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 anastomosing, the margins slightly ciliate. Corolla about I mm. long 



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pale or purplish, the lateral lobes 2.3 mm. long, 1.3 mm. wide, obovate, 



obtuse, reticulate, the keel about 3 mm. long, crested, the crest purple, 

 fimbriate, 1 to 1.3 mm. long. Filaments slender, about 1 mm. long; 

 anthers oblong-obovoid, about 0.3 mm. long. Ovary sparingly ciliate, 

 compressed; style glabrous, about 3 mm. long the stigma lateral. Cap- 

 sule elliptical, flattened, membranous laxly reticulate veined, about 

 4.5 mm. long, with very narrow marginal wings which are sparingly 

 ciliate. Seed elliptical or oblong elliptical, black. 3 mm. long, stro- 

 phiolate, densely hirsute especially, above with, grayish or brownish hairs, 

 the strophiole nearly white, about 0.8 mm. long, 3-appendiculate. 



Luzon, Province of Benguet, Ambuklao to Daklan (4401 Merrill) October 25, 

 11)05, in open grass lands at about 1,000 in.; Bued River (42(i.'S Merrill) October 

 20. lOO.l, on open rock slopes at about 1,000 in. 



SALOMONIA Lour. 



Salomonia cylindrica Blume. Epirhiganthe oylindrica Blume; Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. 1 (1850) 2: 128. t 15. 



Luzon, Province of Benguet, Sablan (6054 Elmer) April. 1904. 



This species is here first credited to the Philippines, and is apparently rare, 

 as Mr. Elmer found but three individuals, and no other collector has as yet 

 detected it in the Philippines. It was previously known from Java and Sumatra. 

 The Philippine Bpecimena are evidently referable to Blume'a species, rather than 

 to the more widely distributed Salomonia aphylla Griff., which extends from 

 China to Borneo, Malacca and Tenasserim. 



EUPHORBIACE^. 



BACCAUREA Lour. 



Baccaurea gracilis Merrill sp. now | l'ierardia. 



A tree to 10 m. high, quite glabrous throughout, with membranous 

 oblong to oblong-lanceolate leaves, slender fascicled racemes of staminate 

 flowers, the pistillate inflorescence short, racemose, both from the slender 

 branches below the leaves and in the axils of the lower leaves. Branches 

 light gray or brown, slender, terete, lenticellate, glabrous. Leaves 

 shining on both surfaces, 10 to 16 cm. long, 3 to 5 cm. wide, short 

 acuminate, the base acute, entire, glabrous: primary nerves 10 to 12 on 

 each -side of the midrib, spreading, distant, the secondary nerves and 

 reticulations evident, rather lax; petioles rather stout, about < r > mm. long. 

 Staminate inflorescence: Racemes slender, glabrous, 5 to 9 cm. long, 1 to 

 I in the axils of the lower leaves or of fallen leaves, the flowers glomerate, 

 about 10 in each glomerule, the glomerules scattered, bracts small, the 

 pedicels very short. Sepals 5, imbricate, glabrous, orbicular, about 

 L.3 mm. long. Petals 0. Stamens 5, the filaments very short: anthers 

 1 mm. long. Rudimentary ovary present, glabrous, 2-cleft, the disk want- 

 ing. Pistillate inflorescence: Racemes 5 mm. long or less, sometimes 

 reduced to fascicles in the axils of fallen leaves. Sepals 5. Ovary 



