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Fruit before dehiscence apparently ovoid, glabrous, splitting into 
5 valves, the valves strongly recurved, very thickly coriaceous, 
almost woody, ovate to oblong-ovate, acute or acuminate, about 
1.2 cm long, longtudinally keeled along the inside and grooved 
along the back. Seeds obovoid, black and shining when dry, 
about 6 mm long. 
Luzon, Province of Rizal, Bosoboso, Bur. Sci. 977 Ramos (type), June, 
1906, in flower: Province of Pampanga, Mount Arayat, Merrill 3913, Oc- 
tober, 1904, For. Bur. 9619 Zschokke, October, 1907, both in fruit. 
This is in all probability the form that has been credited to the Phil- 
ippines by several authors as Turraea pubescens Hellen. The Philippine 
record was based on Vidal 1654 from Marinduque, which I have examined 
in the Kew Herbarium, and which I have noted as being matched by two 
of the specimens cited above as well as by Loher 4643 from Arayat. At 
the time the Kew material was examined it was noted that the Philippine 
material differed from 7. pubescens Hellen., in its differently shaped leaves, 
glabrous ovary, and larger, quite different fruit. I now have a specimen 
of Turraea pubescens in the herbarium of the Bureau of Science, Cochin- 
china, Pierre 2772, which confirms the above notes. The fruits are remark- 
ably different both in texture and in shape, the valves being merely coria- 
ceous and not reflexed. It is quite evident from the material at present 
available that the Philippine form is specifically very distinct from the 
one found in southeastern Asia, and that Turraea pubescens Hellen. does not 
extend to the Philippines. 
TURRAEA PALAWANENSIS sp. nov. § Huturraea. 
Suffrutex parvus, circiter 20 cm altus, erectus, partibus junior- 
ibus pubescentibus; foliis membranaceis, oblongis, usque ad 10 
cm longis, irregulariter lobatis vel undulato-lobatis, costa nervis- 
que subtus pubescentibus; racemis paucifloris; floribus 4 ad 4.5 
cm longis. 
A species similar and allied to Turraea humilis (Blanco) 
Merr., and 7. pumila Benn. An undershrub about 20 cm high, 
the woody parts slender, reddish-brown, glabrous or slightly 
pubescent, not or but sparingly branched, the growing parts 
gray-pubescent. Leaves alternate, oblong in general outline, 
membranaceous, 5 to 10 cm long, 2 to 4.5 cm wide, the apex 
obtuse, the base decurrent-acuminate, the margins irregularly 
lobed or undulate lobed, the lobes usually 3 on each side, the 
upper surface glabrous or nearly so, the lower one very slightly 
paler then the upper and more or less pubescent on the midrib 
and lateral nerves; lateral nerves 4 or 5 on each side of the 
midrib, prominent, usually forked, the reticulations very lax; 
petioles 2 cm long or less, pubescent. Racemes axillary, solitary, 
8-flowered or less, pubescent. Flowers white, 4 to 4.5 cm long, 
the bracts linear, 2 to 3 mm long. Calyx pubescent, the lobes 
5, linear, acuminate, pubescent, 6 to 8 mm long, about 1 mm 
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