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cm long and 9 cm wide, the bracts linear-lanceolate, 4 to 5 mm 

 long, the bracteoles numerous, similar to the bracts but about 

 1 mm long. Calyx truncate, cup-shaped, 3 mm in diameter, 

 glabrous or nearly so. Fruits globose, about 3.5 mm in diameter. 



Luzon, Cagayan Province, Pamplona, For. Bur. 26967 Velasco, August 

 9, 1917, in forests, altitude about 60 meters. 



A most remarkable species, well characterized by its very large, entire, 

 slenderly acuminate leaves which are glabrous above and densely matted- 

 puberulent on the lower surface with a pale-brownish, shining, non-stellate 

 indumentum; glands, if present, are entirely obscured by the indumentum. 



VITEX Linnaeus 



VITEX CELEBICA Koord. Meded. Lands Plantent. 19 (1898) 560, 645. 



Mindanao, Cotabato District, For. Bur. 6543 Hutchinson, March, 1907, 

 For. Bur. 15420 Pray, March, 1910: Zamboanga District, Siag River, 

 For. Bur. 13383 Foxworthy, DeMesa, & Villamil, May 29, 1912; Butuan 

 Subprovince, Amparo, For. Bur. 20746 Rafael & Ponce, October 10, 1913: 

 Davao District, Mount Apo, Elmer 11602, September, 1909, distributed as 

 V. pentaphylla Merr. 



A species previously known only from Celebes, our Philippine material 

 agreeing closely with the description and with Celebes specimens in all 

 essential characters. In Cotabato it is known as calipapa-aso, molave-aso, 

 calipapa, and calipapa-madam ; and in Zamboanga as limpapa and himulauin. 



SOLANACEAE 



SOLANUM Linnaeus 

 SOLAN UM LU20NIENSE sp. nov. 



Frutex erectus, ramosus, 0.5 ad 1 m altus, plus minusve pal- 

 lide stellato-tomentosus, ramis teretibus aculeis sparsis rectis 

 circiter 2 mm longis armatis; foliis membranaceis, oblongis, 

 integris, in siccitate subolivaceis, acuminatis, basi acutis, plerum- 

 que obscure inaequilateralibus, nervis utrinque circiter 5, te- 

 nuibus, curvatis, anastomosantibus ; cymis extra-axillaribus ter- 

 minalibusque, circiter 3 cm longis, breviter pedunculatis, stellato- 

 tomentosis; floribus extus stellato-tomentosis, circiter 8 mm 

 longis, violaceis; fructibus globosis, glabris, carnosis, inermis, 

 coccineis, circiter 6 mm diametro. 



An erect, branched, sparingly aculeate, more or less stellate- 

 tomentose shrub or undershrub 0.5 to 1 m high, the branches 

 terete, reddish-brown, sparingly cinereous-stellate-tomentose, 

 with scattered, straight, sharp spines about 2 mm in length, the 

 young branchlets rather densely stellate-tomentose. Leaves al- 

 ternate, membranaceous, subolivaceous when dry, slightly shin- 

 ing, the lower surface paler than the upper and more pubescent, 

 oblong, entire or obscurely undulate, acuminate, base usually 



