Mancn 27, 1915] Two Hunprep Twenty Six New Seecies—1 2675 
larger ones ovately elliptic, occasionally the smaller ones 
broadly lanceolate, edges overlapping in the bud state; 
petals filamentous, 3.5 mm long, glabrous, rigid and leath- 
ery, inserted in a series upon the concrete base of the 
calyx, flattened and gradually tapering from the base to the 
apex, inwardly curved from the base, deep reddish brown 
when dry; stamens many, inserted upon a hairy torus-like 
rim around the ovary, erect; filaments subequal in length, 
slender, pale yellow and glabrous, 1 to 1.5 mm long; an- 
ther usually a trifle longer, doubled and their ends unequal- 
ly terminated at their bases; ovary ellipsoid, 8 mm long, 
densely hairy; style equal in length, terete and glabrous, 
reddish in the dry state, when young crooked or even loop- 
ed, terminated by a large subcapitate equally colored and 
likewise glabrous stigma. 
Type specimen number 12520, A. D. E. Elmer, Magal- 
lanes (Mt. Giting-giting), Island of Sibuyan, May, 1910. 
In well drained soil of a wooded ridged at 5000 feet 
altitude or near the summit base of the central mountain. 
Compare with Aquilaria bancana Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. 
suppl. 895. 
GRAMINEAE 
g] Dendrocalamus merrilliana Elm. n. comb. Gigantochloa 
merrilliana Elm. Leaf. Philip. Bot. 1, 278, 1908. 
This graceful tree-like grass is the same species as 
Dendrocalamus parviflorus Hack. published six months later in 
Philip. Journ. Sci. I, C, 161. 
q / Dinochloa macrocarpa Elm. n. sp. 
Sprawling and scandent; stems several, climbing by loops, 
1.5 cm thick at the base, farther up again as thick, tough, 
terete, smooth and shining, green, nodules not conspicuous 
and 3 dm apart, ultimately numerously rebranched, the 
slender somewhat drooping branchlets usually in small clus- 
ters and forming a tangled mass; stem sheath 1.5 dm long 
at most, tightly enclosing the stem, its apex truncate or 
