1038 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BorANY [Vor. III, Arr. 54 
tube near the base, more or less thickened toward the throat; 
segments 6, the triangular acuminate points gradually recurved, 
the upper side with a retrose projection at the base of the 
thickened angular portion, nearly 7 mm. long; anthers 6, in- 
serted upon the throat, alternating with the segments; glabrous 
filaments flat, 0.5 mm. long, nearly 3 mm. long, attached 
on the back a trifle below the middle; style glabrous, filiform 
except the enlarged apical portion which is either entire or 
with a few shallow stigmatic lobes; fruit ovoidly globose or el- 
lipsoid, 1 cm. long, juicy, sweet, yellowish red, 6-seeded; seeds 
3.5 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide across the base, convex on the 
back, sides flat, base rounded, apex acutish. 
Type specimen 11467," A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, May, 
1910. 
Several clusters of these were discovered upon shrubberies 
in a dry hot sand gravelly flat along the Pauala river at 
750 feet. All were attached to within a few feet from the 
ground. Dedicated to the author of the genus, Dr. Odoardo 
Beccari. 
This is the first addition to the hitherto monotypic genus 
founded upon the Celebese species, M. selebicum Bece. 
HYDNOPHYTUM Jack. 
Hydnophytum angustifolium Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 
III; 162, 1908. 
Based on Mrs. Clemen’s specimens from lake  Lanao, 
central Mindanao. Its range is mostly in the southern islands, 
although it is very common in the subalpine woods of Si- 
buyan. My specimens distributed under 12344 are typical, 
and the following notes are taken from the. field label: — 
Epiphytie and shrubby, upon small stems and larger branch- 
es of trees; the honey-combed tuber is 5 dm. across, gray, 
smooth, more or less rugose or shallowly lobed; stems several, 
3 to 5 dm. long, branched from near the base, terete, flex- 
ible, very smooth. Leaves ascending or horizontal, flat, slightly 
reeurved, paler green beneath, quite brittle. Flowers in ses- 
sile axillary clusters; calyx pale green, the other parts white, 
