AncrsT IS, 1913] FocR Scork ok Nkw Pi ants 1841 



portion of the ovary; tihirueiits very unequal in length, 

 nearly free, glabrous, curvingly interlaced, subterete and nar 

 rowly linear; the 4 or 5 longer filaments 1.5 to 2 cm. long, 

 the distal one half conspicuously glandular, the shorter fila- 

 ments eglandular; anther basifixed, linearly oblong, 2 mm. 

 long; ovary 4.5 mm. long, ellips(>i<l, slightly rugose, longitu- 

 dinally, densely tawny pubescent; style glabrous, curved, 2.5 cm. 

 long, clavately linear toward the distal flavo-virens colored 

 stigmatic end, spirally striate at about the middle and above it. 



Type specimen number 12841, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

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



Discovered in hxtr^e or sand stony soil of a steep densely 

 wooded stream depression at 1500 feet altitude. Named with 

 pleasure after Mr. J. Louis Pcrrin, collector of cu««toms for the 

 port of Balabac. 



SYMPLOCACEAE 

 Symplocos pulsfarensis Elm, n. sp. 



A medium sized tree; stem terete, 4 dm. thick, 12 m. 

 high, its main branches arising from above the midUe; wood 

 cremeus especially the central mass, odorless and tasteless, 

 moderately soft; bark brown to gray, smooth or only mi- 

 nutely checked, whitish on the inner side, cremeus in the 

 midtlie region; the branches numerously rebranched; twigs lax, 

 asceniHng, glabrous, greenish, forming dense masses, relatively 

 short. Leaves horizontal, folded upon the darker green and 

 sublucid upper surface, strongly recurved at their acute to 

 acuminate points, cuneate or narrowly obscure at base, entire, 

 glabrous, curing equally dull green on both sides, broadly 

 oblanceolate, alternate, 8 cm. long by 3 cm. wide a trifle 

 above the middle, occasionally much smaller, copious; midrib 

 ridged beneath, finely grooved above, glabrous; the 7 to 9 lat- 

 eral pairs relatively very obscure, divaricate, the tips much 

 ascending and archingly recurved, the few reticulations not 

 very evident; petiole 1 cm. long, flattened and grooved along 

 the upper side, greenish brown in the dry state, also glab- 

 rous, Infrutescence chiefly from the uppermost leaf axils, 

 ascendingly spreading, less than 5 cm. long, occasionally short 



