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A small tree about 4 m high. Ultimate branches rather stout, dark- 
brown, glabrous or nearly so, nearly 1 cm in diameter, the growing parts 
smaller and densely ferruginous-villous. Leaves alternate, 40 cm long 
or less, the petiole, rachis, petiolules, and midrib and nerves on both 
surfaces of the leaflets densely ferruginous-villous; leaflets 5 to 11, 
elliptic to oblong-elliptic, coriaceous, 6 to 11 cm long, 3 to 6.5 em wide, 
the base broad, rounded, the apex also broad, rounded or very abruptly 
and shortly acuminate, the margins in the lower half entire, above with 
few, small, scattered teeth; nerves 8 to 10 on each side of the midrib, 
prominent, anastomosing, and with the rather lax primary reticulations 
impressed on the upper surface, prominent beneath; petiolules 12 mm 
long or less. Panicles terminal, as long as the leaves, the branches few, 
the lower ones often 15 to 20 cm long, all parts densely ferruginous- 
villous. Flowers white, subsessile, the bracteoles about 2 mm _ long. 
Calyx-segments 4 or 5, ovate to suborbicular, the outer ones smaller than 
the inner and more or less ferruginous-villous. Three larger petals 
orbicular, about 3 mm in diameter, the two smaller ones reduced to mere 
scales less than 1 mm long and adnate to the filaments. Fertile stamens 
2, the filaments less than 1.3 mm long. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Losod, Bur. Sci. 5594 Ramos, December, 1908. 
I am inclined to refer here also For, Bur, 15803 Curran, from the Kuyapa District 
in Benguet, but the specimen is with nearly mature fruit, and differs from the 
type in being very much less pubescent, possibly due to development. The 
fruits are narrowly obovoid, slighly compressed, and about 6 mm long. The 
two specimens in other characters than the pubescence are very similar. 
The species is well characterized by its dense ferruginous pubescence which 
extends even to the nerves on both sides of the leaflets, and by its very strongly 
reticulate leaflets. 
VITACEZ. 
LEEA Linn. 
Leea quadrifida sp. nov. 
Arbuscula circiter 1 m alta; foliis pinnatis, foliolis circiter 10, oblongis, 
acuminatis, nervis utrinque circiter 12, subtus glandulis numerosis, brun- 
neis, parvis sed prominentibus, conspersis; cymis brevibus, floribus con- 
gestis, 4-meris. 
A shrub about 1 m high. Branches brown, somewhat pubescent. 
Leaves alternate, simply pinnate, 40 to 50 cm long, the rachis prominently 
longitudinally sulcate, the petiole not dilated at the base, when very 
young’ brown-puberulent. Leaflets oblong, firmly chartaceous, 14 to 20 
cm long, 5 to 6 cm wide, the apex rather prominently acuminate, the 
base rounded, very slightly inequilateral, the margins obscurely and 
distantly crenulate or denticulate, the upper surface smooth, glabrous, 
grayish and somewhat shining when dry, the lower surface brown, pubes- 
cent or puberulent on the nerves and midrib, the whole surface with 
numerous, small, elevated, brown glands distinctly visible to the naked 
