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2.5 to 5 em wide, entire, apex obtuse, base usually slightly 
inequilateral, obtuse, subsessile or shortly petioled ; lateral nerves 
about 10 on each side of the midrib, prominent on the lower 
surface, the reticulations slender, subparallel; petioles 2 mm 
; long or less. Panicles terminal, each consisting of few elongated 
= branches, up to 22 cm in length, distinctly pubescent or puberu- 
= lent with short brownish hairs. Flowers numerous, green, soli- 
tary or somewhat fascicled, externally pubescent, the pedicels _ 
4 1 to 1.5 mm long. Calyx 3 mm in diameter, base acute, teeth 
ay triangular, acute, 1.2 mm long. Petals obcordate, 1 mm long, 
base cuneate. Filaments about 1 mm long, the anthers less 
than half as long. Young fruit densely pubescent, when mature 
or nearly so, including the wing, 3.5 cm long, 8 mm wide, 
4 brown, densely pubescent in the lower part, less pubescent above, 
ay the wing thin, brown when dry, the styles persistent as a minute, 
cleft apiculus. 
LEYTE, Buenavista, near Jaro, C. A. Wenzel 849, in forests, altitude about 
500 meters. 
A species well characterized by its rather numerously nerved, oblong, 
entire leaves. It is not closely allied to any other Philippine form so far 
collected. 
VITACEAE 
TETRASTIGMA Planchon 
TETRASTIGMA TRIFOLIOLATUM sp. nov. 
Frutex scandens, inflorescentiis parcissime pubescentibus ex- 
a ceptis glaber; foliis 3-foliolatis, foliolis subcoriaceis, in siccitate 
% brunneis, ellipticis ad oblongo-ellipticis, acuminatis, usque ad 20 
3 cm longis, margine irregulariter dentatis, nervis utrinque circiter 
a 8, reticulis obsoletis vel subobsoletis; infructescentiis axillari- 
a bus, circiter 7 cm longis, fructibus junioribus circiter 1.5 cm 
A longis. 
5 A scandent shrub, glabrous except the inflorescence, the 
branches dark-colored when dry, terete, lenticellate. Leaves 
3-foliolate, their petioles about 12 cm long; leaflets subcoriaceous, 
brown when dry, slightly shining, elliptic to oblong-elliptic, 14 
to 20 cm long, 7 to 10 cm wide, base acute, apex rather promi- 
nently acuminate, margins irregularly and rather coarsely 
toothed in the upper one-half; lateral nerves about 8 on each 
side of the midrib, slender, distinct, the reticulations obsolete or 
: nearly so; petiolules of the lateral leaflets 3 to 4 cm long, of the 
= terminal one, including the prolongation of the rachis 8 cm. 
Infructescence axillary, cymose, very slightly pubescent, the 
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