Marci 27, 1915] Two Hunprep Twenty Six New Srrecies- I 2673 
Quite distinct from  Gentiana  luzonemsis Merr. based 
upon his number 4558 from mount Data, Ours has a much 
slenderer habit, has more numerous and setaceously pointed 
leaves and with shorter flowers whose calyx segments are 
also more pointed. 
GNETACEAE 
1 a 
Tf Gnetum vinosum Elm. n. sp. 
Small but slender tree; wood without odor or taste; 
bark mottled, smoothish; branches chiefly toward the top, 
divaricate, arising from thickened portions of the stem, crookedly 
and numerously rebranched, the place of branching always 
nodulose; the slender young twigs horizontally spreading or 
drooping, green, glabrous. Leaves opposite, glabrous, subchar- 
taceous, horizontal or descending, shallowly conduplicate on 
the upper shinning deep green surface, much paler beneath, 
curing greenish on both sides, the entire edges finely in- 
volute at least in the dry state, apex abruptly terminating 
into a sharp point, base obtuse, oblongish, the average lam- 
ina 12.5 cm long, 5 cm wide at the middle or across the 
widest portion; petiole 1.5 cm long, glabrous, caniculate, 
quite slender, dark brown when dry, devoid of stipules; 
midrib stout beneath, grooved above, brown in the dry state; 
lateral nerves 7 to 9 pairs, divaricate; their ends interarch- 
ing 5 mm below the edge, other reticulations very obscure. 
Inflorescent spike ascending, mostly solitary, either terminal 
or from the leaf axils, green though brown when dry, gla- 
brous, 5 cm long but longer in the fruiting state and re- 
curved, flower bearing from below the middle. Young fruits 
in whorled clusters, subtended by a verticel of small bracts 
or bract vestiges, sessile and surrounded by a pulverulent or 
granulate rim-like receptacle, ovoidly elongated and sharply 
pointed, the young fruit as well as the old fruit glabrous; 
the mature nuts are ‘ellipsoid, at least 2.5 cm long, smooth 
and shinning purplish or wine red, very pretty. 
Type specimen number 12283, A. D. E. Elmer, Magalla- 
nes (Mt. Giting-giting), Island of Sibuyan, April, 1910, 
Found in moist forested depressions along streamlets 
