March 27, 1915] Two Honprep Twenty Six New Sprecies—l 2643 
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. yellow, exceeded by the 8 thick nearly blackish brown 
connective points; pistillate calyx somewhat urn shaped, 3 
mm high; segments 6, imbricate and acute points outwardly 
curved, also glabrous, united toward the base, narrower than 
the staminate sepals; ovary superior, faintly pubescent, flatly 
globose, 1.5 mm in diameter; style 1.25 mm long, 0.75 
mm thick, similarly pubescent, terminated by a circular 
glabrous stigma. 
Type specimen number 10594, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 
(Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, May, 1909. 
Well up in the dense forests at 4000 feet of the southern 
slope of mount Calelan. This rare species was called ''Obog" 
by the native or Bagobo. 
PA -5 Glochidion robinsonii Elm. n. sp. 
Low and widely spreading trees; twigs short and soft 
~ olivaceus pubescent. Leaves alternatingly scattered along the 
slender branchlets, submembranous, curing dull brown on 
the upper surface and glabrous except along the nerves, 
beneath cinereous or tawny canescent, entire, rather abrupt- 
ly acute to acuminate, the smaller ones broadly ovately 
lanceolate, the larger ones oblong, slightly inequilateral, 
base rounded, 1 dm long by 3 cm wide, frequently much 
smaller; midvein rather prominent beneath and cinereous, 
also puberulent on the upper side of the blade; lateral 
nerves 5 to 8 pairs, ascendingly curved, tips obscurely united, 
similarly hairy on both sides, cross bars close and quite 
evident beneath; petiole 3 mm long, cinereous. Flowers dense- 
ly grouped in the leaf axils, the staminate slenderly pedi- 
celled, greenish to yellowish; pedicel of staminate flowers 
5 mm long, slender, finely pubescent; perianth segments 
6, free, in 2 series; outer 3 sepals elliptic, 2.5 mm long 
by 1.75 mm wide at the middle, coriaceous, pubescent on 
the outside, nearly glabrous on the inner surface, flat; the 
inner 3 ovately elliptic and a trifle smaller, only sparingly 
strigose on the outer exposed side; stamens 1 mm long, 
in an erect column; filaments united into a glabrous 0.25 
^ mm long stalk; anthers 0.5 mm long, pale yellow; con- 
_nectives exerted into 3 blunt points 0.25 mm in length; 
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