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of fallen leaves, numerous, solitary, rather slender, 5 to 7 cm 
long, sparingly appressed-pubescent, about 15-flowered. Flowers 
5-merous, about 5 mm long, their pedicels 5 to 7 mm in length. 
Sepals externally sparingly appressed-pubescent, distinctly pus- 
tulate, lanceolate, narrowed upward to the acute or somewhat 
acuminate apex, 5 mm long, 1.2 mm wide, inside glabrous or 
nearly so. Petals equaling or a little longer than the sepals, 
up to 1.8 mm wide, externally glabrous except for very few 
hairs at the base, the margins densely villous-ciliate, inside 
prominently villous-ciliate in the lower one-half, the apical one- 
third split into 9 to 11 linear-filiform segments about 2 mm in 
length. Stamens about 20, their filaments 1 mm long or less; 
anthers linear, 2 mm long, cleft at the apex, the cells scabrid, 
one a little longer than the other and with a tuft of few short 
hairs at the tip. Ovary densely villous, 3-celled. 
Camiguin de Mindanao, in forests. Mount Mahinog, Bur. Sci. 1^635 
Ramos, April 11, 1912. 
A species manifestly allied to Elaeocarpus verimculosus Aug. DC, which 
it strongly resembles, differing especially in its much longer racemes, 
long and slender pedicels, and in its much shorter petioles. 
TILIACEAE. 
TRIUMFETTA L. 
TRIUMFETTA PROCUMBENS Forst. f. Prodr. (1786) 35; Hemsl. in 
Journ. Bot. 28 (1890) 1, fig, 1; Sprague & Hutchinson in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. Bot. 39 (1909) 246; Gagnepain in Not. Syst. 1 (1910) 
170, cum descr. 
Triumfetta fabreana Gaudich. Voy. (1826) 478, 1. 102, 
COMiRAN Island, Sulu Sea, PhiL PL UO Merrill distributed as "Trium- 
fetta repens Forst.," September, 1910, sandy seashore just above the limits 
of high tides, extending inland only a short distance. 
The specimens previously reported from the Philippines by me as this 
species ' were later found to represent the allied but quite distinct Triumfetta 
repens (Bl.) Merr. & Rolfe." 
Triumfetta procumhens Forst. is widely distributed in Polynesia, extend- 
ing eastward to the islands off the north-east coast of Australia, Purdy 
Island, north of New Guinea, to the small islands in the Indian Ocean off the 
east coast of Africa, and the Keeling Islands. Triumfetta repens (Blume) 
Merr. & Rolfe, for which Gagnepain prefers the later name T. radicans 
Bojer (1843), extends from Madagascar and the Seychelles to the Keeling 
Islands, Java, Borneo, Indo-China, the islands in the Gulf of Siam, and to 
the small islands off the north-east coast of Australia. 
'Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 6 (1904) 17. 
•This Journal 3 (1908) Bot. 111. 
