IX, C, 4 Merrill: Plantae Wenzelianae, II 387 
A shrub about 5 m high, the younger branchlets, the peduncles, 
and the lower surfaces of the leaves more or less pubescent. 
Branches terete, pale-gray, sometimes compressed at the nodes, 
the uppermost internodes sometimes hollow, perforated, some- 
what enlarged, and the abode of ants. Leaves coriaceous, broadly 
elliptic to obovate, 13 to 17 cm long, 8 to 12 em wide, brownish- 
olivaceous, shining, the upper surface glabrous, with prominently 
impressed nerves and reticulations, the lower surface pubescent 
with scattered hairs, apex abruptly caudate-acuminate, the 
acumen obtuse, 1.5 to 2 cm long, rather slender, the base acute 
or abruptly decurrent-acuminate; lateral nerves about 8 on each 
side of the midrib, very prominent as are the primary reticula- 
tions; petioles stout, 1.5 to 2 cm long. Heads terminal, solitary, 
their peduncles 3 to 4 cm long, prominently brown-pubescent, the 
heads in anthesis and in fruit globose, about 5 cm in diameter, 
the heads of persistent calyces after the corollas have fallen 1.5 
cm in diameter. Calyx tube about 3 mm long, with 6 linear- 
acicular, acuminate, stiff, persistent, 2 mm long lobes. Corolla 
white, glabrous, 11 mm long, the tube very slender, widened in 
the upper part, the lobes 6, pubescent, oblong, obtuse, 2 mm long. 
Style 2 cm long; stigma globose, 1 mm in diameter. Capsules 
6 mm long, apices pubescent. Seeds numerous, including the 
two laciniate wings, nearly 3 mm long. Bracts of the heads on 
the peduncles at or below the middle, brown, broadly ovate, 
obtuse, 1.5 cm long. 
LeyTE, Dagami, C. A. Wenzel 348, July 10, 1913, in forests, altitude about 
60 meters. ee 
A most striking species, well characterized by its very prominently nerved 
and reticulate leaves, in this character differing from all Philippine species, 
in its somewhat pubescent leaves and its pubescent peduncles, and especially 
in its 6-merous, not 5-merous flowers, it being the only species of the genus 
known to me with 6-merous flowers. In its seed characters it is also aber- 
rent in Nauclea, both wings being laciniate. 
PLECTRONIA Linnaeus 
PLECTRONIA WENZELII sp. nov. 
Arbor circiter 17 m alta, P. monstrosae similis et affinis, differt 
subtus foliis inflorescentiisque parce pubescentibus, nervis late- 
ralibus magis numerosis, utrinque circiter 8. 
A tree about 17 m high, nearly glabrous except the sparingly 
pubescent lower surfaces of the leaves and the more distinctly 
pubescent inflorescences. Branches terete, reddish-brown, 
smooth, glabrous, the branchlets usually somewhat compressed 
at the nodes, very slightly pubescent with scattered hairs. 
Leaves membranaceous, 12 to 15 cm long, 6 to 8 cm wide, elliptic- 
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