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Luzon, Province of Sorsogon, Mount Lalao, Bur. Set. 2SU1U Ramos, 

 August 9, 1915, in forests near the summit of the mountain. 



A species apparently belonging in the same group as the Malayan 

 Morinda jackiana Korth., but quite glabrous. It is entirely different from 

 all the other described Philippine forms. 



TIMONIUS DeCandolle 



TIMON1US OLIGOPHLEBJUS sp. nov. 



Arbor circiter 6 m alta, ramulis foliis inflorescentiisque plus 

 minusve f errugineo-pubescentibus ; foliis ellipticis ad obovatis, 

 subcoriaceis, in siccitate brunneis, usque ad 8 cm longis, nitidis, 

 utrinque rotundatis vel obtusis, nervis utrinque 4 vel 5 ; inflores- 

 centiis axillaribus, solitariis, circiter 6 cm longis, longe peduncu- 

 latis, furcatis; fructibus sessilibus, ellipsoideis vel late ovoideis, 

 circiter 6 mm longis. 



A tree about 6 m high, the branchlets, leaves, and inflorescence 

 more or less pubescent with short brownish hairs. Branches 

 slender, pale-grayish or brownish, terete, glabrous, the younger 

 ones with appressed ferruginous hairs. Leaves elliptic to some- 

 what obovate, brown and somewhat shining when dry, 6 to 9 cm 

 long, 3.5 to 5 cm wide, rounded at both ends, or sometimes obtuse, 

 the base rarely acute, somewhat ferruginous-pubescent on the 

 midrib and nerves on both surfaces, more especially on the lower 

 surface; lateral nerves 4 or 5 on each of the midrib, prominent 

 on the lower surface, curved-ascending, anastomosing, the retic- 

 ulations few, lax ; petioles about 1 cm long, ferruginous-pubescent. 

 Inflorescence axillary, solitary, forked at the apex of the long 

 peduncle, the peduncle 3 to 4 cm long, the branches about 2 cm 

 in length, ferruginous-pubescent. Fruits ellipsoid or broadly 

 ovoid, sessile, about 6 mm long, glabrous or with few scattered 

 ferruginous hairs, one at the fork and 4 or 5 arranged in a single 

 row on each of the two branches. 



Luzon, Province of Sorsogon, Mount Kililibong, Bur. Sci. 28367 Ramos, 

 August 17, 1915, in forests near the summit, apparently at an altitude 

 of about 1,000 meters. 



The alliance of this species is with Timonious trichophorus Merr., of 

 Leyte, from which it differs in its differently shaped, fewer nerved leaves 

 and other characters. 



MUSSAENDA Linnaeus 



MUSSAENDA MULTIBRACTEATA sp. nov. 



Arbor parva, prominente hirsuta; foliis in paribus subae- 

 qualibus, membranaceis, ovatis, usque ad 20 cm longis, acumi- 

 natis, basi attenuatis, nervis utrinque circiter 11, prominentibus ; 

 inflorescentiis terminalibus, dense hirsutis, multibracteatis, 

 bracteis lanceolatis, hirsutis, subpersistentibus, ad 13 mm longis ; 



