SERTULUM BONTOCENSE. 
tube slightly gibbous at the base and 5 mm in diameter, the 
lobes 3 mm wide below, narrowed above, the reflexed part above 
the insertion of the stamens about 1.5 cm long, thickened, 2 mm 
wide, the margins incurved. Filaments 3 to 4 mm long; anthers 
continuous, erect, linear-lanceolate, about 1 cm long. 
Luzon, Bontoc Subprovince, Bauco, in forests, altitude about 1,650 m, 
Vanoverbergh 125 l^y June 13, and Augijst 17, 1911. 
A characteristic species, its distinctive features being: its stout, 5-angled 
branchlets, and its comparatively large flowers, the corolla being somewhat 
gibbous at the base. 
MENISPERMACEAE. 
COCCULUS DC. 
Cocculus laurifolius DC. Syst. 1 (1818) 530, Prodr, 1 (1824) 100; Diels 
in Engl. Pflanzenreich 46 (1910) 239. 
Luzon, Bontoc Subprovince, Daoait, Vanoverbergh 12S7, June, 1911, 
along trails, altitude about 1,200 m. 
Not previously reported from the Philippines, the third species of the 
genus to be found in the Archipelago. India to Japan, southern China, 
Formosa, and Java. 
The specimen is a fairly close match for Wallich ^Ptf5, a specimen of 
which is in our herbarium, as well as several specimens from plants 
cultivated in the Botanic Garden at Buitenzorg, Java. 
MAGNOLIACEAE. 
ILLICIUM Linn, 
niicium montanum sp. nov. 
Arbor parva, glabra, aromatica; foliis oblongo-ellipticis, utrin- 
que acutis vel leviter acuminatis, coriaceis, usque ad 8 cm longis, 
nervis utrinque circiter 7, obscuris vel subobsoletis ; floribus 
axillaribus, fasciculatis, circiter 3 cm diametro; folliculis circiter 
12, radiatis, 1,5 ad 2 cm longis, acuminatis. 
A small, glabrous, aromatic tree about 4 m high. Branches 
olivaceous when dry. Leaves coriaceous, dark-brown when dry, 
slightly shining, oblong-elliptic, narrowed about equally at both 
ends and acute or slightly acuminate, 5 to 8 cm long, 2 to 3.3 
cm wide, the midrib very stout and prominent; lateral nerves 
about 7 on each side of the midrib, very faint, often nearly 
obsolete, the reticulations obsolete; petioles about 1 cm long. 
Flowers white, axillary, somewhat fascicled, the buds ovoid, ses- 
sile, soon becoming short-pedicelled. Sepals and petals about 
20, the outer ones in bud ovate, apiculate, their margins ciliate, 
deciduous or persisting until anthesis and elongated, the outer 
sepals in flower oblong, about 15 mm long, 6 mm wide, obtuse, 
the inner ones gradually shorter and narrower, the innermost 
petals lanceolate, long-acuminate, about 10 mm long. Stamens 
