7C 



2. B. acuminata Muell. Arg. 1. c. 442. 



(0422, 6753 Elmer) November; (399 Whitford) June; (G107 Leihe.rg) July; 

 (2189, 3009 Meyer) December, May: (1495 Ahem'a collector) July. In thickets 

 and forests 25 to 300 m. Endemic. 



6. CYCLOSTEMON Blume. 



1. C. bordenii Merr. Govt. Lab. Publ. 17 (1904) 26. 



(671, 673, 2372, 2396 Borden) May. January; (2398, 2415, 2811) Meyer) Jan- 

 uary, March; ( 1031 -Whitford) December; (333, 542, 546, 563, 573 Barnes) 

 February, March; (182 Merrill) Decades Philip. Forest FL, coll. Borden, May. In 

 forests 100 to 500 m. Endemic. T., IHIa dila, Talimorung. 



2. C. cumingii Hail 1. ; Muell. Arg. I. c. 48.-). 



(1269, 127") Whitford) May. On bluffs along the seashore. Endemic. 



:i. C. monospermus Merrill, sp. nov. § Stenogynium. 



A tree 4 to 12 m. high. Branches light gray or brownish, striate, glabrous, 

 lenticellate. Leaves coriaceous, elliptical oblong to broadly oblong lanceolate, 

 4 to !' cm. long. I to 4 cm. wide, the apex rounded, blunt or very obscurely broadly 

 acuminate, retusc. the base acute, regular or verv slightly inequilateral, glabrous, 

 shining above, dull beneath, the primary nerves 8 or 9 on each side of the midrib, 

 obscure, anastomosing, the secondary veins and reticulations nearly as prominent; 

 petioles glabrous, ."> to S mm. long. Male flowers fascicled, on short axillary 

 or extra-axillary bract eate peduncles, the buds globose. Sepals 4, broadly ellip- 

 tical-ovate to suborbicular ovate, rounded, glabrous except the slightly ciliate 

 margins, about 2 mm. long. Stamens 4: filaments 2 nun. long, glabrous; anthers 

 elliptical-ovoid, about I mm. long the alternating disk segments thick, fleshy, 

 narrowly ovate, about 1 mm. long. Female flowers with calyx of the male. 

 Ovary ovoid, glabrous. 2-celled, each cell 2-ovuled, the disk annular; style 0; 

 stigmas dilated, fleshy, more or less connate into a somewhat lobed disk. Fruit 

 about I cm. long. S mm. in diameter, glabrous, fleshy, white, becoming gray or 

 blackish when dry, ovoid or ellipsoid. I celled. L -seeded. 



(2802, 3122, 3235 Meyer) March. May, June; (1232 Whitford) April; (122.") 

 Borden) dune. In the upper forests and on exposed ridges in the mossy forest 

 650 to 1.250 m. 



4. C. microphyllus Merr. 1. c 27. 



(2260 Meyer) December; (175, 41)4 Barnes) January. November; (252, 340, 

 11)27. 122!) Whitford) May, December, April; (040, 072, s:so bis. 1253, 2:52!) 

 Harden) April, dune, December. In forests 100 to 800 m. Endemic. T., Tula- 

 morung, Irani. Pangirani, Tangnaranig. 



7. APOROSA Blume. 



1. Aporosa sphasridophora Merrill, sp. nov. 



A tree 10 to If) m. high. Branches dark reddish brown, striate, glabrous, the 

 older ones more or less grayish. Leaves alternate, subcoriaeeous. ovate to oblong 

 or elliptical ovate, acuminate, the base acute, rarely somewhat rounded, often 

 somewhat inequilateral, 8 to 15 cm. long, :i to 7 cm. wide, glabrous, dark colored 

 and dull or shining above, paler and shining beneath; nerves rather obscure 

 above, somewhat prominent beneath, ascending. to 7 on each side of the midrib, 

 the reticulations distinct; petioles 1 .."> to 2 cm. long, glabrous, somewhat swollen 

 and rugose above. Male flowers yellow, in dense, more or less interrupted, 

 simple, axillary spikes 2 to .") cm. long, the rhachis and bracts ferruginous pubes- 

 cent, the bracts subreniform. to broadly ovate, about 1..") mm. long. Sepals 4, in 

 two series, rounded at the apex, pubescent. 1 to 1.2 mm. long, the two inner ones 

 smaller than the two outer. Stamens 2; filaments glabrous. 2 to 2.5 mm. long; 



