20, 4 Merrill: Noteworthy Philippine Plants, XVII 388 
This species is radically different from known Philippine 
representatives of the genus both in its membranaceous leaves 
and in its lax, few-flowered, slenderly peduncled inflorescences. 
It is apparently most closely allied to Pycnarrhena cauliflora 
Diels, but differs from that species in numerous characters, 
especially in its smaller leaves which are acute at the base and 
slenderly acuminate at the apex, with fewer nerves than in 
Diels’s species. The number cited above was distributed under 
the generic name Fibruarea. 
ANONACEAE 
GONIOTHALAMUS Hooker f. and Thomson 
GONIOTHALAMUS PUNCTICULIFOLIUS sp. nov. 
Frutex vel arbor parva, ramis tenuibus, glabris, ramulis le- 
viter adpresse cupreo-pubescentibus; foliis chartaceis, anguste 
oblongis, 8 ad 12 cm longis, nitidis, glabris vel subtus ad costa 
leviter pubescentibus, acutis vel leviter acuminatis, basi acutis, 
subtus minutissime rubro-puncticulatis, nervis utrinque circiter 
10, tenuibus, reticulis laxis, obscuris; floribus axillaribus, soli- 
tariis, circiter 2 cm longis; sepalis late ovatis, 6 mm longis, 
leviter cupreo-pubescentibus; petalis valde incrassatis, utrinque 
pubescentibus, exterioribus 2 cm longis, oblongo-ovatis ad 
oblongo-lanceolatis, acutis, interioribus conniventibus, oblongo- 
ovatis, 1.5 cm longis, acutis; carpellis circiter 12, pubescentibus, 
stylis glabris, quam carpellis duplo longioribus; ovulis paucis. 
A subglabrous shrub or small tree, the branches terete, slen- 
der, rugose, dark-colored when dry, the very young branchlets 
and buds sparingly appressed-pubescent with cupreous hairs. 
Leaves chartaceous, narrowly oblong, 8 to 12 cm long, 2 to 8 
cm wide, the upper surface pale-olivaceous, strongly shining, 
smooth, the lower surface somewhat paler, minutely reddish- 
puncticulate, glabrous on both surfaces or the midrib beneath 
sparingly appressed-pubescent, the apex acute to slightly acu- 
minate, the base acute; lateral nerves slender, about 10 on each 
side of the midrib, not prominent, arched-anastomosing, the 
reticulations lax, indistinct; petioles about 5 mm long, the 
younger ones sparingly cupreous-pubescent, in age glabrous. 
Flowers axillary, solitary, about 2 cm long, yellow, slightly 
fragrant, their pedicels 1 cm long or less, appressed cupreous- 
pubescent, subtended by 2 or 8 ovate, obtuse, pubescent, 2-mm 
long bracts. Sepals broadly ovate, acute to obtuse, about 6 
mm. long, reticulate in transmitted light, sparingly cupreous- 
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