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XOTES ON l^IIILIPriNIi BOTANY. 11 
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PTEROSPERMUM Sclireb. 
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Pterospermum Cumingii Merrill & Kulfe sp. nov. 
Arbor vei arbuscula; foliis oblougis, levitcr ac uminatis, basi sub- 
aequalibus vel leviter inaequalibus, rotundatis^ supra glabris, subtus dense 
ferrug-ineo-piiberulis, 4 ad 8 cm loiigis^'2 ad 3.5 cm latis; fructibus 
oblongis^ cylindricis, circiter 3 cm longis, breviter apiculatis. 
A tree or shrub^ the branches terete, the older ones grayish, glabrous, 
the younger ones densely ferruginous-puberulent as are the petioles, under 
surfaces of the leaves, and the fruits. Leaves oblong, 4 to 8 cm long, 
3 to 3.5 cm wide, subcoriaceous, glabrous and sliining above, beneath 
densely ferruginous-puberulent, the apex sliort and bluntly acuminate, 
the base rounded, subequal or slightly oblique; nerves prouiinent beneath, 
the basal ones 3, with sometimes an additional faint subuiarginal pair, 
the primary lateral ones, above the base, 4 on each side of the midrid, the 
reticulations nearly obsolete; petioles puberulent, 1 to 1.8 cm long. 
Fruit 2.5 to 3 cm long, cylindrical, about 1.8 cm in diameter, the base 
abru})tly contracted into a short stout cylindrical pseudostalk, the apex 
short-apiculate, the outside very densely ferruginous-puberulent. Seeds, 
including the wings, about 1.7 cm long. 
PuiLiPPiNES, without locality, Cuming 1860, in Herb. Kew. 
A species allied to P. nivcuin Vidal and to P. ohliquum Blanco, differing from 
both in its nearly inequilateral leaves and other characters. 
THEACEyE. 
SCHIMA Keinw. 
Schima Noronhae Reimv, ex Ehnne Cat. Gew. Buitenzorg (1823) 80; Bijdr. 
(1825) 130; Forbes & Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 23 (1886) 80. 
Palawan, Mount Pulgar, For. Bur. 38SJ Curran, February, 190G. 
Eastern India to southern China and the Malayan region; new to the Philip- 
pines. 
TERNSTROEMIA Linn. 
Ternstroemia Toquian (Blanco) F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 18. 
Llanvaia Toquian Blanco Fl. Filip. od 2 (1845) 319. 
Ternstroemia Lohhiana Pierre Fl. Forest. Cochinch. (18^7) pi 12S, in note. 
Ternstroemia penangiana Ceron Cat. PI. Herb, (1892) 22, non Clioisy. 
A species common and widely distributed in tlie Philippines, extending from 
700 to 1,500 m alt., here enumerated to call attention to the reduction of Pierre's 
species and to correct the identification in Ceron's Catalogo. 
Celebes. 
