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glabrous outside, inside at the throat supplied with a dense 

 line of stiff hairs about as long as the lobe. Anthers 1 mm long, 

 base sparingly retrorse-bearded. Ovary ovoid, glabrous, some- 

 what longer than the style. Fruit ellipsoid, brown, smooth, 

 shining when dry, about 1 cm long, the pericarp crustaceous. 

 Seed solitary, somewhat hemispheric, flattened on one side, about 

 8 mm long. 



Leyte, near Tacloban, Wensel 1319 (type), 1569, and two sheets without 

 number, flowering in June, fruiting in February, 1915. Samar, Catubig 

 River at Mount Capatoan, Bur. Sci. 2A381 Ramos, February 20, 191ti, in 

 fruit. 



The species grows in forests at low and medium altitudes, and is known 

 in Samar as mara igasud, and in Leyte as igasud, the latter being the 

 proper name of the entirely different Strychnos ignatii Berg. Strychnos 

 wenzelii Merr. is a very distinct and characteristic species, readily dis- 

 tinguishable by its castaneous, strongly shining leaves, and its small, one- 

 seeded fruits. Its alliance is with Strychnos horsfieldiarut Miq., from which, 

 however, it differs in many details, its leaves not attenuate-acuminate, 

 5-nerved rather than 3-nerved, quite glabrous beneath, its glabrous branches 

 and branchlets, and its corolla entirely glabrous externally. 



VERBENACEAE 

 PREMNA Linnaeus 

 PREMNA STELLATA sp. nov. 



Arbor 5 ad 10 m alta, subtus foliis ad costa nervisque petiolis 

 inflorescentiisque plus minusve cinereo- vel subferrugineo- sim- 

 pliciter stellato-tomentosis ; foliis chartaceis, ovatis ad oblongo- 

 ovatis, usque ad 20 cm longis, integris, nitidis, apice abrupte 

 acuminatis, basi late rotundatis ad subtruncatis, nervis utrinque 

 4 ad 6, subtus valde prominentibus ; inflorescentiis terminalibus, 

 corymbosis, pedunculatis, usque ad 11 cm latis; floribus extus 

 stellato-tomentosis, calycis obscure bilabiatis, subaequaliter 5-den- 

 tatis ; corolla 5 mm longa, labium superius cucullatum, orbiculari- 

 rotundatum, usque ad 2.5 mm diametro, inferius trifidum. 



A tree 5 to 10 m high, the branchlets densely stellate-tomen- 

 tose, the leaves on the lower surface, especially on the midrib 

 arid lateral nerves rather sparingly so, the inflorescence distinctly, 

 and when young, densely stellate-tomentose. Branches terete, 

 or the younger ones compressed, pale-brownish, glabrous, the 

 branchlets stellate-tomentose, all the hairs stellate, no plumose 

 and no simple ones intermixed. Leaves chartaceous, pale or 

 olivaceous when dry, somewhat shining, ovate to oblong-ovate, 

 entire, 9 to 20 cm long, 7 to 12 cm wide, the apex abruptly 

 acuminate, the acumen blunt or acute, 1 cm long or less, the 

 base broadly rounded or subtruncate, not cordate, the upper 



