Makon 27, 1915) Two Hunprep Twenty Six New Specres—I 2639 
at the middle, 2 to 3 dm long, both sides dull greenish 
brown in the dry state; midrib pale green, very prominent 
beneath, yellowish brown when dry, puberulent; lateral 
nerves 9 to 13 pairs, much ascendingly curved, tips well 
extending toward the apex, similar in prominence and color 
and vestiture, cross bars numerous and rather distinct be- 
neath; petiole averaging 1 dm long, stout, subterete, prom- 
inently grooved along the upper side, ultimately glabrate, 
expanded at the base, with a pair or more of yellowish 
gray pulverulent excrescences along the upper edge or just 
below the leaf margins. Inflorescent spike ascending, usually 
solitary from the leaf axils, striate, puberulent or short 
and densely pubescent, gray when dry, deep green in the 
fresh state, 3 to 4 dm long, with dense sessile clusters of 
flowers from near the base; flowers pale or greenish yellow, 
caducous, odorless; staminate flowers in woolly sessile clus- 
e ters, slightly enlarged at the top; pedicels 5 to7 mm long, 
very slender and flexuous, minutely pubescent, becoming 
detached at the articulate point or 1 mm from the base; 
this basal portion persistent and subtended by short similar- 
ly pubescent bracts; perianth 2.5 mm long, oblong, membra- 
nous, twistingly spreading, puberulent or short pubescent on 
the lower sides, 3-segmented, nearly free; filaments averag- 
ing 1 mm long, thread-like, hyaline, glabrous, surrounded 
at the base by dense hairs; anthers persistent, 10 to 15, 
apparently lobed from the apex toward the base, ie 25 to 
0.83 mm long. Capsules not known. 
Type specimen number 13872, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 
baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Sept- 
ember, 1912, 
Gathered in rich ground of secondary woods among 
hemp fields along the Minusuang river at 500 feet above 
the sea. The Manobo name is ''Balong-sogay."' 
Very closely related to Claozylon arboreum Elm. from 
Leyte, but our leaves are different in shape especially so 
towards the base. : 
7”  Cyclostemon incarnata Elm. n. sp. 
A slender and erect tree; stem terete, 1.5 dm thick, 
10 m high, chiefly branched toward the top; branches 
de 
