Lard 
Marca 27, 1915] Two Henprep Twenty Six New Specres—I 2687 
nective darker brown in the dry state; ovary glabrous and 
green, rugulose when dry, globosely ellipsoid, 3 mm long, 
bearing a 1 mm long style; fruit dull purplish blue, marble 
shaped, 1.25 em in diameter, upon much thickened pedicels. 
Type specimen numbers 12129 for flower and 12293 for 
fruit, A. D. E Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. Giting-giting), Island 
of Sibuyan, March and April respectively, 1910. 
This species was commonly noticed along the wooded 
banks of the Pauala' river at 1000 feet altitude. Named 
with pleasure after Mr. Theodore C. Zschokke, formerly a 
forester of the Philippine service. i 
Not Calophyllum whitfordii Merr. because our leaves are 
more elongated, apex obtusely rounded, with thicker petioles, 
much finer nerves; pedicels slenderer, entirely glabrous, the 
anthers of the larger flowers larger; and fruits apparently 
thicker and entirely globose. 
HERNANDIACEAE 
4 ligera diptera Elm. n. sp. 
Scandent and sprawling; stem 3 cm thick, rebranched 
oward the top; wood very soft and porous, with radial 
lines, whitish, odorless, a trifle sweet to taste; bark black- 
ish brown, smooth or nearly so, green beneath the epidermis, 
dark green and glabrous on the slender branches. Leaves 
alternatingly scattered, trifoliate; petiole frequently inclined 
to twine, 7 to 12 cm long, terete, swollen and somewhat 
curved or twisted at both ends, glabrate; petiolule 1.5 to 3 
em long, also stout and somewhat enlarged at both ends; 
leaflets elliptic or ovately so, varying from 1 to 2 dm long, 
7 to 10 em broad, apex broadly obtuse, base broadly 
rounded, glabrous, rigidly coriaceous, entire, brown on both 
sides when dry, brightly shining on the upper much deep- 
er green surface, conduplicate and tips strongly recurved; 
midrib prominent beneath; lateral nerves 4 to 6 on each 
side, divaricate and ascendingly curved, tips reticulately 
united, cross bars few and reticulations coarse. Flowers not 
seen. Infrutescence terminating the stem and branches, 
paniculately elongated, often 1 m long though frequently 
