124 MERRILL. 



basal portion inflated, the margins just above the carpels adherent into 

 a narrow tube, above entirely free. Stamens 10, alternating long and 

 short, the filaments some^Adlat pubescent, the longer ones 4 mm, the 

 shorter 1 mm in length. Carpels 1, ovoid, pubescent; style 1.5 mm long, 

 slightly pubescent. Follicle firmly coriaceous, ellipsoid, inflated, 2.5 cm 

 long, outside glabrous, shining, faintly diagonally reticulate-striate, 

 inside pubescent, tbe stipe very short. 



Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Port Banga, For. Bur. dlSo Whit ford tC- 

 Hutchinson, January, 1!H),S, in dijiterocarp forests at an altittide of about 20 m. 



10. Connarus subinaequifolius Elm. Leafl. Philip. Bot. 1 (1908) 297. 



Scandeus; foliis usque ad 35 cm longis, imparipinnatis, foliolis 7, 

 cireiter 12 cm longis, 4.5 cm latis, oblongis, breviter abrupte acuminatis, 

 basi rotundatis, firmiter membranaceis vel subcoriaceis, supra glahris, 

 nitidis, subtus plus minus ferrugineo-pubescentibus, nervis utrinque 4 

 ad 6, prominentibus. Folliculis sublignosis, obovoideis, compressis, 5 cm 

 longis, 3.5 cm latis, cireiter 2.5 cm crassis, extus plus minus ferrugineo- 

 tomentosis, subglabrescentibus, vix striatis, intus f errugineo-tomeutosis ; 

 seminibus oblongis, basi arillatis. 



The type of this species is Elmer 9.^22 from ISIount Banajao, Province of 

 Tayabas, Luzon, which I have not seen. Elmer dSJ{l from the same locality is 

 referable here, and also Elmer 6208 from Sablan, Province of Benguet, Luzon, the 

 latter being mentioned in the original description but without citation of the 

 number. The flowers are unknown. 



Endemic. 



2. ELLIPANTHUS Hook. f. 



1. Petioles 10 to 15 mm long, the leaf-base subacute, not peltate.... 1. E. luzo)iien.si.s 



1. Petioles 3 to 4 mm long, the leaf-base broad, rounded or subcordate, minutely 



peltate 2. E. mindanaenfti.'i 



1. Ellipanthus luzoniensis Vid. Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (18SG) 104; INIcrr. in 

 Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 61. 



E. helferi Vid. Sinopsis Atlas (1883) t. 39, f. B, non Hook. f. 



E. cffZop/i7/W«s F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 351 (probably ). non Kurz. 



E. tomentosus F.-Vill. 1. c, non Kurz. 



Luzon, Province of Rizal, For. Bur. 1998, 2900, 21.'tl Ahcrn's collector: 

 Province of Bulacan, For. Bur. 7)^6 Curran, For. Bur. 12305 Maule: Province of 

 Bataan, For. Bur. 2200, 2239 Meyer, Whitford 1051, For. Bur. 6//07 Curran, For. 

 Bur. 1J,26, 1505 Ahem' s collector, Elmer 6692, 6883, 6889, For. Bur. 812, IT ',2, 

 1909, 207J,, 2101, 2926 Borden. Leyte, Elmer 116.',. 



Endemic. 



2. Ellipanthus mindanaensis sj). nov. 



Arbor ])arva, ramulis jiiiiioi'ihiis rru(tilni>t|iit' rmnigineo-pubescenti- 

 bus; foliis ol)longo-elii])ticis vel ovato-ellipticis, subcoriaceis, usque ad. 14 

 cm longis, apiee acuminatis, basi late rotundatis vel leviter cordatis, levis- 

 sime peltatis, integris, nitidis, supra glalms vel ad uervos minute pubes- 

 centibus, subtus ad costam nervosque pubcscentibus, nervis 7 vel 8 utrin- 

 que; folliculis solitaries longe pedicellatis, compressis, 3 cm longis, sub- 

 falcatis, acuminato-rostratis. 



