904 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BoTANY [Vor. III, Arr. 51 
ish borders, 5, united at the base, 5 mm. long, oblong, round- 
ed at apex, hairy on the back; petals also 5, alternating 
with the outer series of the perianth, less than one half as 
long, hyaline, truncately winged at the apex, the basal por- 
tion clawed; ovary disk with a thick whitish crenately lobed 
margin; stamens 5 or 6, suberect; filaments whitish, 1 mm. 
long, free, glabrous; anthers basifixed, 0.33 mm. high, 0.5 
mm. wide, laterally dehiscing; style erect, 1 mm. long, false- 
ly united into 3 parts; pistillate flowers upon 1 cm. long 
glabrous pedicels which are more or less thickened toward 
the apex; calyx more delicate and less pubescent; petals notched, 
the apical lobes fimbriate; stamens entirely lacking; ovary gla- 
brous, ovoid, 1.5 mm. long, terminated by 3 short doubly 
divided processes bearing whitish capitate stigmas, 3-celled; 
fruits with 6 seeds, pendulous upon slender stalks, the base 
somewhat sunken and with the perianth segments persistent, 
similarly flattened at both ends, greenish white, 2.5 cm. wide, 
1.5 em. high, dehiscing along both sutures. 
Type specimen 12141, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, April, 
1910. 
This handsome tree-like undershrub was commonly seen 
in woods of stony or gravelly soil along the Pauala river 
from 750 to 1250 feet altitude. 
Actephila magnifolia Elm. n. sp. 
Low, erect, normally unbranched shrub; stem more or 
less crooked, 5 dm. to 1 m. in height, 2 em. thick, terete, 
quite rigid; wood odorless and tasteless, greenish white, rather 
tough; bark dull brown, smooth or only sparingly lenticelled. 
Leaves few at the top, horizontally spreading, coriaceous, flat, 
a trifle paler green beneath, glabrous, entire, drying green, 
diverse in size, sharply acute to acuminate, base obtuse or 
subrounded, the larger blades 3.5 dm. long, 1.5 dm. wide 
across the middle, oblong, alternate or subopposite; midvein 
prominently raised beneath, scurfy toward the base, brown 
in the dry state; lateral nerves 9 to 11 on each side, as- 
eendingly arched, united with coarse reticulations, smooth and 
brown in the dry state; petiole 3 to 7 cm. long, scurty 
