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4. ARGOSTEMMA Wall. 



1. A. neesianum Walp. Nov. Act. Acad. Cur. 19 (1843) Suppl. 1: 349. 



(3126 Merrill) October; ( (Hi.")? Elmer) November: (97. 183, 435 Whit ford) 

 April. June; (290 Copeland) January. On damp mossy ledges along streams 

 100 to 600 m. Endemic. 



5. WENDLANDIA l'.artl. 



1. Wendlandia brachyantha Merrill, sp. nov. 



A shrub or small tree about 5 m. high. Branches brown, glabrous, striate, 

 the younger parts often densely ferruginous pubescent. Leaves oblong ovate to 

 ovate lanceolate, coriaceous, entirely glabrous, or the midrib beneath somewhat 

 pubescent, to 12 cm. long, 3 to 5 cm. wide, brown when dry. shining on both 

 surfaces but somewhat paler beneath, entire, short acuminate, the base acute or 

 obscurely rounded; nerves prominent beneath, 10 to 12 pairs; petioles 1 to 1.5 cm. 

 long, pubescent or glabrous; stipules entire. Panicles terminal, pyramidal, many 

 flowered, 12 to IS cm. long, very densely ferruginous pubescent in anthesis. 

 becoming more or less glabrous in infrutescence. the lower blanches about 5 

 cm. long, the upper gradually shorter. Flowers white, sessile or short pedi- 

 eelled, about 4 mm. long, each subtended by one or two linear pubescent 

 bracteoles. Calyx cup-shaped, 1.7 mm. long, densely pubescent, 5-toothed, the 

 teeth short, acute. Corolla, including the lobes. :S mm. long, glabrous or with 

 few ciliate hairs on the inner side of the corolla lobes, the tube about 2 mm. 

 long, the 5 lobes elliptical, rounded, rettexed, about 1 mm. long. Stamens equal- 

 ing the corolla lobes; anthers 1 mm. long. Style 2 mm. long, glabrous; stigmas 

 OOOVOid. Fruit ovoid or suhglobose. about 2 mm. in diameter, pubescent with 

 few short scattered hairs, crowned by the persistent calyx lobes. 



(44!) Whitford) July, 1904 (type). On exposed ridges in the mossy forests 

 at 1,100 m. Also No. 3834 Merrill, Mount Arayat. Province of Painpanga, Luzon. 

 May, 1904, at an altitude of 870 m. 



A species at once distinguishable from Wendlandia IwsonienaU DC, by its 

 smaller glabrous leaves and very short flowers. Wendlandia panieulala Elmer, 

 in herb., non DC. 



6. UNCARIA Bchreb. 



1. U. sp. 



[Whitford). In thickets below 100 m., sterile specimen. 



7. NAUCLEA Linn. 



1. N. media Baviland, Journ. Linn. Soe. P>ot. 33 (1897) •'><>. 



(312.5 Merrill) October; (2817 Meyer) March. In forests, river canon 100 to 

 450 m. Endemic. 



2. N. philippinensis (Vid.) Haviland 1. c. 52. 



(262!) Meyer) February; (1158 Whitford) March. In forests 009 to 900 m. 

 Endemic. 



8. SARCOCEPHALUS Afzel. 



1. S. cordatus Miq. ; Haviland 1. c. 27. 



(374 Whitford) .June: (727. 1203. 1380, 1391. 1568 Borden) May to August. 

 In thickets and forests below 150 in., widely distributed in the Philippines. 

 Southeastern Asia to Malaya and Australia. 'I 1 ., Banoal. 



9. MUSS/ENDA Linn. 



1. M. grandiflora (Meyen) Rolfe, Journ. Linn. Soc. Lot. 21 (1884) 311. 

 (6095 Leibery) duly. (1220 Borden) June: (388. 524 Whitford) June. July; 



