PHILIPPINE PLANTS, IX. 293 
lower one minutely scabrid; lateral nerves 5 or 6 on each side 
of the midrib, prominent, distant, somewhat curved, anasto- 
mosing, the reticulations lax, distinct; petioles 0.5 to 1.5 cm long, 
minutely pubescent, becoming glabrous, usually strongly curved* 
Spikes supra-axillary, slender, minutely pubescent, 2 to 4 cm 
long, flower-bearing only in the upper one-fourth or one-fifth. 
Male flowers unknown. Female flowers few, 10 or less on each 
spike, sessile, scattered, each subtended by an oblong-lanceolate, 
acuminate, 0.4 mm long bracteole. Perianth simple, 1.8 to 2 
mm long, the calyx represented by a very obscure disk, the tube 
very short, the lobes 4, valvate, oblong, obtuse, about 0.7 mm 
wide, pubescent externally. Staminodes very minute, alternat- 
ing with the perianth-lobes. Ovary ellipsoid, densely pubescent, 
about 1 mm long, 1-celled; ovules 2, pendulous; stigma sessile, 
truncate, round, minutely papillate. Drupe oblong, slightly com- 
pressed, glabrous, red or yellowish when mature, about 1.8 cm 
long, 1 cm wide, the pulp rather thin, fleshy. Seed about 1.5 
long, 8 mm wide, about equally narrowed and acute at both ends, 
slightly compressed, the testa crustaceous, externally somewhat 
punctate, internally papillose, the papillae projecting into the 
interstices of the ruminate albumen. Albumen firm, deeply 
ruminated, yellow, oily, externally deeply pitted. 
Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Kabibihan, climbing in tall trees in forests 
along the river, Bur, Sci. 13289 Ravios, March 3, 1911. 
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' Apparently a very distinct generic type, possibly most closely allied to 
Sarcostigma Wight & Arnott, although differing from that genus in many 
essential characters, such as the absence of the calyx, or at least the 
calyx represented by a very obscure disk, the scattered, not fascicled, 
Bpicate flowers, the repand and glandular-toothed, not entire leaves, and in 
Its albuminous seeds, the albumen being deeply pitted and ruminate. 
Dedicated to the late Doctor Paul Caspar Freer, founder and director of 
the Bureau of Science from its inception as the Bureau of Government 
Laboratories in the year 1901, until his death in April, 1912. 
PHYTOCRENE Wall. 
PHYTOCRENE LOHERI sp. nov. 
Frutex scandens, ramulis foliisque subglaber; ramulis teret- 
ibus, 3 ad 4 mm diametro,Jeviter longitudinaliter striatis, brun- 
neis, parce breviter pubescentibus; foliis ovatis, coriaceis, integris, 
acuminatis, basi late rotundato-truncatis vel subcordatis, 5- 
nerviis, reticulis obscuris; capitulis ut videtur globosis, drupis 
numerosis, oblongis, 7 ad 8 cm longis, dense adpresse villosis. 
A scandent shrub, nearly glabrous, the branchlets terete, dark- 
brown when dry, dull, slightly longitudinally striate, slightly pu- 
