i 
412 MEIUULL. 
stellate-pubescent along the midrib, tlie lower surface rather densely 
stellate-pubescent "^-hen youn^j becoming subglabrous in age; nerves 
about 23 on each side of the midrib, parallel, distinct; petioles 8 to 11 
cm long, straight, stellate-pubescent. Panicles slender, narrow, axillary, 
20 to 30 cm long, densely stellate-pubescent, the branches scattered, 
few, the longest ones scarcely exceeding 4 cm in length. Staminate 
flowers crowded into dense sessile heads 4 to 5 mm in diameter, arranged 
along the ultimate branchlets. Sepals 3, narrow, stellate-pubescent, 
about 1 mm long. Petals twice as long as the sepals. Stamens 3. 
Pistillate flowers not seen. Fruit of three 1 to 1.5 cm long carpels, the 
outside densely covered with rather soft, 5 mm long, densely stellate- 
tomentose processes. 
Camiguix (Babuyan Islands), Bur. Sci. JfOoO Fenix^ June 27, 1907, in thickets 
near the seashore. 
A very characteristic species with the facies of Lunasia amara Blanco, but at 
once distinguished by its more pubescent leaves and its fruits being covered with 
numerous, soft, stellate-tomentose processes about 5 mm long. 
Lunasia amara Blanco is very common and widely distributed in the Philip- 
pines, and is rather variable in vegetative characters. No representative of the 
genus is known from outside of the Malayan region. 
MICROMELUM Blume. 
M. tephrocarpum Turcz. 
Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 364^ Fenxx. Camiguin, S99Jt F4nix. 
A form endemic to the Philippines, scarcely distinct from the widely distributed 
Micromelum puhcscens Blume. 
MURRAYA Linn. 
M. exotica Linn. 
Camiguin, 411Jf F^nix. 
Common and widely distributed in the Philippines; tropical Asia to Formosa, 
Malaya, Australia and Polynesia. 
M. crenulata Oliv. 
Sabtan, 3142 Fcnix. 
A species known only from the Pliilippines, not common. 
CITRUS Linn. 
C. hystrrx DC. 
Batax, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3836 Fenix. N. v., Valatino. 
Widely distributed in the Philippines; British India to Malaya. 
MELIACE^l^. 
CHISOCHETON Blume. 
C. philippinus (Turcz.) Harms. 
Camiguin, JfOIiG F^nix. 
Common and widely distributed in the Philippines; endemic. 
