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riora plus duplo majora elliptica, omnia acuta, basi obtusa petio- 
lulis longiusculis tumidis tomentosis insidentia, integerrima, 
chartacea, nervis lateralibus approximatis obliquis subtus pro- 
minentibus, supra praeter nervum medianum hirtellum glabra, 
laeviuscula, pallide viridia, subtus pilis subulatis patulis hirta, 
utrinque glandulis profunde immersis ornata; flores (non sup- 
petebant) ; fructus major, bilocularis, e transversim ellipsoideo 
subcylindraceus, inter loculos sulco levi, septi margini respondenti 
exaratus, inde subbicoccus, basi sepalorum reliquiis tomentosis 
suffultus, apice subapiculatus, pericarpio corticoso-coriaceo 
tomento hirto fusce ochraceo obducto, dein + glabrato, meso- 
carpio e concretionibus sclerenchymaticis conflato, endocarpio 
membranaceo tenuissime fibroso non solubili pilis paucis sub- 
setaceis e pede fusiformi inter endocarpii fibros superficiales 
interjecto emergentibus adsperso; semen globosum, ad loculi 
basin septo affixum, testa tenuiter coriacea laevi brunnea; embryo 
erectus, obsolete notorrhizus, cotyledonibus hemisphaericis 
oblique juxtapositis farinaceo-carnosis albidis, radicula brevi 
micropylen versus curvata. 
Frutex ca. 1-metralis. Folia petiolo 10 cm longo adjecto 60 
cm longa; foliola inferiora cum petiolulis 1 cm longis 13 cm longa, 
6 cm lata, superiora 30 cm longa, 12 cm lata. Fructus 44.5 
em latus, 2 cm altus et crassus. Semen diametro 1.5 cm. 
In Philippinarum insula Luzon: M. Ramos n. 19460! (prov. 
Tayabas, in monte Pular, m. Jan. 1913, fr.; comm. ex Hb. 
Manil.). 
Obs. Affinis Lepisanthi eriolepidi Radlk., a qua differt foliolis 
acutis, fructu majore, endocarpio non solubili. 
HEDYACHRAS Radlk. (gen. nov.) in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 56 (1920) 258, 
annot: (charact. brevis) 
Flores minores, spurie polygami, masculi numerosi et feminei 
(hermaphroditos mentientes) pauci in iisdem inflorescentiis. 
Calyx 4-sectus, segmentis deltoideis subinduplicato-valvatis, de- 
nique horizontaliter expansis, immo reflexis, extus subfulvo- 
tomentosis, intus cano-pubescentibus, pressione staminum et 
antherarum striatis. Petala 0. Discus fundum calycis vestiens, 
patellaris, glaber, margine crenulatus nigro-fuscus. Stamina 
(an semper ?) 6, (floris ¢° brevia) filiformia, intra discum 
inserta glabra, in alabastro supra discum arcuatim, expansa, 
apice inflexa (inde bis curvata), dein exserta; antherae tumide 
deltoideae, apice retusae, basi excisae, dorso supra excisuram 
affixae, introrsae, connectivo dorso dilatato, glabrae, in alabastro 
arcte conniventes; pollinis granula trigono-globosa triporosa, 
