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sunk in the disk, glabrous, triangular, 3-celled, the stigma sub- 

 sessile, minutely 3-lobed. Fruits unknown. 



Luzon, Tayabas Province, Umiray, Bur. Sci. 28958 Ramos & Edano, 

 June 2, 1917, in forests along the Umiray River. 



This most characteristic species is readily distinguished by its pale, 

 elliptic, rounded leaves and especially by its petals being conspicuously 

 pilose in the upper one-half inside, the hairs about 1 mm long. In its 

 petal characters it is very similar to Hippocratea cumingii Laws., which 

 must be typified by the Malacca specimen cited {Griffith) to which the 

 description applies; the Philippine specimen, Cuming 1725 from Samar, 

 is not cited by Lawson in the original description and may or may not 

 represent the same species as the Malacca one. 



SALACIA Linnaeus 



SALACIA EUPHLEBIA sp. nov. 



Frutex scandens, glaber, ramis teretibus, junioribus obscure 

 angulatis; foliis oblongis, coriaceis, olivaceis, nitidis, usque ad 

 15 cm longis, basi acutis ad subrotundatis, apice acuminatis, 

 margine distanter apiculato-serrulatis ; nervis utrinque circiter 9, 

 subtus prominentibus, anastomosantibus, reticulis laxis, distinc- 

 tis; inflorescentiis axillaribus, solitariis, quam petiolo breviori- 

 bus, depauperato-cymosis vel floribus fasciculatis ; floribus 5- 

 meris, circiter 3 mm longis, breviter pedicellatis. 



A scandent glabrous shrub at least 3 m high, the branches 

 pale-brownish or grayish, terete, or the younger ones obscurely 

 angled, often pruinose. Leaves opposite, coriaceous, oblong, 

 olivaceous, shining, of the same color on both surfaces, 9 to 15 

 cm long, 3.5 to 5 cm wide, base acute to somewhat rounded, 

 apex distinctly acuminate, margins distantly apiculate-serrulate ; 

 lateral nerves about 8 on each side of the midrib, very prominent 

 on the lower surface, spreading, somewhat curved-anastomosing, 

 the primary reticulations distinct; petioles 5 to 8 mm long. In- 

 florescences axillary, solitary, very few-flowered, depauperate- 

 cymose, the rachis once forked, or simple, very short, supplied 

 with small bracts, or sometimes the inflorescence reduced to a 

 fascicle; when a depauperate cyme but from 1 to 3 flowers pro- 

 duced at one time. Pedicels about 1 mm long. Flowers 5- 

 merous, oblong, about 3 mm long. Calyx-lobes broadly ovate, 

 rounded, about 1 mm long and wide. Petals oblong, rounded, 

 about 2.8 mm long. Disk prominent, cylindric, enclosing the 

 ovary, about 1 mm high. Filaments flattened, 0.8 mm long. 



Mindanao, Surigao Province, Placer, Wenzel 1867, July 4, 1916, in 

 forests, altitude about 150 meters, the flowers greenish-yellow. 



A species well characterized by its oblong, apiculate-denticulate, promi- 

 nently nerved leaves, its greatly reduced inflorescences, and short-pedicelled 



