ALABASTRA PHILIPPINENSIA, III. 345 
Part of Buzeta's note '^ is also given. "Los indios conoclan antes de la oon- 
quista el algodon, pero ignoraban el uso que podfan liacer de bus prodigioso.s 
capullos: dos clases de plantas lo producen; unas son tan crecidas conio grandes 
perales, pero el algodon que dan estos Tuboles, es basto y solo se emplea para almo- 
hadas, colclioncillos, y para fabricar niantas, lonas para volas de buques y algiino 
que otro tejido ordinario. La otra clase de algodon es la que se cultiva y es 
mucho niAs pequefia que la primera erece liasta la altura de tres pies." 
Under G. arhoreiun Linn,, Sir George Watt" has cited a plate in the Sloane 
herbarium, 165: fig. 212, as from Camel's collection. This would imply Philip- 
pine origin, and a date at the end of the 17th or the beginning of the 18th 
century. Doctor A. B. Rendle and Mr. Edmund Baker, of the British Museum 
of Natural History, have examined the plate, and find nothing to justify the 
opinion that it was in any way connected with Camel. The latter has a brief 
reference to cotton. "Gossipium, seu Xi/iw/zt Jndis Bulac. Herbaceum rf Arho- 
rcum" followed by a short statement of its meaicinal properties.^ 
THYMELAEACEAE. 
PIMELEA Banks & Solander. 
Pimelea philippjnensis sp. nov. 
Suflrutex: inliorescentiis^ superioribus exceptis, longiter pedunculatis, 
bracteis 4 basin versus coalltis involiicratis ; floribiis circiter 20, breviter 
pedicellatis ; receptaciilo anguste tubuloso, supra ovarium post anthesin 
circumscisso-deciduo ; sepalis 4, imbricatis, ovatis, obtusis, parvis; petalis 
imllis; staminibus 2, filamentis brevissimis, sepalis exterioribus opposi- 
tis ; ovario uniloculare, uniovulato : foliis oppositis vel alternis, sub- 
sessilibus, oblanceolatis vel oblongo-oblanccolatis. 
Inflorescences simulating flowers, borne on peduncles of various lengths 
up to 5 cm, or the uppermost nearly sessile; bracts 4, over 1 cm long, 
free for about two-thirds of the distance to the base, thence forming a 
cup containing about 30 flowers, the lobes lanceolate, subacute; the 
flowers not maturing simultaneous! 3', borne on pedicels about 1 mm 
r 
long: receptacle white, at anthesis, forming a slender tube 8 mm long 
and somewhat dilated at the apex, the portion above the ovary falling 
after anthesis; sepals 4, imbricate, ovate, obtuse, about 0.7 mm long; 
petals none; stamens 2, the filaments not exceeding 0.5 mm, borne at 
the base of the outer sepals at the throat of the receptacle;, anthers 0.4 
mm long, 2-celled; ovary about 1.5 mm long, 1-celled, with one pendulous 
anatropous ovule; style 5 mm long, the subcapitate stigma opposite the 
anthers; seeds about 2 mm long, the black testa crustaccous, embryo 
straight,' the fleshy cotyledons about 1 mm long the radicle 0.4 mm long, 
albumen none. 
Probably an annual, suffrute scent, glabrous throughout, 20 to 30 cm 
high, branched: leaves opposite or alternate, petioles wanting or le88j:han 
"Dice. Islas Filip. 1 (1850) 203, 204. 
« L. c. 84. 
^'"Kay Hist. PI. 3: (1704) App. 80. 
