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Marca 27, 1915] Two Hunprep Twenty Six New Srecies—I 2621 
more or less rugose and the obtuse to obtusely truncate ends 
strongly curved upon the dorsal side, dorsifixed below the 
middle; ovary very flatly conical, glabrous, obscurely 5-ru- 
gose, 4 mm across; styles likewise glabrous, 5 mm long, 5 
in number, somewhat curved, the basal 1.5 mm united, 
bearing minute stigmas; ovules indefinite in each of the 5 
cells. 
Type specimen number 13638, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 
baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Aug- 
ust, 1912, 
Discovered in a deep pocket of a wet ravine on the 
east side of the ridge between Duros and Cawilanan peaks 
at 3500 feet altitude and in the vicinity of the spring. The 
Manobo name is ‘‘Liwoyosan.’’ 
3S Tetracera obliquinervia Elm. n. sp. 
Scandent and sprawling; stem at the top 1.75 cm thick, 
terete, flexible though very tough; the yellowish white slightly 
sweet wood with distinct radial lines; bark gray, scaling in 
thin plates; branches repeatedly branched, the free ends droop- - 
ing; twigs divaricate, rigid and relatively short, the young 
green and glabrous portion turning brown when dry. Leaves 
very slightly roughened on both sides, alternating, the aver- 
age of the larger lamina 13 em long by 7 cm wide across 
the middle, elliptic, broadly obtuse or rounded at the base 
and at the apex or rather short and abrupt, the entire mar- 
gins somewhat curved upon the nether or paler green sur- 
face, curing greenish on the shining upper and brownish on 
the lower sides, frequently the terminal ones much reduced, 
chartaceous, glabrous, nearly flat; midrib very pronounced 
beneath, impressed along the upper side, curing brown and 
in the young state sparsely strigose; lateral nerves 11 to 13 
pairs, very oblique, straight, equally pronounced beneath and 
impressed above, also strigose, tips ascendingly curved and 
terminating in the leaf edges, similar in color to the mid- 
rib when dry and yellowish green when fresh, cross bars 
very obscure; petiole 1 to 1.5 cm long, deeply and widely 
e caniculate, dark brown when dry, ultimately glabrate. Flow- 
ers all gone. Infrutescence terminal or from the uppermost 
