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134 MERIUIX. 
3.5 to 4 cm long, the peduncles 3 to 4 cm long, densely pubescent. Sepals 
glabrous, oblong-obovate, obtuse, about 3.5 cm long, 1.4 cm Avide. Petals 
iTsnally 9, similar to the sepals, the inner gradually smaller, glabrous, 
the innermost ones subspatulate. Stamens indefinite, curved, 10 to 12 
mm long. Carpels many, densely fnlvous-pubescent. Mature fruit 
oblong-ovoid, 4.5 to 6 cm long, the carpels about 1 cm long, rounded, 
not apiculate, slightly pubescent, the seeds about G mm long. 
Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Crnnp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens 6SG, September-October, 
1906, and without imiribors, March, :\Iay, June, and September, 1907. 
A characteristic species recognizable by its pubescence and its obtuse carpels. 
AXONACi:^. 
OXYMITRA Blume. 
Oxymitra fongiflora Merrill sp. nov. 
Poliis oblongo-obovatis vel eiliptico-obovatis, apice obtusis, basi Icviter 
cordatis, subtus plus minus castaneo-pubescentibus, nervis xitrinque ca. 
16; iioribus axillaribus, solitariis, usque ad 7 cm loDgis. 
Scandent, the branches terete, lenticellate, dark-brown and more or 
less dark-brown-pubescent, the ultimate branchlets, petioles, pedicels and 
nerves on the under surfax^e of the leaves densely so. Leaves oblong- 
obovate to elliptical-obovatc, 18 to 20 cm long, 7 to 11 cm Avide. above the 
middle, the apex broad, rounded or obtuse or subtruncate, somewhat nar- 
rowed below the middle to the slightly cordate base, subcoriaceous, sliin- 
mg and glabrous above except the somewhat pubescent midrib and nerves, 
beneath glaucous, the midrib nerves and reticulations densely dark- 
brown-pubescent; nerves about 16 on each side of the midrib, very prom- 
inent, parallel, the reticulations distinct, parallel. Flowers axillary, 
solitary, the pedicels stout, 0.5 to 2 cm long, with an oblong-ovate acu- 
minate bracteole at the lower one-third. Sepals 3, ovate, acute or acumi- 
nate, 1 cm long, 8 mm wide, densely pubescent on botlx surfaces. Outer 
petals lanceolale or linear-lanceolate, 7 cm long, 11 mm wide at the ])ase, 
gradually narrowed upwards, the midrib prominent, pubescent outside, 
• glabrous within and slightly concave at the base; inner three petals 
oblong-ovate, sharply acuminate, fleshy, coriaceous, glaljrous, 9 to 10 mm 
long, 5 to G mm wide. Stamens numerous, 2.2 mm long, the connectives 
oblique, overlapping. Carpels numerous, about 1.5 mm long, densely 
villous, the glabrous styles thickened upward, the stigma slightly villous; 
ovules 1. Fruit oblong-ellipsoid, somewhat puhe^^ccnt, acute, 1 cm loinr 
or less. ^ 
Mindanao, Lake hiinao, Camp Keitbb'v, -1/r.v. Clemens a. n., June, 1907, in 
flower and no. (i81>, Septenil)or, li»f)(;, ju fruit. 
