AtTGUST 18, 1913] FocR Score ok New Plants 183^ 



loDg, erect, 5 in number althougli altern.ating with these are 

 much reduced linear laminae; anther 1 mm. long, triangular, 

 faintly mucronate at apex, basifixed, opening laterally from the 

 base; ovary 3.5 mm. wide, flatly globose, densely hirsute; 

 style about as long and glabrous, gradually tapering from base 

 toward apex; ovules 5, suhpendant from a central placenta. 



Type specimen number 12824, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

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



In good well drained soil of a forested ridge at 1000 

 feet altitude. Named after Dr. F. W. Foximrthy who ha? 

 made one of the first exploration trips to Palawan island. 



SIMARUBACEAE 

 Picrasma philippinensis Elm. n. sp. 



A small erect tree; stem terete, 2 dm. thick, 8 m. high, 

 its main branches arising fi'ora the middle; wood quite soft, 

 bitter, odorless, light, dingy white; bark grayish or yellow- 

 ish white mottled, cremeus except the smooth epidermis; 

 main branches ascending, numerously rebranched, the branch- 

 lets very lax and nearly castaneus. Leaves ascending or hor- 

 izontal, alternate, 5 foliate, the 3 to 5 cm. long petiole as 

 well as the slightly shorter rachis terete and glabrous; pet- 

 iole less than 5 mm. long for the lateral ones, the terminal one 

 2 cm. in length, glabrous and in the dry state dark red- 

 dish brown especially at the end and base; stipule glabrous, 

 green, broadly rounded, deciduous; leaflets oblong or the 

 smaller ones broadly lanceolate, submembranous, very dark 

 yet shining green above, glabrous, entire or undulate toward 

 apex, much paler or relatively yellowish green beneath, nearly 

 flat, the abrupt acuminate apex recurved, base obtu.sely rounded 

 or cuneate for the terminal leaflet, the lower pair usually 

 smaller and the whole lower leaves reduced, 4 by 10 cm. 

 in size for the larger ones, curing unequally avellaneus; mid- 

 rib conspicuous beneath, with 5 to 7 ascendingly curved 

 lateral pairs of nerves, reticulations obscure. Inflorescence 

 ascending from the terminal leaf axils, the peduncle exceed- 

 ing the petiole, lax, deep green, glabrous, 1 to 2 dm, long, 

 branched from the middle, less in width, distichously branch- 



