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Marcu 27, 1915] Two Hunprep Twenry Six New Spkciks—I 2609 
larger leaflets whose ends are acute, usually somewhat in- 
equilateral toward the rounded and suboblique base, entire 
except the few very blunt crenate teeth, chartaceous in 
texture, curing greenish brown on both sides; midrib slightly 
hairy along the upper obscurely depressed side, prominent 
beneath and reddish brown when dry at least, also a trifle 
hairy toward the base; lateral nerves 8 to 5 on each side, 
obscure, strict and divaricate, reticulately forked and united 
toward the distal ends. Flowering spikes arising from the 
terminal leaf axils, very scarce, 1 to 1.5 cm long, fragile, 
flower bearing from below the middle or from near the base; 
peduncle and rachis subcinereous or puberulent, subtended 
by stipular bracts, turning nearly black while drying; flower 
odorless, pale ruber red even in the bud state, deciduous; 
pedicels 1.5 mm long, puberulent, subtended by minute 
bracts; bract subpersistent, 0.75 mm long, rather narrow and 
sharply pointed, short pubescent on the back; buds globose, 
less than 1 mm in diameter; calyx 4-segmented, united at 
the base; segments 1 mm long, submembranous except along 
the middle region, ovately, oblong, glabrous or minutely 
ciliate along the subhyaline margins and on the dorsal side 
along the midrib, subpersistent; petals 4, alternating with 
the calyx segments, free, deciduous, 1.25 mm long by 1 mm 
wide across the middle, elliptic, membranous and with hya- 
line sides; fertile stamens 8, surrounding a series of 4 glan- 
dular staminodes; filaments in the young state 1 mm long, 
glabrous, subterete; anthers 0.5 mm long and fully as 
broad, basifixed, broadly notched at the apex or even lobulate; 
ovary conically elongated, woolly hairy, terminated by a 
2-lobed subsessile glabrous stigma. 
Type specimen number 13701, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 
baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Sept- 
ember, 1912. 
Discovered this very small leafed species on a steep 
slope of mixed woods of a wind swept ridge of mount 
Urdaneta at 5750 feet elevation. According to my Manobo 
companion its vernacular name is ''Calilan" or “Calion.” 
