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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 somewhat pubescent, the longer ones 4 mm, the 
shorter 1 mm in length. Carpels 1, ovoid, pubescent; style 1.5 mm long, 
slightly pubescent. Follicle firndy coriaceous, ellipsoid, inflated, 2.5 cm 
long, outside glabrous, shining, faintly diagonally reticulate-striate, 
inside pubescent, the stipe very short. 
Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Port Banga, For. Bur. 9185 Whitford <£- 
Hutchinson, January, 1908, in dipterocarp forests at an altitude of about 20 m. 
10. Connarus subinaequifolius Elm. Leaf!. Philip. Bot. 1 (1908) 297. 
Scandens; foliis usque ad 35 cm longis, imparipinnatis, foliolis 7, 
circiter 12 cm longis, 4.5 cm latis, oblongis, breviter abrupte acuminatis, 
basi rotundatis, firmiter membranaceis vel subcoriaceis, supra glabris, 
nitidis, subtus plus minus ferrugineo-pubescentibus, nervis utrinque 4 
ad 6, prominentibus. Folliculis sublignosis, obovoideis, compressis, 5>cm 
longis, 3.5 cm latis, circiter 2.5 cm crassis, extus plus minus ferrugineo- 
tomentosis, subglabrescentibus, vix striatis, intus f errugineo-tomentosis ; 
sqminibus oblongis, basi arillatis. 
The type of this species is Elmer 9422 from Mount Banajao, Province of 
Tayabas, Luzon, which I have not seen. Elmer 9341 from the same locality is 
referable here, and also Elmer 620S 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. 
I. Petioles 10 to 15 mm long, the leaf-base subacute, not peltate.... 1. E. luzoniensis 
1. Petioles 3 to 4 mm long, the leaf-base broad, rounded or subcordate, minutely 
peltate 2. E. mindanaensis 
1. Ellipanthus luzoniensis Vid. Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 104; Merr. in 
Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 61. 
E. helferi Vid. Sinopsis Atlas (1883) t. 39, f. B, non Hook. f. 
E. calophyllus 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, 2141 Ahern’s collector: 
Province of Bulacan, For. Bur. 7 446 Curran, For. Bur. 12305 Maule : Province of 
Bataan, For. Bur. 2200, 2239 Meyer, Whitford 1051. For. Bur. 6401 Curran, For. 
Bur. 1426, 1505 Ahern’s collector, Elmer 6692, 6883, 6S89, For. Bur. 812, 1142, 
1909, 2014, 2101, 2926 Borden. Leyte, Elmer II 64 . 
Endemic. 
2. Ellipanthus mindanaensis sp. nov. 
Arbor parva, ramulis junioribus fruetibusque ferrugineo-pubescenti- 
bus; foliis oblongo-ellipticis vel ovato-ellipticis, subcoriaceis, usque ad 14 
cm longis, apice acuminatis, basi late rotundatis vel leviter cordatis, levis- 
sime peltatis, integris, nitidis, supra glabris vel ad nervos minute pubes- 
centibus, subtus ad costam nervosque pubeseentibus, nervis 7 vel 8 utrin- 
que; folliculis solitariis, longe pedicellatis, compressis, 3 cm longis, sub- 
faleatis, acuminato-rostratis. 
