17,3 Merrill: Noteworthy Philippine Plants, XVI QAT 
its scabrous leaves. The collector gives the height of the tree 
as 25 meters with a trunk diameter of 1 meter. 
MORACEAE 
PHYLLOCHLAMYS Bureau 
PHYLLOCHLAMYS TAXOIDES (Heyne) Koord. Exkursionsfl. Java 2 
(1912) 89, var. PARVIFOLIA var. nov. 
A rigid, branched, spiny shrub, 1 to 3 m high, entirely gla- 
brous. Leaves chartaceous, oblong to elliptic-oblong or oblong- 
lanceolate, entire or with one or two teeth near their tips, acute 
to slightly acuminate, 2 to 4 cm long, 1 to 2.3 cm wide, the 
nerves not prominent. Pistillate flowers solitary, their pedicels 
about 4 mm long, each with a pair of bracteoles at about the 
middle, these ovate, obtuse, about 1 mm long. Sepals 4, in 
anthesis 4 to 8 mm long, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, not 
reticulate, slenderly acuminate, pale-green when fresh. 
PALAWAN, Lake Manguao, Merrill 9482, April 27, 1918, on 
steep, dry, forested banks, altitude about 70 meters. 
This is the first record for Phyllochlamys as Philippine, the 
form above described differing from the typical Indian P. tax- 
oides (Heyne) Koord. (P. spinosa Bureau) in its much smaller, 
not prominently nerved, entire or only slightly toothed leaves. 
It may ultimately prove to be specifically distinct, as it is rather 
different from the single Indian specimen I have for examina- 
tion, Wight 817. The species is widely distributed in India, 
but is reported from the Malay Archipelago only from Timor. 
PROTEACEAE 
HELICIA Loureiro 
HELICIA PAUCINERVIA sp. nov. 
Arbor parva glabra; foliis coriaceis, oblongo-ellipticis, utrin- 
que angustatis, basi acutis vel leviter decurrentibus, apice obtusis 
vel obtuse acuminatis, usque ad 14 cm longis, sursum distanter 
dentatis, vel integris, pagina superiore valde nitidis, nervis 
utrinque circiter 5, perspicuis; racemis lateralibus, e axillis 
defoliatis, circiter 20 cm longis; floribus solitariis vel binis, 2 
cm longis. 
A glabrous tree, about 5 m high, the branches dark reddish- 
brown. Leaves coriaceous, oblong-elliptic, narrowed to the 
acute or somewhat decurrent base and to the obtuse or bluntly 
acuminate apex, 10 to 14 cm long, 4.5 to 6 cm wide; the margins 
distantly and rather coarsely toothed above or sometimes entire, 
