244 MERRIIX. 
ELAEOCA UPACE J5 
ELAEOCARPUS Linn. 
Elaeocarpus foxworthyi sp. nov. 
Arbor ca. lo m alta; foliis elliptico-ovatis, ca 18 cm longis, coriaceis, 
obtusis, subtus ferrugiiio()-pubescentil)iis, nervis utrinque ca. 12, pro- 
niinentibus, margine breviter obsciireque denticulatis; fnictibus ovoideis 
vel ellipsoideis, dense ferrugineo-pubescentibus, ca. 3.5 cm longis. 
A tree about 15 m high, the branches, branchlets, petioles, leaves 
beneath, and above ^yllon young, panicles and fruits rather densely 
ferruginous-pubescent. Leaves elliptical-ovate, about 18 cm long, 10 
to 13 cm wide, coriaceous, obtuse, rarely slightly and broadly acute, 
the base rounded to sul)acute, glabrous aljo\e when mature, except on 
the somewhat pubescent midrib and nerves, the margins minutely and 
distantly denticulate; nerves about 12 on each side of the midrib, very 
prominent, parallel, the reticulations very distinct beneath, subparallel; 
petioles 5 to 6 cm long. Flowers unknown. Infnitescence axillary, 
pubescent. Fruits ovoid or ellipsoid, about 3.5 cm long, 2.5 cm thick, 
very hard, obtuse, densely ferruginous-pubescent, with one mature seed. 
Palawan-, Iwahig, Bur. ^'c^. 838 Foxicorfhy, May, 1900; For. Bur. 1,158 Vurran, 
May, 1906. 
A tree growing along the river, well cliaraeterized by its rather large, ellip- 
tical-ovate leaves, and liard, ferruginous, cllip^^oid, rather large, fruits. 
]\rALVACE.T:. 
HIBISCUS Linn. 
Hibiscus cannabinus Linn. Syst. ed. 10 (1759) 1149; Mast, in Hook. f. Fl. 
Brit. Ind. 1 (1874) 339; Hochr. in Ann. Conserv. Jard. Bot. Oenfev. 4 (1900) 114. 
Luzox, Manila, Merrill 3801, Doceniher, 1903: Province of Pangasinan, Bur. 
8ci. 4904 Ramos, December, 1907. Mindanao, Province of Surigao, Baganga, 
Merrill 5J,S-'i, October, 1906. 
Widely <Ustributed in the tropics, cultivated; not previously repitrted from the 
Philippines. 
F LAC OU KT I A CE J-]. 
HOMALIUM dacq. 
Several species of Ilomalium occur in the Philippines^ all endemic, 
so far as is known at the present time. Some of the species are im- 
portant timber trees, bnt as there has been considerable confusion in 
the group, due to misinterpretation of some of the previously described 
species, the following key to the Philippine forms has been made. The 
types of F.-Villar*s i>pecies are no longer extant, Imt tliose of A^idal are 
prt^erved in the Kew TTer1>ariuiJi, ami these have been examined. There 
description 
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