Macon 27, 1915] Two Honprep Twenty Six New Species —I 2611 
ted, persistent, erect, olivaceus hairy; buds ovoid, 2.5 em 
long, ashy gray pubescent; outer sepals 2 em long by 1.5 
em wide at the middle, broadly elliptic or more ovately 
elliptic, rigid, yellowish gray pubescent on the outer sides, 
glabrous on the inner sides, ultimately spreading, imbricate; 
the inner of the 5 segments narrower and » trifle longer, 
margins thin and folded upon the ventral side; petals 5, 
snow white, 5 to 6 em long, averaging 2 em in width above 
the middle, obovately oblong, radially spreading, caducous, 
curing reddish brown, glabrous; stamens in 2 series, very 
numerous, dehiscing by apical pores; the radially spreading 
ones entire, ochroleucus, with a 2.5 mm long somewhat com- 
pressed and glabrous filament, its linear anther 6 to 7 mm 
long by 1 mm wide; the erect or inner ones similar except 
auther nearly twice as long and connective purplish when 
fresh; ovary nearly 1 cm long, ovoid, fluted, glabrous, with 
about a dozen of strongly recurved 1 cm long very linear 
and slenderly pointed stigmas. 
Type specimen number 13564, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 
baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Aug- 
ust, 1912. 
Only observed on the summit of Duros peak at 4000 
feet elevation. All people of the Philippines call all species 
of Dillenia 'Catmon." The Bagobos in the higher altitudes 
of mount Apo occasionally tapped these trees for water. It 
had a distinct sulphur taste but otherwise was harmless. 
Distinct from Dillenia bolsteri Merr. of the Surigao prov- 
ince. 
"T Dillenia mindanaensis Elm. n. sp. 
Tree, with a 3 dm thick and 8 m long stem; wood 
soft, odorless and nearly tasteless, sappy white; bark brown 
and gray mottled, thinly checked and scaling in small plates; 
main branches arising from the middle, slightly ascending, 
crooked, sparingly rebranched; twigs rigid, suberect, terete, 
1.5 cm thick. Leaves ascending or horizontally spreading, 
chartaceous, alternatingly scattered, lucid and brighter green 
above, glabrous, curing grayish brown, oblong, 4 to 7 dm 
lcng without the stalk, 2 to 2.5 cm wide across the widest 
