IX, C, 4 Merrill: Plantae Wenzelianae, II 359 
ROSACEAE 
PYGEUM Gaertner 
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PYGEUM PUBESCENS sp. nov. 
Species P. glanduloso similis et affinis, differt foliis subtus dis- 
tinct pubescentibus, nervis utrinque magis numerosis, utrinque 
8 vel 9, spicis multo brevioribus, 2 ad 8 em longis. 
A tree reaching a height of 10 m, the branches terete, dark 
reddish-brown, slender, glabrous, obscurely lenticellate, the 
younger ones densely brown-pubescent. Leaves entire oblong- 
ovate to oblong, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, 10 to 15 cm long, 
4 to 6.5 cm wide, green or brownish when dry, the upper surface 
somewhat shining or dull, glabrous except for the pubescent mid- 
rib and lateral nerves, the lower surface paler, rather uniformly 
pubescent with scattered hairs, the midrib and nerves more 
densely pubescent than the surface otherwise, the apex obtuse 
to acuminate, the base acute the rounded, with two prominent 
glands, one on each side of the midrib, projecting on the upper 
surface, appearing as a small opening on the lower; lateral nerves 
about 8 on each side of the midrib, prominent; petioles pubescent, 
4 to 7 mm long; stipules oblong-ovate, pubescent, about 5 mm 
long, deciduous. Inflorescence of dense, axillary, solitary, pubes- 
cent spikes or spikelike racemes, 2 to 3 cm long. Flowers sessile 
or subsessile, crowded, each subtended by a reniform, pubescent 
bracteole about 1.5 mm wide. Calyx-tube funnel-shaped, about 
3 mm long, densely pubescent, with 10 similar or subsimilar lobes 
which are oblong, 1.5 mm long, densely pubescent. Stamens 20, 
the filaments 2 to 4 mm long. Ovary densely pubescent, nar- 
rowly ovoid, narrowed upward into the 3.5 mm long style. Fruit 
very broadly ovoid, about 12 mm in diameter, somewhat apiculate, 
sparingly pubescent. ; 
LEYTE, Dagami, C. A. Wenzel 18, 9, 217, 881, 883 (type), May to July, 
1918, in forests, altitude about 60 meters. SAMAR, Gandara, For. Bur. 
12885 Rosenbluth, February, 1909. 
Manifestly closely allied to the more northern Pygeum glandulosum 
Merr., differing in its pubescent, more numerously nerved leaves and in 
its short spikes. Its closest extra-Philippine ally appears to be the Malayan 
Pygeum parviflorum Teysm. & Binn. 
LEGUMINOSAE 
KUNSTLERIA Prain 
KUNSTLERIA PHILIPPINENSIS sp. nov. 
Frutex alte scandens, partibus junioribus subtus foliis ad costa 
nervisque inflorescentiis plus minusve ferrugineo-pubescentibus ; 
