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(! to 10 mm. wide, acute, densely pubescent outside and with few stel- 

 lately disposed hairs inside. Calyx about 2 em. Long, eleft down one 

 side, toothed at the apex, deciduous, densely pubescent outside, slightly 

 »i within. Corolla 6 cm. long- or less, yellow. Capsule oblong ovoid, 

 acute. 5-angled, 4 to 5 cm. long, about 2 em. thick, the valves some- 

 what pubescent outside and beset with simple bristle-like hairs, inside 

 Blightly pilose. Seeds many, pubescent, about 3.5 mm. long. 



LUZON, Province of Rizal, T;ui;n ( 2.T2S Merrill) May. 1903; Antipole (1307 

 Merrill) February, 1903; Bosoboso (lS(i4 Ahern'a collector) September, 1904. 

 Apparently a distinct species not at all closely related to Abelmoachus mosehatua 

 Moench., to which the first two numbers cited were referred by Perkins. Distin- 

 guished at once from the latter species by ils broad bracteoles, 



Abelmoschus multilobatus Merrill sp. nov. 



An erect branched herb 1 to 2 in. high, the vegetative portions beset 

 with few or many simple bristle-like hairs each from a small papilla. 

 otherwise glabrous, with deeply, narrowly palmately 7-lobed leaves, the 

 lobes again coarsely irregularly lyratcly lobed. Branches stout, terete, 

 the bristles usually numerous. Leaves 12 to 20 cm. long, deeply cordate, 

 I he lobes narrow, lanceolate, acuminate, •• to \1 cm. long, the lobules 

 :i cm. long or less, often coarsely irregularly toothed; petioles IS cm. 

 long or less, usually hispid ; Btipules linear, about 8 mm. long. Flowers 

 yellow, their pedicels 10 em. long or less. Bracteoles (i to S, lanceolate. 

 about L.5 cm. long. 5 mm. wide, acuminate, with few scattered hairs and 

 bristles, becoming nearly glabrous. Calyx rather densely pubescent out- 

 side, somewhat pilose within, about "i mm. long, deciduous, the apex 

 rather coarsely toothed. Petals yellow. (> to 8 cm. long. Ovary pubescent. 

 Stamina] column antheri ferous throughout. Capsule (immature) ovoid, 

 densely beset with simply disposed bristles, exceeding the bracteoles. 



Luzon, Province of Bataan, Lamao River (182(1. 1002 Borden) September, 

 November, 1904; (6739 Elmer) November, 1004: Province id' Union, Bauang (14 

 Fenia) October, L905. All the above were distributed as Abelmosehua moschatus 

 Moench., and the material from the Province of Bataan was so enumerated by 



I lie author.' 7 The species is. however, very distinct from .1. moschatus Moench. 



DILLENIACE^E. 



SAURAUIA W'illd. 



Saurauia dementis Merrill sp. nov. 



A shrnl) or small tree, the branches, leaves, and inflorescence with 

 numerous linear, subulate chaffy bristles. Branches terete, brown, the 

 bristles many, short and long intermixed. Leaves membranous, slightly 

 shining, elliptical-obovate to oblong-obovate, 10 to hi cm. long. 1 to 7 

 cm. wide, rather dark above, paler beneath, somewhat narrowed below 

 to the acute, rarely obtuse base, more abruptly narrowed above to the 

 short acuminate apex, both surfaces with numerous subulate bristles 



17 Phil. Journ. Science Suppl. (1906), 1: 92. 



