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datum Wall., Aleurodendron album Reinw., Melochia velutina Bedd., and 
Hypericum pentandrum Blanco. 
I am indebted to Sir D. Prain, director, Royal Gardens, Kew, for refer- 
ences from the publications of Houttuyn and Gmelin, which are not avail- 
able in Manila, and for a memorandum covering the case as to the oldest 
specific name for the species. 
BUETTNERIA Linnaeus 
BUETTNERIA ECHINATA Wall. Cat. (1829) no. 1149; Gagnep. in Le- 
comte Fl. Gén. Indo-China 1 (1911) 520. 
MINDORO, near Calapan, Bur. Sci. 21268 Escritor, July, 1913. 
The identification has been made after Gagnepain, the Mindoro specimen 
agreeing well with Pierre 3746 from Tay-ninh, Cochin China, so named by 
Gagnepain, and with his description of the species. Masters refers the 
Wallichian species with doubt to Buettneria crenulata Wall., while Gagne- 
pain cites the latter as a synonym of B. echinata. The genus is new to the 
Philippines. 
Nepal and Burma to Indo-China. 
THEACEAE 
ADINANDRA Jack 
ADINANDRA ROSTRATA sp. nov. 
Arbor circiter 30 m alta partibus junioribus exceptis glabra; 
foliis subcoriaceis, nitidis, oblongo-ovatis vel oblongo-ellipticis, 
integris, usque ad 14 em longis, utrinque angustatis, apice acumi- 
natis, basi acutis vel decurrento-acuminatis, nervis utrinque 
circiter 14, tenuibus; fructibus axillaribus, solitariis, longe 
pedunculatis, ovoideis, 1.5 cm longis, longe caudato-rostratis. 
A tree about 30 m high, glabrous except the branchlets (flowers 
not seen). Branches terete, brownish, glabrous, the branchlets 
sparingly pilose, the tips rather densely so. Leaves entire, 
subcoriaceous, the younger ones thinner, oblong-ovate to oblong- 
elliptic, 8 to 14 cm long, 3.5 to 6.5 cm wide, narrowed at both 
ends, the apex acuminate, the base acute or decurrent-acuminate, 
shining, of about the same color on both surfaces and somewhat 
yellowish when dry; lateral primary nerves about 14 on each side 
of the midrib, slender, anastomosing, the reticulations rather lax; 
petioles 5 to 10 mm long. Flowers not seen. Fruits axillary, 
solitary, their peduncles 4 cm long, the persistent sepals subor- 
bicular to subreniform, coriaceous, glabrous, rounded, about 
8 mm wide, the outer ones somewhat smaller than the inner, 
the fruit ovoid, about 1.5 cm long, 1.2 to 1.4 mm thick, glabrous, 
prominently caudate-rostrate, the beak 1 to 1.4 cm long, 3-celled, 
the pericarp thick. Seeds two or three in each cell, about 6 
