NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PIIILirPINE TLAXTS, VI. 217 
ft 
(6) Homalium luzoniense F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 94; Vidal Rev. PI. Pilip. 
(1886) 141; Sinopsis Atlas (1883) 27, t 53, f. B.; Ceron Cat. PI. lierb. 
(1892) 87. 
Homalium aranga Vidal 1. c, as syn. 
Luzon, Province of Tayabas, For. Bur. 19, 2Jf, Ware, SepU'inher, 1903, For. Bur. 
G037 Kohhe, December, 1906. Alatjat, Vidal .•?5//. 
A species well characterized by its 7- or 8-merous flowers, iiarmw sepals and 
spatulate petals. T., Aranya. 
Homalium foetidum Benth., has been reported from the Philippines by P.-Villar, 
Nov. App. 94, and l>y Ceron, Cat. PI. Herb. 87, but both are probably erron*-ous 
identifications. F.-Villar reduces Gordonia polysperma Blanco, to Homalium 
foetidum Benth., but this is certainly an error. I can not ideiitify Blanco'g 
species with any known form of Homalium, and it may apply to some plant 
of a very different genus. 
imiZOPnOEACE.E. 
SAGITTIPETALUM gen. nov. 
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Calyx basi bracteolis liberis; tubus brevis, ovarii basi adnatus; limbus 
G-partitus, lobis lanceolatis, acuminatis, coriaceis, valvatis. Petala 6, 
basi disci carnosi inserta, ungniculata, laminis oblongo-ovatis, margine 
irregulariter lacerato-fimbriatis, basi valde sagittatis. Stamina 12, al- 
terna breviora; filameutis capillaribus. Ovarium inferum, 1-lociilare; 
ovulis 19, collateralibus, in axillis interioribus superioribus affixis, 
pendulis. Stylus filiformis, stigma simplex, disciforme. 
Sagittipetalum mindanaense sp. nov. 
Arbor parva, glabra; raniulis toretibus, jimioribus eompressis: foliis 
oppositis, petiolatis, subcoriaceis, nitidis, ellipticis vel oblongo-ellipticis, 
acuminatis, basi amtia; cymis in axillis superioribus, ca. 3-floris, brevi- 
bus; floribus mediocris, G-moris. 
A small tree, about 10 m bigh, glabrous througliout. Branches slender, 
terete, the younger ones somewhat compressed, reddish-brown, the tips 
resinous. Leaves elliptical to obloug-clliptieal, 7 to 10 cm long, 3 to 
5.5 cm wide, the apex aciiminate, the base acute, entire, shining, sub- 
coriaceous; nerves G or 7 on ca,ch side oC the midrib, irregular, inter- 
arching Tioar the margin, not prominent, the retitulation rather lax, 
petiote 1 cm long or less; stipules caducous, lanceolate, 1.2 to 1.5 cm 
long. Cymes solitary in the upper axils only, sliort, usually 3-flo\vered, 
the peduncle about 5 mm long, compressed, the bracts ovate, acuminate, 
about 3 mm long ; pedicels very short, the bracteoles two, similar to the 
bracts, not united. Flowers gi-eenish, 1 cm long. Calyx ovoid, cleft 
to the middle, tlie lobes 6, lanceolate, acuminate, erect, 3 mm wide at the 
base. Petals 6, clawed, alternate with the sepals, 5.5 mm long, the 
claw 2 mm long, the blade oblong-ovate, strongly sagittate at the base, 
the apex acumimite, the margins irregularly lacerate- fimbriate, 3 mm 
wide below. ' Stamens 12, fi opposite tlie petals with slender fihimonts 
