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ferruginous pubescent. Leaves 10 to 20 cm. long, 5 to 12 em. wide, 

 submembranous, the base broad, cordate, usually somewhat inequilateral, 

 the apex acuminate, the margins rather finely irregularly serrate, pubes- 

 cent on the nerves and midrib above, paler and rather densely stellate 

 pubescent beneath, the base 5-nerved, the lateral nerves prominent, 5 

 to 6 on each side of the midrib, ascending, the reticulations rather lax; 

 petioles 5 to 10 mm. long, densely pubescent. Inflorescence of axillary, 

 pednncled cymes 4 to 7 cm. long, the peduncles, branches, pedicels, and 

 calyces densely uniformly ferruginous stellate pubescent, the peduncles 

 1.5 to 3 cm. long. Pedicels about 5 mm. long. Sepals free, oblong, 

 acute, 7 to 8 mm. long, about 2.5 mm. wide, densely stellate pubescent 

 outside, glabrous inside. Petals 5, about 6 nun. long, 1.5 to 2 mm. wide, 

 acute, glabrous except at the thickened base which is rather densely 

 pubescent. Stamens indefinite, inserted on the inside of a short densely 

 villous disk; filaments slender, glabrous, 3 to 4 mm. long; anthers broad, 

 about 0.5 mm. long. Ovary sessile, oblong, densely villous, 3-celled, 

 each cell many ovuled. Style about 1.5 mm. long, expanded upward 

 into the broad somewhat cleft stigma. Capsule nearly 1 cm. long, 

 triangular, 3-valved, the style persistent, the valves pale and glabrous 

 inside, densely ferruginous villous outside. Seeds many, 1.5 to 2 mm. 

 long, compressed, the hairs of the arillus long. 



Luzon, Province of Ilizal, Antipolo (398 Ahern's collector) February, 1904; 

 Bosoboso (1161 Ahern's collector) June, 1904. Mindoro, Bongabong River (1391 

 Whitford) January, 1906. 



The first species of the genua to be reported from the Philippines, differing from 

 all other described ones in its 3-valved capsules. Of the three other known species 

 of the genus one is found in Java, one in the Fiji Islands, and one in Perak and 

 the Nicobar Islands. 



MALVACEvE. 



ABELMOSCHUS Medik. 



Abelmoschus luzoniensis .Merrill sp. now A., ntosohatua Perk. Frag. Fl. Philip. 

 (1904) 111, in part. 

 An erect, herbaceous, somewhat branched annual, the vegetative por- 

 tions densely velutinous pubescent and with scattered simple or stel- 

 latelv disposed bristle-like hairs, the bracteoles 5 to 7, ovate-lanceolate. 

 Branches terete, the pubescence and bristles cinereous to fulvous, the latter 

 few or many. Leaves 9 to 15 cm. long, cordate, deeply palmately 5-lobed, 

 rather densely pubescent on both surfaces and with few or many stellately 

 disposed bristle-like hairs, the outer lobes sbort, the others 7 to 13 cm. 

 long, lanceolate, rather coarsely lyratelv lobed. acuminate; petioles 8 cm. 

 long or less, densely pubescent and with few bristles; stipules linear, 

 about 7 mm. long. Flowers forming terminal racemes, yellow, Ihe 

 pedicels equaling the petioles, similarly pubescent. Bracteoles ovate 

 lanceolate to oblong, 5 to 7, at length deciduous, 1 to 2.5 cm. long. 



