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narrowly obovoid to oblong-ellipsoid, about 1.5 cm long, 8 to 10 
mm in diameter, rounded at the apex, the valves 3, very thick. 
Luzon, Province of Pangasinan, Salasa, For. Bur. 11836 Domingo, 
November 20, 1912. 
Well characterized by its strongly shining leaves and its very thick 
capsule-valves. Not closely allied to Gymnosporia spinosa Merr. & Rolfe, 
the only other known Philippine species. 
EUONYMUS Linnaeus 
EVONYMUS VIBURNIFOLIUS (Juss.) comb. nov. 
Aegiphila viburnifolia Juss. in Ann. Mus. Paris 7 (1806) 76; Walp. 
Repert. 4 (1844-48) 124; Schauer in DC. Prodr. 11 (1847) 655. 
Euonymus philippinensis Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 3 (1908) Bot. 238. 
Jussieu’s species has long been a doubtful one, for manifestly it could 
not belong in the genus Aegiphila which is confined to tropical America. 
The type, Commerson, in Herb. Mus. Paris, was from the Philippines. The 
original specimen was examined and photographed by the late Dr. C. B. 
Robinson in November, 1911, and from an examination of the photograph 
and notes I am now able definitely to refer the species to the Celastraceae, 
and very definitely to the species I described a few years ago as Euonymus 
philippinensis. 
ICACINACEAE 
MIQUELIA Meissner 
MIQUELIA RETICULATA sp. nov. 
Scandens, partibus junioribus subtus foliis inflorescentiisque 
leviter breviter hirsutis; foliis oblongis, chartaceis, usque ad 17 
em longis, in siccitate pallidis, nitidis, apice tenuiter acuminatis, 
basi rotundatis leviter cordatisque, nervis lateralibus circiter 6, 
subtus cum reticulis laxis valde prominentibus; floribus 9? 
umbellatis, 4-meris, 3.5 mm longis. 
A scandent, apparently woody plant, the branchlets terete, 
pale when dry, slender, sparingly hirsute with short hairs. 
Leaves oblong, entire, 14 to 17 cm long, 4 to 6 cm wide, pale and 
somewhat shining when dry, the upper surface smooth and 
glabrous, the lower prominently reticulate and sparingly hirsute, 
the apex slenderly and prominently acuminate, somewhat 
narrowed below to the rounded and slightly cordate base; basal 
nerves 3 pairs, the lower two pairs very short, the lateral nerves 
above the base 5 or 6 on each side of the midrib, anastomosing, 
very prominent on the lower surface, the reticulations lax, 
prominent; petioles pale, 1.5 to 8 cm long, very sparingly hirsute. 
Female flowers umbellate, on slender, axillary, simple peduncles 
at anthesis about 3 cm long, elongated in fruit, about 10 in 
each umbel, the pedicels sparingly pubescent, slender, 6 to 8 
mm long. Calyx very minute or nearly obsolete. Petals 4, 
