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culis axillaribus, usque ad 35 cm longis, densissime velutinis, 

 angustis ; floribus $ infundibuliformibus, circiter 6.5 mm longis, 

 lobis oblongo-ovatis, liberis, acutis, rubris, in siccitate purpureis, 

 extus velutinis, intus dense villosis. 



A tall tree, the trunk said to be about 1 m in diameter, the 

 branches and branchlets terete, brown, the latter 1 to 1.5 cm in 

 diameter, marked with large petiolar scars, puberulent. Leaves 

 crowded at the ends of the branchlets, ovate, entire, subcoria- 

 ceous, 15 to 25 cm long, 10 to 17 cm wide, the upper surface 

 greenish-olivaceous when dry, glabrous, shining, the lower paler, 

 minutely stellate-puberulent, the minute tufts of hairs scattered, 

 the indumentum not covering the entire surface, apex abruptly 

 and very shortly acuminate, the base truncate-rounded, not cor- 

 date, 7- or 9-nerved; lateral nerves about 10 on each side of the 

 midrib, prominent; stipules few, linear, accuminate, deciduous, 

 about 5 mm long ; petioles 3 to 12 cm long, puberulent, ultimately 

 glabrous. Panicles axillary, rather numerous, narrow, up to 35 

 cm in length, all parts densely velutinous with pale-brownish or 

 purplish hairs, the branches scattered, spreading, the lower ones 

 up to 7 cm in length, rather few flowered. Flowers red when 

 fresh, usually purplish when dry, funnel-shaped, 6 to 7 mm long, 

 outside densely velutinous, inside densely villous, the lobes 5, 

 oblong-ovate, acute, 2.5 mm long. Staminal column slender, 

 about 3 mm long ; anthers about 10, forming a globose head about 

 1 mm in diameter. 



Samar, Catubig River at Cagmanaba, Bur. Sci. 24549 Ramos (type), 

 February 28, 1916. Luzon, Province of Camarines, Sagnay, Bur. Sci. 

 221S8 Ramos, December 17, 1913, in damp forests at low altitudes, locally 

 known in Samar as palapangui. 



A species well characterized by its thickened branches, few stipules, 

 rather large, ovate, shortly acuminate, entire leaves which are minutely 

 stellate-puberulent on the lower surface with scattered hairs, and its 

 elongated, lax, densely velutinous panicles. It is perhaps as closely allied 

 to Sterculia wigmanni Hochr. as to any other species, but it has very much 

 larger flowers, a different indumentum, and different leaves. 



THEACEAE 



TERNSTROEMIA Mutis 

 TERNSTROEMIA PHILIPPINENSIS sp. nov. 



Arbor glabra, circiter 15 m alta ; foliis crasse coriaceis, nitidis, 

 in siccitate brunneis vel olivaceis, oblongis ad oblongo-oblanceo- 

 latis, usque ad 25 cm longis, breviter obtuseque acuminatis, basi 

 angustatis, cuneatis, nervis utrinque circiter 12, indistinctis, 

 pagina inferiore nigro-puncticulatis vel glandulosis; floribus 



