198 Romxsox. 
densely toinentose peduncles 2.5-6.5 mm long and 0,4-0.6 mm thick, 
male alone known : sepals 4^ in two rows^ green, coriaceous, oval, rounded 
at the apex, pubescent like the peduncles, 5-5.5 mm long, 4.5-5 mm wide, 
the outer the thicker; stamens 15-37, the filaments 2 mm long, 0.3-0.4 
mm wide, the anthers 1.7 mm long, 0.8-1 mm wide, cordate at the base, 
rounded at the apex ; disk annular, its margins crisped ; no trace of an 
ovary. 
A tree 6-8 m. high, with a trunk 7.5-30 cm in diameter, its bark gray, 
that of the ultimate branches greenish or grayisli, striate, along with the 
petioles sliort-ferruginous-tomentose or glabrescent; leaves alternate, gla- 
brous, coriaceous, entire or only slightly sinuate, oblong, elliptic, or 
lanceolate, 23-36 cm long, 6-9 cm wide, borne on petioles 1.2-2.5 cm 
long and 2.7-3.5 mm wide, at the apex narrowed into an obtuse acumen 
about 2.5 cm long, not more than 1 cm in width for over that distance 
from the tip, inequilateral, one side of the base rounded, the other very 
acute, approaching the midrib before the bounded side, their elevated 
margins forming with the apex of the petiole a distinct hollow, both 
surfaces of the lamina shining, the upper bluish-green, the under paler; 
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primary lateral veins on each side of the midrib 11-17, along with the 
nearly equally conspicuous secgndary and tertiary venation reticulate- 
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anastoniosing and conspicuous on l>otli surfaces, yellowish or reddish. 
Type collected at an elevation of 40 m at Lunibiag, District of Zamboanga, 
Mindanao, by W. I. Hutchinson, For. Bur. 6554, in flower, February 22, 1907. 
Also collected at 8ax River in the same district by R. S. Williams, no. 2165, 
February 14, 1905, and probably further represented hy sterile specimens For. 
Bur. 6094 Hutchinson, from Isabela, Basilaii. Common name on botli islands, 
fianaoi. 
A species in liabit resembling C. hordenii Merr,, but distinguished by the 
smaller flowers borne ii])tm longer and more slender peduncles. The leaves have 
a greater number of primary veins than in typical C. hordenii. 
Cyclostemon littoralis sp. nov, 
C. Cumingii Merr. PliiUp. Jour. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 7G; non Baill. 6tud. Gen. 
Euph. (1858) 562. 
Arbuscula : floribns dioicis, axillaribus, fasciculatis, longe pedunculatis; 
sepalis 4; corolla nnllo: niasculinis 10-stamineis, disco 10-lohato, ovario 
nullo: feniineis sine corolla vel staminibiis; disco annular! undulato; ova- 
rio subgloboso, biloeulari, 2- vel 1-ovulato ; stigiuate sessili discum planum 
succulentum varie lobatum efformante: foliis ovalibus ellipticis vel ovatis, 
basi plus minnsve inaequilateralibus, apice acuminatis. 
Flowers in axillary fascicles of 7-34, on finely pubescent peduncles 
13-18 mm long and 0.2 mm tblck, arising from an involucre of numerous 
Jnnccolate pubescent scales 2.5-3 mm long: male flowers with 4 broadly 
ovate scpal<!, 3,5 mm long, 2.7 mm wide, tnmcatc or rounded at tbe 
apex, reflexed at anthesis, more or less pubescent; stan\ens 10, each 
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