3 to & inches longs, erect or ascending, reddish, terete, 
lees than 1/2 inch thiek; the 5 sepals yellowish green, 
deeply folded on the upper side above the middle, subtended 
by a single reddish streaked green bractg which slightly 
exceed the sepals; petale ®, ascendingly curved, 4 inches 
long, 5 inches across, similarly bright yellow 411 over; 
stamene bright yellow; ovary yellow with a slight reddish 
tinge; stigmas or styles and stigmae yellowish white or 
paler yellow than the petale; fruits irregularly 7 lobose, 
3 inches thick, solid; seed brown, surrounded by folda of 
thiek @reenish sour suceulent membranee: “Calamboog,” 
Todeys, September, 1909, 
11884, Guereus caudatifelia MerrZz Imall tree 30 
feet high with 1 foot thick stem, on a wooded ridge at 3800 
feet on the Talon side of the mountain range: bark gray 
and somewhat mottled, checked longitudinally; the main 
branches srising from below the middle, widely spreading; 
twigs numerous, slender snd lax, green; leaves ample, descend- 
ing, shellowly condupliesate on the upper bright green and 
lucid surface, subchartaceous, beneath much lighter green, 
the nerves covered with =a fine yellowish brown tomentum, 
tips atrongly recurved; fruits upon 3 to 5 inches long spikes, 
aseending, arising terminally from the second or third year 
oid branchlets; cupe yellowieh brown &x thin; scorns cone. 
shaped, 1/2 inch lone, derk green and ceverdéd with a fine 
yellowish brown tomentum, apex prominent or rather sharp, 
branches and branchlete densely covered with whitigh lenti- 
cells; inflorescence yellowish green, the 3 to 5 inches 
long ascending spikes arising from the uppermosts leaf axils; 
wood whitie’, streaked with the characteristic oak-black 
vessils, odorless and tasteless; flowers also odorless, 
pale white; "“Vlayan; Todaya, September, 1999. 
11885. Salemue merriljii Ceee. n. sp. Lofty tree 
climber on 2 wooded or forested ride at 3800 feet on the 
Talon side of the mountain range; soil fertile, moist, 
humus covered; old stem 21/2 inches thick, hard, green 
or occacional glaucescently green; the leaf bearingy portion 
nearly 4 inches thick; lesves divaricate or slightly ascend- 
ing and recurved, alternstingly 1 foot apart, 1 feet lone, 
terminated into a & feet long stout hooked subpendulous 
rachis; leaflets descending, sublucid ond similerly green 
on both sidee, beset on both sides with eeattered setae. 
like spines, ‘he midvein keeled on the upper cide, the sides 
roof-shaped or descending, tough not rigid, reduced towards 
the apex; petiole proper 1 foot long, slaucous green 
beneath or on the cides towards the base, 2 inches wide, 
eoneave above, convex below, smooth except the spiny edges, 
the basal thick shoulder smooth; sheaths covered with a 
dingy reddish white bloom or pulverulence, especially spiny 
beneath the thick petiole bases, the epines range from 1/4 
to 3 inches long, short below, long toward the top of the 
sheaths; infruteseence axillary, descendingly recurved, 
avout 4 feet lone, 211 the sheaths dull green and epines- 
cent; branches alternating, 3 to 6 inches apert, the lower 
ones & feet long, @radually reduced toward the apex; fruit 
bearing branchlets 3 to 5 inches in length, ascendingly 
curved as are 2190 the branches; fruits globose or a trifle 
@longated; 1/2 ineh long, pele green or whitish; “Acab- 
bacab;" rachie hooked beneath, spinescent above especially 
the basel Y; lencth; Todaya, tay, 1909. 
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