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appressed scale-like hairs, the upper surface quite glabrous or with few 

 scales on the midrib, the margins spinulose serrate, often obscurely so, 

 the apex short acuminate, narrowed below to the acute base; nerves aboui 

 1.'5 on both sides of the midrib, distinct beneath, anastomosing', the reticu- 

 lations netted, distinct; petioles 1 to 2 em. long, ('vines few flowered, 

 strigose, the bracts and braeteoles linear, acute or apiculate, 3 to 4 mm. 

 long. 1 mm. wide. Flowers pink, about 13 mm. in diameter. Sepals 

 5, equal, oblong-ovate of oblong-obovate, 6 mm. long, t mm. wide, 

 rounded at the apex, outside ferruginous pubescent or puboruleiit and 

 beset with pale, strigose. awl-shaped, scale-like hairs 1 to 2 mm. long. 

 Corolla glabrous, the lobes 5, oblong-ovate, irregularly ret use at the apex, 

 about < mm. long, I to ."> mm. wide. Stamens 2(1; lilameiits more or less 

 united, about 2.5 mm. long; anthers nearly 15 mm. long. Ovary minutely 

 densely pubescent. 3-celled; styles :'>, about -\ mm. long, slightly united 

 at the base. 



Luzon, Province of Rizal, Bosoboao c>!>0-2. 3101 Ahern'a collector) March, May, 



1905. 



VIOLATIVE. 



RINOREA Aubl. 



Rinorea palawanensis Merrill Bp. nov. § Prothesia. 



A shrub 2 to I m. high with membranous, nearly glabrous, oblong to 

 obovate-oblong, acuminate leaves and few, axillary, fascicled or race- 

 mosely disposed flowers, the anther cells with a short mucro, the con- 

 nective with a large, ovate appendage. Branches gray, becoming gla- 

 brous, the younger ones somewhat pubescent. Leaves alternate. 15 to 2"} 

 cm. long, <> to 9 cm. wide, irregularly crenate-dentate to subentire, shin- 

 ing, paler beneath, slightly pubescent on the nerves and midrib beneath, 

 becoming quite glabrous, usually rather prominently acuminate, narrowed 

 below to the rather abruptly acute, often somewhat inequilateral base; 

 nerves 12 to 13 on each side of the midrib, distinct, distant 1.5 to :> cm., 

 anastomosing, the reticulations lax, distinct. Flowers fascicled or in 

 short few flowered racemes, about 5 mm. Jong, greenish, the inflorescence 

 pubescent, the pedicels (i mm. long or less, the sepals and petals accrescent 

 in fruit and persistent. Sepals narrowly ovate, acute, densely hirsute 

 pubescent outside, less so within. Petals narrowly ovate, acute. 'A to -1 

 mm. long, somewhat pubescent outside. Stamens from the margin of 

 the disk; anthers broadly ovate, L.5 to 1.7 mm. long, each cell tipped 

 with short mucro <>.:> mm. long or less, the coimeetive witli a broad, ovate, 

 acute, subhyaline appendage from the middle, nearly L.5 mm. long. 

 Ovary somewhat ferruginous hirsute; style '1 mm. long, narrowed above. 

 Capsule ovoid, 1 cm. long, obtusely obscurely o-angled, glabrous or with 

 \'r\v ferruginous hairs. Seeds few, glabrous, shining. 



Palawan, Puerto Princesa ("i.Vi Bermejos) December, 1905; (3529 Curran) 

 January, 1906. In forests. 



