Marcu 27, 1915] Two Hunprep Twenty Six New Specizs—I 2603 
Related to yet quite distinct from  Erycibe paniculata 
Roxb. 
L3 Erycibe pararan Elm. n. sp. 
A tree climbing vine; stem 3.5 cm thick, terete, flex- 
ible, circling about its host or support, mainly branched at 
the top; branches widely spreading, the slender free ends 
drooping; wood soft, yellowish, without odor or taste; bark 
yellowish gray and minutely checked on the stem, smooth 
and brown on the branches; twigs tough, terete, the young 
portion reddish brown puberulent, minutely lenticelled. Leaves 
alternate, scattered all along the branchlets, elliptic or ob- 
ovately so, the larger ones 1 dm long and one half as wide, 
frequently much smaller, short acute or obtuse at the apex, 
drying dark blackish brown, margins entire and when dry 
minutely involute in the dry state, drying dark blackish 
brown, glabrous, rigidly coriaceous; midrib conspicuous be- 
neath, minutely grooved above; the 6 primary lateral pairs 
of nerves oblique and rather inconspicuous, reticulations none 
or very few and obscure; petiole 1 cm long, channelled along 
the upper side, glabrate when old. Young infrutescence erect 
from the leaf axils, 3 to 15 cm long, paniculately branched 
from below the middle; branches alternating, rebranched, sub- 
tended at the the base by a thick scar; pedicels less than 
5 mm long, also subtended by bract vestiges, ferrugineus 
puberulent, all the stalks more or less angularly compressed; 
calyx somewhat flattened toward the base, 2.5 mm high, cup 
shaped, imbricate, crisply hairy on the outside, rotund, den- 
sely ciliate around the margins, 5, the inner ones with sub- 
hyaline edges and the overlapping sides nearly hairless; an- 
thers 1.5 mm long, ovoid, notched at the base or point of 
attachment, a trifle curved and rather sharply pointed; ovary 
l mm long, globose, puberulent, the apical portion covered 
with a glabrous and somewhat rugose or obscurely lobed stigma. 
Fruit light green, smooth, ellipsoid. 
Type specimen number 11270, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 
(Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, August, 1909. 
Not quite the same as the preceding species. 
