ALABASTRA PHILIPPIXKXSlAj II. 209 
part of the stem, cymose^ one densely pubescent peduncle 1-3.5 cm long 
or sometimes more arising from each tubercle, the ultimate pedicels 
1-3 mm long; calyx campannlate, in all 5-6.5 mm long, 3.5 mm Avide, 
scurfy-pubescent, projecting 2 mm l)eyond the ovar}^ the upper margin 
sliallowlj'' divided into 5 broadly rounded acuminate lobes; petals 5, 
wliitish, oblaneeolate, jnoro or less oblique and 3-tooUied at tlie apex, 
G-C).5 mm long, 2.5 mm wide, contracted to 1 mm shortly above tlie 
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base; stamens 10, subequal, the filaments 2.5-3 mm long, of equal di- 
ameter throughout, the anthers also 2.5-3 mm long, tapering to the apex, 
basal lobes of the connective 0.4 mm long, spur 0.3 mm long; ovary 
5-celled, with fairly numerous ovules. 
A small shrub about 2 m high, with a stem about 2.5 cm in diameter, 
its bark pale-gra}-, striate, lenticellato, that of the younger branches 
3^ellowisli-scurf3^-tomentose ; leaves opposite, on petioles pubescent like 
the stem and 1.5-2.7 cm long, the lamina elliptic or oblong, 13-21 cm 
long, 5.G-9.3 cm wide, very shortly acuminate and apieulate at the apex, 
at the base acute, but sometimes truncate just at the inseiiion of the 
petiole, papyraceous, obscurely crenulate on the margins, bluish and 
glabrous on the U])per surface, beneath olivaceous and densely stellate- 
pubescent with the midrib and veins tomentose; venation pinnate, with 
5 pairs of lateral veins. 
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Type collected at an elevation of 150 m at Sax River, District of Zanihoanga, 
Mindanao, by R. S. Williams, no. 2/(12, in flower, February 20, 1905. 
ONAGKACE.l^]. 
EPILOBIUM Dill. 
Epilobium philippinense sp. nov. 
Sublignosum; caulibus simplicibus vel pnrce raniosis; floribus i>auois, 
racemosis, tcrminalibus, tetrameris, niediocris; pclalis iuiogris vel bix'vitcr 
bilobatis; stigmntc late elliptico, juniore late clavato, obscure lobato; 
foliis oppositis vel superioribns alternis, ovatis vel lanceolatis, breviter 
jjcdicellatis, gland uloso-serratis. 
Inflorescence few-flowered, terminating the stem or the short lateral 
branches, racemose; tlie flowers reguhir, leafy -bracted, at anthesis the 
ovary 1.8-3.3 em long, borne on a peduncle 1.5-2.5 mm long, and ex- 
panded at the apex into a disk about 2 mm in diameter, minutely pubes- 
cent throughout; calyx-lobes 4, lanceolate, 5-6 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, 
obtusely acuminate at the apex, the midvein fairly prominent, with 
scattered villose pubescence on the back and nuu'gins; petals 4, pink to 
puri>lish, 7.5 mm long, 4 nmi wide, contracted into a somewhat slender 
claw at the base, and entire or obcordate at the apex; stamens 8, the 
anthers oval, 1 mm lojig, O.S nun wide, the filaments alternately longer 
and shorter, the longer ones 1.5-2 mm long, flic intervening ones about 
