\ 
242 MERRILL, 
Fruit broarlly ol)long, somewliat compressed, 1.5 em long, about 1 cm 
wide, somewhat liirsute, strongly reticulate. 
Philippines, without locality, Cuming 1532. Mindoko, Calapan, Merrill 9S7, 
12S1, January, April, 1903; Pinajualayan, For. Bur. 5407 Merritt, October, 1900. 
ItOMBLON, Hallicr, January, 1904. Masbate, Merrill 33SS, Novomher, 190:?. 
Ckiju, Bur. Sci. 1709 McGregor, September, 190G (type). Leytk, Palo, Elmer 
1108, January, 1906. Palawan, Bur, Sci. 729 Foooworthy, March, 190G. 
The specimen collected by Cuming, cited above, has been referred by Baillon* 
to lodes ovaUs Blume, but the Philippine plants appear to differ constantly from 
typical Javan material (PI. Bogor. Exsicc. no. 27) in their differently sliaped, 
more cordate and much more acuminate, thinner leaves, less dense pubescence, 
and very different inflorescence, in lodes ovaJifi the inflorescence being about 20 cm 
long, and in /. philippinensis never more than 7 cm in length and usually much 
shorter. 
U R A N D R A Thwaites. 
Urandra luzoniensis sp. nov. 
Arbor glabra, 13 ad 29 m alta; foliis alternis, ellipticis vel obovalo- 
ellipticis, subcoriaceis, nitidis, usque ad 15 cm longis, breviter obtuseqne 
acuminatis, basi attcnuatis; cymis termininalibns 3 ad 6 cm longis; 
floribus 5-meris, ca. 5 mm longis; fructibus oblongo-ellipsoideis, 2 ad 
2.5 cm longis. 
A tree, glabrous throughout, except the infloropcence, 12 to 29 m 
high. Branches terete, light-gray, the ultimate branchlets usually 
reddish-brown. Leaves alternate, elliptical to ob ovate- elliptical, siib- 
coriaceous, shining, paler beneath, glabrous, 7 to 15 cm long, 4 to 7.5 
cm wide, the apex shortly and obtusely acuminate, sometimes obtuse, the 
base gradually nnrrowed and somewhat decurrent-acuminate ; nerves 
about 5 on each side of the midrib, slender, distinct beneath, ascending, 
the reticulations very lax, nearly obsolete; petioles about 1 em long. 
Cymes terminal, 3 to 6 cm long, dichotomous, the peduncles 1 to 3 
cm long, the ultimate branches and pedicels more or less ferruginous- 
hirsute. Calyx short, cup-shaped, truncate or obscurely toothed, about 
1.5 nnu louir and 1.7 mm in diameter. Petals 5, oblong-ol)la.nceolate, 
acute, glat)rous, 5 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, crested at the apex inside. 
Stamens 5; filaments 5 mm long, glabroTis below, above on the inner 
side below the anther, and on tlie back opposite the anther covered with 
long weak hairs; anthers ovoid, 1.2 mm long. Ovary ovoid, glabrous; 
style conical. Fruit elliptical-oblong, glabrous, black when dry, 2 to 
2.5 cm long, about 1 cm in diameter, slightly striate, the exocarp coria- 
ceous, the seed similar in shape to the fruit, 1.5 em long or less. 
Luzon, Trovince of Bataan, Lamao River, For. Bur. 711, 1926, 29^0 Borden^ 
I^Jay, September, and March, 11)04-05; For. Bur, 562, 574 Barnes, March, 1904: 
Province of Rizal, Boaoboso, Merrill 2669, June, 1903; For. Bur. 2445, 2989 Ahern's 
collector: Province of Cagayan, For. Bur. 7017 KJcmme, May, 1907. MixnoRO, 
For. Bur. 6214 Merritt, January, 1907. 
•DC. Prodr. 17 (1S73) 23. 
