NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PIIILTPPINE PLANTS, VI. 227 
A very common and widely distributed species in Luzon, confiised witli 
Pygeum latifoUniH Miq.. and distributed as such, readily recognized, however, by 
its subsessile flowers and very prominent glands at the base of the leaf, which 
strongly protrude on the upper surface. T., Jjogo. Uupit. 
Pygeum preslii nom. nov. - 
aermaria latifoJia Presl Epim. Bot. (1849) 221; iliq. Fl. Ind. Bat. V (1855) 
401. ^, ^, 
Pygeum latifolium Vidal Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 111, Pvov. PI. \ asc. 
Filjp. (188G) 122; Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (li)OU) Snppl. GO (in part), 
non Pygeum latifolium Miq. 1. c. 301. 
Pygeum arhoreum F.-ViU. Nov. App. (1883) 76, exel. syn.;" Vidal Sinopsis 
Atlas" (1885) t. J,6, f. B, non Endl. 
This species is common and widely distributed in the Philippines, and is allied 
to the preceding, readily distinguished, however, by its rather long-pedicelled 
flowers and basal leaf glands which are not prominent and not impressed, bemg 
scarcelv visible on the upper surface of the leaf and not at all protruding a^ 
in Pygeum glandulosum Merr. It has been considered as Pygeum latifolium Miq., 
but judging from tlu- description of that species, the Philippine plant is different. 
Unfortunately both Presl and Miquel used the same n5<^(^ifi<^ name for wdiat are 
apparently two distinct species, iliquel publishing his Pygcinn latifoUum without 
any reference to the earlier Germaria latifoUa Presl, and not recognizing that 
Presl's species was in reality a true Pygeum. The use of the specific name 
latifolium under Pygeum-, precludes the possibility of transferring Presl's earlier 
name, and accordingly the above new name for the Philippine plant is here 
proposeLl- 
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Pygeum dementis sp. nov. 
Arbor glabra ; foliis oblongis, ncnminatis, usque ad 20 cm longis, neryis 
utrinque ca. 10, subtiis ntrinque ad basin glaiidulis concavis impressis; 
fniotibus siibcouipresso-globosis, 1.5 ad 3 cm dinmotro. 
A tree, glabrous or nearly so throughout, 10 to 15 m high. Branches 
dark-reddish-brown, glnbrous, terete, leuticellate. Leaves oblong, coria- 
ceous dull or slightly shining above, 13 to 30 cm long, 4.5 to 8 cm wide, 
entire, acuiuiiiate, base rounded or subacute, with a small but prominent 
dand on each side of the midrib at the base, protruding on the upper 
sui-facc- nerves about 10 on each side of the midrib, prominent beneath, 
nnnstoniosing; petioles 5 to 7 mm long. Flowers not seen. Eacemes 
axillary, solitary, in fruit 4 to 5 cm long, glabrous. Fruit glabrouB, 
subcompressed-globose, 1.5 to 2 cm wide, 1 to 1.3 cm long, the pedicels 
7 to 10 mm long. 
inxDAXAo, Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens 160, 006, Septemter, 
1900, ilaieli, 1907, both specimens in fruit. ,■„ ■ „ 
A species allied to I'ygeum presUi Men., and P. glandulosum U.rv., d.ffenug 
fvon. both in having twice as many lateral nerves, and in its mneh larger frn.t. 
