424 MERRILL, 
the transverse nen'ules numerous^ curved upwards; petioles with few 
appressed scales, 1..") to 2.5 cm long. Flowers in threes, the inflorescence 
terminal, 6 cm long. Calyx about 12 mm long, 8 mm thick, densely 
covered with imbricated, appressed, penicillate-acuminate slightly ciliate 
1.2 mm long scales, the lobes 5, oblong-lanceolate, 1.8 cm long, 7 mm 
wide, penicillate-acuminate, the back densely scaly, the margins with 
scattered penieillate haii-s, the alternating teeth, 3 mm long, tipped with 
about three penieillate hairs. Petals obovate, obtuse, about 3 cm long, 
2.4 cm wide, the apical margin ciliate, 7-nerved. Stamens 10, the 
longer ones with filaments about 2 cm long including the connective, 
the appendages about 2 mm long; anthers 11 mm long. Bracts ovate- 
lanceolate, acuminate, 2 cm long, densely paleaceous, the bracteoles simi- 
lar, about 1.5 cm long. 
Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, Bur. Sci. 3798 Fenix, June 8, 1907. Cami- 
GUIN, Bur. Sci. /flOD Fenix, July 3, 1907. 
A species evidently allied to Melastoma penicillatum Naud., and M. palcaceum 
Naud., but with calyx scales more like species in the group with M. polyanthum, 
cliaraeterized by its membranaceous nearly glabrous leaves. 
UMBELLIFERiE. . . 
CENTELLA Linn. 
C. asiatica (Linn.) Urb. 
■ Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 2628 Fenix. Camiguin, 3966 Fenix. N. v., 
Tagaditae. 
Common throughout the Philippines; tropical and subtropical regions of the 
World. 
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SCHEFFLERA Forst. 
S. odorata (Blanco) Merr. & Rolfe. 
Sabtan, 3753 F4nix. N. v., Tugjic. 
Widely distributed in the Philippines; endemic. 
BOERLAGIODENDRON Harms. 
B. camiguinense Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 3 (1908) Bot. 252. 
Camiguin, Jfl35 F4nix. 
Known only from Camiguin. 
B. pectinatum Merr. 1. c. 253. 
Batan, Mount Iraya, 3775 Finix. 
Kno^vn only from Batan; the two most northern known species of the genus. 
OXAGRACE^. 
JUSSIEUA Linn. 
J. suffruticosa Linn. 
Camiguin, 3911 F6nix. 
W^idely distributed in the Philippines; tropics of the World. 
