loOO I^EAFI.ETS OF PhIIJPPINE BoTANY [VoL. V, ArT, 9ii 



p)rtion of the corolla, at least 1 mm. long; anther acimiinate, 

 cotnpressed, the connective thick and reddish brown, the 

 lateral cell walls liyaline after anthesis, basifixed, the upper 

 or terminal one 1.25 mm. long, the lower or ventral one a 

 trifle shorter; ovary glabrouR, 1.25 mm. wide, much flatten- 

 ed, the edges obs^curely S-pointed or merely rugulose, tapering 

 into a very short point. 



Type specimen numl>er 12839, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

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



Found in gravelly soil picked between bowlders along a 

 deni^ely wooded .stream at 1500 feet altitude. 



Alsodeia formicaria Elm. n. sp. 



A Hiender erect tree; stem 1 dm. thick, terete, branched 

 above the middle, 8 m. high; branches laxly rebranched, 

 forming a loosely spreading crown; wood qiute heavy and 

 hard, ochraleucus especially the central portion, odorless and 

 without taste; bark white except the smooth grayish epider- 

 mis; the green portion of the slender twigs glabrous. Leaves 

 alternatiiigly scattered, thickly coriaceous descending, nearly 

 flat, much deeper green on the upper surface, glabrous, curing 

 eqiially dull brown on both sides, the abrupt sharply acu- 

 minate point recurved, obtuse or obtusely rounded at base, 

 the young ones very pale green, entire, the larger lamina 15 

 era. long by nearly 5 cm. wide above the middle, usually 

 obovately oblong though frequently merely oblong, the smaller 

 leaves broadly oblanceolate; the midrib quite prominent be- 

 neath and fluted along the upper side; the lateral nerves 5 

 to 8 on each side, likewise conspicuous beneath, strongly 

 curved from the base, tips reticulately united, the reticulations 

 quite evident from beneath; petiole 5 to 8 mm. long, gla- 

 brous, blackish when dry. Inflorescence horizontal, spreading 

 from the leaf axils or from their scars; the spikes usually 

 solitary, 1 to 2 cm. hmg, short bracteolate, very short and 

 few V)rarK;hed or not at all, all the stalks thick and rigid, 

 subglabrous; the small sessile deflexed flowers pale green; 

 sepals 5, slightly imbricate, ovately elliptic, 1.5 mm. long, 

 less than 1 mm. in width, leathery and quite rigid, obtuse 

 at apex, united at the base, puberulent on the outside only; 



