm. long, glabrous except at the very base. 



Type specimen immber 13216, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

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



This is another shrub from the chaparral summit re- 

 gion of mount Pulgar and collected upon a beautiful May day. 



Quite distinct from E. retium Merr. to which it seems most 

 closely related. 



