Ai'ousT 18, 1913) ForR Score of New Fi.ant? 1841? 



sepals. lo;tili<a(ial, the relativ<^Iy thin partitions fo-raing a 

 central triangular column; s^eds irregularly triangular, J 5 

 cm. across or long, musty hrown when (hy, attached to the 

 central placenta hy the circular lighter brown base, usually 

 5 in each cell. 



Type specimen numhpr 12822, A. D. K. Elmer, Pu«'rto 

 Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, March, 19ll. 



Discovered upon a forested ridge at 1000 feet altitude, 

 in well drained red soil covered with dry foliage. Quite rare! 



Schitna pulgarensis Elm. n. sp. 



Interlaced shrub; ultimate branchlets numerous, suberect, 

 terete, glabrous, roughened by the leaf scars. Leaves alt«r- 

 natingly crowded toward the ends of the twig«, ascending, 

 glabrous, chartaceous, couduplicate and usually recurved, el lip- 

 tically oblong, the average blades 6 cm. long by orie half 

 as wide across the middle, apex usually obtuse to acute, 

 occasionally rounded or acuminate, base broadly obtuse to 

 rounded and entire, the margins otherwise crenately serrate; 

 mid vein stout beneath, flat on the upper side, the 6 to 9 

 lateral ones relatively very faint, barely distinguishable from 

 the minute yet very evident reticulations of both sides; pet- 

 iole stout, less than 1 cm. long, compressed or broadly 

 flattened on he upper side, glabrous, leaving large scars 

 after falling; bud bract 5 mm. long, conically pointed, densely 

 cinereous. Flowers usually solitary from the upper leaf axils; 

 pedicels also glabrous, erect or ascending, stout, 1 to 1.5 

 cm long, thickened at the distal end; calyx very thick and 

 rigid, cupular, glabrous on the outside, densely ciliate along 

 the margins, appressed canescent on the inner side toward 

 the base, oval, more or less 2.5 mm. across, imbricate, broadly 

 rounded; petals 5, broadly obovate or subrotund, abruptly 

 narrowed or clawed at the base, united and forming a bhort 

 thick tube at the base, puberulent on the outside of the 

 tube, otherwise glabrous with age or only ciliate along the 

 margins, quite veiny; filaments 2 to 4 mm. long, fleshy, terete, 

 protniscuouslj' inserted upon the thickened portion near the 

 corolla orifice, the basal part glabrous but grayish toward 

 the distal end; anther broadly elliptic, 1.5 mm. long, notched 



