264 The Philippine Journal of Science 1920 
A tree, the very young branchlets and inflorescences densely 
ferruginous-pubescent, otherwise glabrous or nearly so. Leaves 
11 to 15 cm long, the rachis and petioles sparingly pubescent, 
ultimately glabrous or nearly so; leaflets 5 or 7, coriaceous, 
oblong-ovate to oblong-elliptic, olivaceous, shining, 5 to 9 cm 
long, 2.5 to 5 em wide, the base usually broadly rounded, apex 
obtuse or broadly and obtusely acuminate; lateral nerves usually 
6 on each side of the midrib, slender, not prominent; petiolules 
5 to 7 mm long. Panicles terminal, branched from the base, 
about 20 cm long, the lower branches up to 13 cm in length. 
Flowers numerous, their pedicels about 1 cm long. Calyx dense- 
ly ferruginous-pubescent, about 1.5 cm in diameter, the lobes 
oblong-ovate, about 6 mm long, 4.5 mm wide, obtuse. Petals 
violet, glabrous, the standard reniform-orbicular, rounded, about 
13 mm wide, the claw stout, thick, with two anterior oblong, 
fleshy, 2.5 mm long appendages, wing and keel of the petals 
subequal, their claws 4 to 6 mm long. Filaments glabrous. 
Ovary oblong, densely pubescent, usually 3-ovulate. 
MINDANAO, Surigao Province, Bur. Sci. 34494 Ramos & Pas- 
casio, April 24, 1919, on ridges at low altitudes at the iron 
deposit on the northeast coast. 
The alliance of this species is not entirely clear, as the fruits 
are unknown. It is, however, radically different from all other 
species of the genus known to me. 
LINACEAE 
IXONANTHES Jack 
IXONANTHES LONGIPEDUNCULATA sp. nov. 
Arbor parva, glabra; foliis ellipticis ad elliptico-obovatis, 9 
ad 12 cm longis, apice rotundatis, basi acutis, coriaceis, nitidis, 
nervis utrinque circiter 8; infructescentiis axillaribus, longe 
pedunculatis, apice dichotome ramosis, ramis primariis circiter 
1 cm longis, pedunculis circiter 15 cm longis; capsulis oblongis, 
2.5 cm longis, sepalis persistentibus rotundato-ovatis, 5 ad 7 mm 
longis. 
A glabrous tree, 4 to 5 m high, the branchlets smooth, reddish- 
brown. Leaves elliptic to elliptic-obovate, rounded, the base 
usually acute and often narrowly decurrent along the petioles, 
brownish-olivaceous when dry, shining, 9 to 12 cm long, 5 to 
8 cm wide; lateral nerves about 8 on each side of the midrib, 
distinct, as are the reticulations. Petioles about 2 cm long. 
Infructescences axillary, solitary, 2-branched at the apex, the 
