NEW OR NOTEWORTHY rillLirPINB PLANTS, VI. 225 
A widely distributed species in the Pliilippines, extending from central Luzon 
to southern Mindanao, the only representative of the genus known from the 
Archipelago. After an oxaininalion of Presl's type in TTerh. Prague, I am a])le to 
affirm the identity of the above-cited specimens, and accordingly transfer the 
species to the genus in whicli it properly belongs. 
PHAEANTHUS Hook. f. et Thoms, 
Phaeanthus ebracteolatus (Presl) comb. nov. 
Uvaria chractcolata Presl Kel. Haenk. 2 (18o5) 77. 
Uvaria tripetala Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 465, non Koxb. 
Unona tripetala Blanco 1. c. ed. 2 (1845) 324; ed. 3, 2: 236. 
Phaeanthus cumingii Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 2 (1859) 51j Vidal Pliaii. Cuniing. 
Philip. (1885) 93; Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (188G) 42; Ceron Cat. PI. Herb. (1892) 
11; Merr. in Forest. Bur. Bull. 1 (1903) 20; Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) 
Suppl. 54. 
Phavanihiis maJaharicus Vid. Cat. PI. Prov. Manila (1880) 16; F.-Vill. Nov, 
App. (1880) 7, non Bedd. 
Phaeanthus nutans F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 6, non Hook. f. et Thoms. 
A very common and widely distributed endemic species for which PresPa 
specific name is here adopted, being the oldest valid one. In January, 1908, 
1 had opportunity to examine Presl's type, preserved in the Prague Herbarium, 
and consider it to be identical with Cuming's plant on which Miquel based liia 
Phaeanthus cumingii. 
MONIMIACE.E. 
KIBARA Endl. 
Kibara mollis sp. nov. 
Omnibus pnrtibus dense et niolliter stramiueo-fiilvo-pilosis vel pubes- 
eentibus; foliis cllipticis vel elliptico-ovatiSj membranaeeis, 12 ad 16 cm 
longis, apice breviter acuminatis, nervis utrinque 5 vel 6; inflorosccntiis 
paniciilali,< vel racemoso-panicnlatis, paucifloris, solitariis, axillaribus, 6 
ad 10 cm longis, ramis patontibus, inferioribus ca. 3 cm lougis; re- 
ceptaculis elliptico-ovatis, cliartaceis, extus dense pilosis; earpellis ca. 
20, pubca:entibus; tepalis ovatis, glabris, acutis, ca. 0.5 mm longis. 
A shrub or small tree very densely and softly pilose or pubescent 
througboiit. Branches terete, slender. Leaves pale, elliptical or ellip- 
tical-ovate, densely pilose on l)oth surfaces, membranaceous, 12 to 16 cm 
long, 4 to 8 cm wide, base acute, apex short- acuminate, the margins 
above unequally undulate-denticulate; nerves 5 or G on each side of the 
midrib; petiole 1.5 to 2 cm long. Inflorescence axillary, solitary, panic- 
ulate or racemose-paniculate, 6 to 10 cm long, densely pilose, the 
branches spreading, the lower ones about 3 cm long, the upper gradually 
shorter, each bearing 1 to 3 flowers. Flowers 3 to 4 mm long, their 
pedicels 1 to 2 cm long, the receptacle elliptical-ovate, chartaceous, exter- 
nally densely pih)sc; carpels about 20, 2 mm long, pubescent; tepals ovate, 
glabrous, acute, al)out 0.5 mm long. 
Luzon, Province of Rizal, Bosoboso, Pur. Sci. 1010 Ramos, July, lOOfi. 
A very characteristic species, readily recognizable by its soft, dense, rather 
pale pubescence, which extends to all parts of the plant. 
