270 The Philippine Journal of Science 1920 
at their apices outside. Staminal tube cylindric, toothed, 
glabrous on both surfaces, 3.5 mm long. Anthers usually 7, 
0.8 mm long. Disk glabrous, free, about 1 mm high. Ovary 
and stigma about 4 mm long, the stigma 1 mm in diameter, 
the ovary pubescent, no thicker than the glabrous style. 
S1aRGAO, Bur. Sci. 35021 Ramos & Pascasio, May 27, 1919, in 
forests at low altitudes. 
The alliance of this species is apparently with Dysorylum 
cumingianum C. DC., but the mature leaves are glabrous while 
the flowers are very much smaller than in the latter species, 
there being further many other differential characters; the two 
are not closely allied. 
DICHAPETALACEAE 
DICHAPETALUM Thouars 
DICHAPETALUM NITIDUM sp. nov. 
Frutex scandens, ramulis et petiolis et inflorescentiis pubes- 
cens; foliis coriaceis, olivaceis, nitidissimis, oblongis ad oblongo- 
lanceolatis, 10 ad 14 cm longis, basi acutis vel obtusis, apice 
leviter acuminatis, nervis utrinque circiter 6, reticulis ultimis 
utrinque distinctis; cymis pedunculatis, 3 ad 4 cm longis, dense — 
pubescens, petalis oblongo-obovatis, deorsum angustatis, 2 mm 
longis, apice retusis. 
A woody vine, the branchlets, petioles, and inflorescences 
more or less pubescent with short, yellowish-brown or ferru- 
ginous hairs, the younger parts densely pubescent. Branches 
reddish-brown when dry. Leaves coriaceous, olivaceous and 
strongly shining when dry, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 10 to 
14 em long, 2.5 to 4.4 em wide, the base acute or obtuse, nar- 
rowed upward to the somewhat acuminate apex; lateral nerves 
about 6 on each side of the midrib, curved, anastomosing, dis- 
tinct, the ultimate reticulations rather close, raised, and distinct 
on both surfaces; petioles about 1 cm long. Inflorescences 
peduncled, cymose, 3 to 4 cm long, dichotomously branched, up 
to 2 cm in diameter, the peduncles up to 2.5 cm long, the younger 
parts especially densely pubescent with short hairs. Pedicels 
about 1 mm long, twice as long as the lanceolate bracteoles. 
Flowers about 3.5 mm in diameter. Sepals densely pubescent, 
oblong, obtuse, 1.7 mm long. Petals glabrous, oblong-obovate, 
rounded, narrowed below, about 2 mm long, the apex minutely 
cleft for about 0.5 mm. Filaments about 1.2 mm long. Ovary 
densely lanate. 
MINDANAO, Surigao Province, Bur. Sci. 34596 Ramos & Pas- 
