NEW OR NOTEWOPvTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VL 205 
A species well characterized by its elongated, narrow, persistent calyx-lobes; 
apparently allied to Mussaenda wrayii King, of the Malay Peninsula, but very 
different from that species. 
LASIANTHUS Jack. 
Lasianthus everettii sp. nov. 
Arbor parva vel arbuscula; ramulis foliis stipulis bracteisque phis 
minus fusco- vel flavescenti-pilosis vel villosis; foliis lanceolatis vel oblan- 
eeolatis, ca. 20 cm longis, loiige teniiiter acuminatis, basi acutis; nervis 
utrinque 9 vel 10 ; stipulis ovato-lanceolatis, 3 cm longis, dense villosis, 
longe caudato-acuminatis, submembranaceis ; floribn^ axillaribus, solita- 
riis vel fasciculatis, 5-mcris; bracteis anguste lanceolatis, numerosis. 
A small tree or sbrub, the branches, leaves and stipules more or less 
densely covered with the rather long bro\yn to yellowish-green liairs, 
the branchlets nearly black when dry. Leaves lanceolate or oblanceolate, 
about 20 cm long, 3 to 4.5 cm wide, submembranaceous, the apex long and 
slenderly acuminate, base acute, both surfaces with numerous long yellp-ftr- 
ish or brownish hairs; nerves 9 or 10 on each side of the midrib, prominent 
beneath, curved- ascending, anastomosing, the reticulations lax ; petioles 
1 cm long, densely villous; stipules prominent, ovatedanceolate, long and 
slenderly" acuminate, 3 cm long, 8 mm wide, densely yellowish- villous 
narrowed below towards the base, snbmembranaceous. Flowers axillary, 
two or three or more in each axil, sessile, the bracts many, lanceolate, 
slenderly acuminate, densely villous, about 2 cm long. Fruit about 5 mm 
long sparingly hirsute, crowned with a tuft of long brown hairs, 5-celled. 
Negbos, near Cadiz Nuevo, For. Bur. 5591 Everett, November, 19UG. 
A very characteristic species, distinguishable by its yellowish hairs, lanceolate 
long-acununale leaves and very prominent stipules and bracts which are covered 
with long yellowish hairs. 
RANDIA Houst. 
Randia racemosa (Cav.) F.-ViU. Nov. App. (1883) 108; Maxim, in Bull 
Acad. P^tersb. 29 (1884) 167; Forbes & Hemsl. in Journ. Lmn. Soc. Bot. 23 
Stylocoryua racemosa Cav. Icor,. 4 (1797) 45, t. 368; DC. Prodr. 4 (1S30) 
377- Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. (1841) 204; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 2 (1850) 205. 
Kemijia odorata Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 2 (1845) 115; ed. 3 1 : 205^ 
lUuuna densiflora Elm. I^afl. Philip. Bot. 1 (1900) 32; Merr. in Plnl.p. Journ. 
Sei. 1 (1900) Suppl. 130, non (?) Benth. 
Luzov Province of Bataan, Lamao River, For. Bur. W2 Aherns collector; lor 
Bur 20 ',1 Borden; Elmer 6813: Province of Batangas, For. Bur. 1631 Curran rf 
Mcniit, October, 1907: Province of Pangasinan, For. Bur. S390 Curran £ MM 
Deceniter, 1907: Province of Rizal, Bosoboso, Merrill 2189, Jnly, 1903; Bur Scu 
m.', Ramos, July, 1900; San Mateo, For. Bur. 18U, ^^f ,f '^^^.f^'t/""' 
September, 1904, June, 1905. iU.NooKO, Pola, Merrill 2219, May, 1903. Ma«- 
liATE, Merrill 3051 August, 1903. Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley. 
Afrs. OJemcns iiW, September, 1907. , TinU 
Widely distributed in the Philippines, and extendmg to the R.u Km Ishuids. 
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