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Maron 27, 1915] Two Honprep Twenty Six New Speciss—I 2645 
short pedicelled; perianth segments subequal, 3 mm long, 
the larger ones 1.5 mm wide, all more or less united at 
the base, oblong, with acutish tips, the apical portion re- 
curved in anthesis, in the early state imbricate, in 2 series, 
the outer or basal ones usually larger; globose ovary puber- 
ulent, finally glabrous; style very short and thick, ter- 
minated into several apiculate teeth; fruits compressed globose, 
glabrous, turning reddish, 7.5 mm across, upon 3 mm long 
glabrous stalks, apiculately pointed at. the apical center. 
Type specimen number 11116, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 
(Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, July, 1909. 
Collected along a streamlet of light woods in a depres- 
sion of the cogon formation at 1000 feet altitude. 
: Very near to Glochidion angulatum C. B. Rob. but en- 
tirely glabrous, with leaves more nerved and fruits smaller. 
Me 7S Homalanthus surigaoense Elm. n. sp. 
A crooked shrub-like tree; stem 15 em thick, 7 m high, 
terete, chiefly branched toward the top and forming a flat 
crown; wood pulpy, white, nearly odorless and tasteless; bark 
smooth and grayish white blotched; main branches crooked- 
ly rebranched; twigs numerous, green, glabrous, ascendingly 
curved, shining, roughened by the light gray leaf scars, 
with transverse markings. Leaves alternate, usually crowded 
toward the distal ends of the branchlets, subcoriaceous, 
glaucous white beneath, glabrous, pale green and shining 
above, entire, subpendant, when dry brown above and glau- 
cous brown beneath, ovately orbicular, greatly varying in 
size, apex rounded or only obscurely obtuse, base truncately 
rounded, the larger ones 13 cm across either way, most of 
them 9 cm large only, peltate from the basal one third; 
petiole yellowish, green or reddish on the exposed side, 
varying from 5 cm to 2 dm long, terete, glabrous, at the 
distal end provided with a pair of glaucous green leathery 
and irregularly margined appendages; main nerve from the 
petiole to the apex of the leaf straight and prominent be- 
! neath, in the dry state glaucous dark brown; lateral ones . 
dt above the petiole 7 to 10 pairs, suboblique, nearly straight, 
the apical ones more numerous and obscure, the basal pair 
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