IX, ©, 4 Merrill: Plantae Wenzelianae, II — 889 
long, spreading, pale hairs. Calyx truncate, about 3.5 mm long. 
Infructescence elongated, slender, the peduncles up to 4 em long, 
the branches nearly as long, slender. Fruits ovoid or somewhat 
ellipsoid, about 6 mm long, apparently somewhat fleshy when 
fresh, somewhat longitudinally striate or suleate, with few scat- 
tered hairs, the apex very densely hirsute, 15- to 20-celled. 
LEYTE, Buenavista, near Jaro, C. A. Wenzel 994, June 13, 1914, in forests, 
altitude about 500 m. 
A species strongly characterized by its numerous, long, spreading, pale 
or brownish, ciliate-hirsute hairs. It is entirely different, in this character, 
from all other Philippine species known to me. 
WILLIAMSIA Merrill 
WILLIAMSIA CAUDATA sp. nov. 
Frutex 2 ad 3 m altus, glaber; foliis usque ad 15 em longis, 
lanceolatis vel oblongo-lanceolatis, valde caudato-acuminatis, basi 
obtusis ad rotundatis, chartaceis vel subcoriaceis, nervis utrinque 
10 ad 12, valde prominentibus; floribus solitariis, axillaribus, 
sessilibus; calycibus circiter 5 mm longis, 4- vel 5- dentatis; 
petalis 6, patulis vel subreflexis, lanceolatis, 5 mm longis. 
A shrub 2 to 3 m high, entirely glabrous except for the throat 
of the corolla and for few scattered hairs on the calyx and stipules. 
Branches terete, brown or olivaceous, rather slender, the young 
branchlets usually verruculose when dry, greenish. Leaves 
lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, 10 
to 15 cm long, 3 to 6 cm wide, gradually narrowed upward to 
the long and slender caudate-acuminate apex, base rounded to 
obtuse, when dry pale or pale-greenish, somewhat shining; lat- 
eral nerves 10 to 12 on each side of the midrib, very prominent 
on the lower surface, curved-ascending, anastomosing; petioles 
1 to 1.5 cm long; stipules linear to linear-oblong, 1.5 to 2 cm 
long, blunt. Flowers white, sessile, axillary, solitary, 6-merous, 
the basal involucres two, the upper one much larger than the 
lower and as wide as the calyx cup-shaped to somewhat urceolate, 
about 5 mm long, with 4 or 5 broad teeth. Throat of the corolla 
densely villous ; petals spreading or somewhat reflexed, lanceolate, 
acuminate, about 8 mm long. Immature fruits glabrous, ovoid- 
urceolate, about 8 mm long. 
LEYTE, Buenavista, near Jaro, C. A. Wenzel 686, May 18, 1914 (type); 
also Wenzel 7, June, 1913, from near Dagami. In forests, altitude 60 to 
500 meters. 
Closely allied to Williamsia sablanensis (Elm.) Merr., with which species 
Wenzel 7 was previously identified. The leaves, however, are very different 
in shape, prominently caudate-acuminate, and the flowers are 6-merous. 
[Vol. IX, No. 3, including pages 191 to 292, was issued June 27, 1914. ] 
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