24G MKllRILL. 
pedicels pubescent, 3 to 4 mm long, jointed to the calyx. .Calyx tube 
narrowly funnGl-sliapod, pubescent, about 2 mm long, the lobes 5 or 6, 
oblong, 2 mm long, pubescent. Petals 5 or G, slightly exceeding the 
calyx lobes in length, subspatulate, pubescent. Stamens one opposite 
each petal. Ovary villous; styles 4 or 5. 
Luzon, Province of Rizal, Loher '2210: Bosoboso, Decades Philip. Forest FI. 
«o. 251; For. Bur. 1915 Ahern's collector, November, 1905. 
A species closely allied to Homalium harandae Vid., the type, Loher 2210, 
having been identified at Kew with Vidal's species. The plant above described is 
at once distinguished by its entirely^ glabrous leaves, even in young specimens. T., 
Lainy. 
(3) Homalium panayanum F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 94; Vidal Rev. PI. 
Vase. Kilip. (1886) 141; Ceron Cat. PI. Herb. (1892) 87. 
Homalium grandiflorum Naves in Blanco Fl. Filip, ed, 3, pJ. 44^, non Belith. 
GriMARAS, For. Bur. 262 Gammill, January, 1904; For. Bur. 453i) P. del Villar, 
June, 1906. Luzon, Province of Zambales, For. Bur. 8111, SJflO Curran & Merritt, 
December, 1907; Bur. Sci. 5051 Uamos, December, 1907. 
F.-Villar describes the species as having petals and sepals 10, stamens 10, 
rarely 20 or 30, while Vidal states that the petals do not appear to exceed 7 in 
number, the stamens two to three times as many as tlie petals. Our specimens 
show 6 to 7 petals and sepals, and an equal number of stamens, and I have 
accordingly included the species in the section BlackwclUa. VidaPs statement, 
however, would place it in the section Myriantheia. The plate cited by F.-Villar, 
shows 7-merous flowers, and apparently 7 stamens, and our specimens agree per- 
fectly witli the fig\ire. A species well characterized by its entire leaves and linear 
petals and sepals which are covered with long filiate hairs. V., Puyot. 
(4) Homalium bracteatum Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 4 (1800) 37; 
Rolfe in Journ. Bot. 23 (1885) 213; Vidal Plum. Cuming, Philip. (1885) 115; 
Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 142. 
JlomaJium luzoniense Alcrr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1900) Suppl. 99, non 
F.-Vill. 
pHium.xES, without locality, (Juming 1109 (cotype). Luzon, Province of Ba- 
taan, Lamao, For. Bur. 2011 Borden, October, 1904, For. Bur. 5^73 Curran, Novem- 
ber, 1900: Province of Bulacan, Angat, For. Bur. 11165 Aguilar, April, 1908: 
Province of Pampanga, ^Muunt Arayat, Merrill .)210, September, 1905: Province 
of Camarines, Pasacao, Akctn 2//, 12, January, March, 1902. 
A species well characterized by its 4- or 5-merous flowers, and dissimilar 
sepals and petals, the former being ovate -lanceolate, refiexed and much shorter 
than the latter, which are spatulate and erect or spreading. T., Aranga. 
(5) Homalium villarianum Vidal Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 142; Ceron 
Cat. PL Herb. (1892) 87. 
Homalium sorsogonense Elmer Leafl. Philip. Bot. 1 (1908) 325. 
Luzon, Province of Camarines Norte, Vidal 191, type in Herb. Kew: Province 
of Sorsogon, Elmer 1311, November, 1905, type of H. sorsogonense Elm. 
After a careful examination of the specimens and descriptions of these two 
species, I can find no characters by which they can be separated, and accordingly 
Elmer's recently described species is here reduced. On Vidal's specimen the 
flowers are 6-merou9, and on Elmer's specimen they are 5-merous, but this char- 
acter alone is not wiflBcient to distinguish them, as in many species of UouuiHum 
the (loral parts vary in number even on the same i)lant. 
