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TETRAPLASANDRA A. Cray. 



Tetraplasandra philippinensis Merrill sp. nov. 



A tree S to 12 111. high, quite glabrous throughout, with 2 to 8 or 

 more jugate leaves, the Jt-aflots distantly obscurely crenate-serrate, and 

 7-merous flowers. Loaves alternate, the lower ones much larger than 

 (hose near the apices of the branches, the latter often reduced to 20 cm. 

 or less in length and 2 to :> jugate, the former SO cm. or more in length. 

 S or more jugate, the common petiole stout, jointed. Leaflets oblong- 

 ovate to oblong, glabrous and shining above, somewhat dull beneath, 

 10 to 16 em. long, 4 to 8 em. wide, the base rounded or acute, often 

 inequilateral, the apex usually very abruptly short acuminate, the margins 

 with few distant, scattered crenate-serrate, glandular teeth; nerves aboul 

 10 on each side of the midrib, irregular, the secondary nerves nearly as 

 prominent; petiolules 1 to 1.5 cm. long. Flowers in peduncled umbels 

 of (! to 10 flowers eaeli which are arranged in large racemose panicles, 

 the peduncles about 2 cm. long in anthesis, 5 cm. long in infrutescence. 

 whorlcd or alternate; pedicels 4 to 5 mm. long. Calyx cup-shaped or 

 somewhat funnel-shaped, 2.5 to 15 mm. long, the limb slightly produced, 

 truncate. Petals 7, lanceolate, acute, crested on the inside at the apex. 

 about 3.5 mm. long, 1.2 mm. wide. Stamens about 28, several seriate, 

 the inner much smaller; filaments 3 mm. long or less; anthers about 1 

 mm. long, the cells hut slightly united. Ovary 7 -celled ; stigma sessile. 

 Fruit ovoid, glabrous, about 8 mm. long, boldly 7 to 10 ridged. 



Palawan. Casuarina Point (3800. 3844 Outran) March. 1906. Back of the 

 beach and in forests alonp the seashore. 



No species of the <jcnus has previously been reported from the Philippines; of 

 the 8 described species, one is from New Guinea, one from Celebes, and the remain- 

 ing are from the Hawaiian Islands. The species here described as new is 

 apparently most closely related to the New Guinea species, Tetraplasandra 

 paucidens Miq., but differB from the latter in many characters. 



ERICACEAE. 



DIPLYCOSIA Plume. 



Diplycosia scandens Merrill sp. nov. 



A seandent more or less hispid pseudo-epiphytic shrub reaching a 

 height of 4 m., with ovate or narrowly-ovate, short acuminate or acute 

 leaves and fascicled flowers. Branches slender, gray or brown, the 

 younger ones rather strongly beset with long brown appressed bristly 

 hairs. Leaves coriaceous 3 to 4.5 cm. long, 1.5 to 2.5 cm. wide, the 

 base rounded, entire, gradually narrowed above, glabrous on the upper 

 surface or with very few hairs, beneath paler and with scattered bristly 

 hairs; petioles about .'i mm. long, densely bristly hairy; nerves 2 on 

 each side of the midrib, both below the middle of the Leaf. Flowers 



