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6. Follicles subcylindric, usually straight, not or but slightly inflated, 



about 4 cm long 7. C. hallieri 



6. Follicles inflated, 2.5 cm long or less. 



7. Petals free throughout 8. C. mindanaensis 



7. Petals free below, inflated, but above the ovary their margins 



adherent, forming a narrow short tube 9. C. whitfordii 



4. Leaflets more or less ferruginous-pubescent beneath ; follicles large, 

 woody, 5 cm long - 10. C. subinaequifolius 



1. Connarus trifoliatus (Turcz.) Rolfe in Journ. Bot. 23 (1885) 212 (tri- 

 foliolatus) ; Vidal Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1880) 103; Ceron Cat. PI. Herb. (Manila) 



(1892) 59. 



Anisostemon trifoliatus Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mose. 20 1 (1847) 152. 



Connarus polyanthus Planch, in Linnaea 23 (1850) 428; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. V 

 (1859) 665; Walp. Ann. 2 (1851) 300. 



Connarus rolfei Vidal Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 106. 



Luzon, Province of Albay, Cuming 851, type collection of Anisostemon trifolia- 

 tus, Connarus polyanthus, and C. rolfei. Negros, Gimugaan River, For. Bur. 

 4299 Everett. Mindanao, Province of Surigao, Bolster 316; Lake Lanao, Camp 

 Keithley, Mrs. Clemens 332. 



This species has received three distinct specific names, all based on the same 

 number of Cuming's Philippine collection, the oldest being Anisostemon trifoliatus 

 Turcz., which is here retained. Vidal 5 erroneously refers to Connarus polyanthus 

 Planch. Cuming lJf65, and this species is so written up in the Kew Herbarium. 

 The specimen is however not at all like Planchon's species, nor is it cited by that 

 author. 



Endemic. 



2. Connarus stellatus sp. now 



Frutex scandens, ramulis, foliis junioribus, paniculisque densissime 

 pubescentia stellato-plumosa obtectis; foliis circiter 20 cm longis, impari- 

 pinnatis, foliolis 7, lanceolatis, subcoriaceis, nitidis, basi acutis, apice 

 acuminatis; paniculis terminalibus, folia aequantibus, pyramidatis ; sepalis 

 densissime stellato-tomentosis ; petalis obtusis, plus minus punctatis, extus 

 puberulis; staminibus 10, inaequalibus ; carpellis dense pubescentibus; 

 stylo 4 mm longo. 



A scandent shrub, the young branches, leaves, and the inflorescence 

 densely covered with brown-stellate-plumose indumentum, the leaflets ulti- 

 mately glabrous or nearly so. Branches light-yellowish-gray, lenticellate, 

 glabrous. Leaves about 20 cm long, the rachis and petiolules densely 

 brown-stellate-plumose; leaflets 7, the lower ones alternate, the upper 

 opposite, lanceolate, subcoriaceous, brown, shining, in age glabrous or 

 nearly so, 6 to 10 cm long, 2 to 3 cm wide, base acute, apex slightly 

 acuminate, acumen blunt; nerves 6 or 7 on each side of the midrib, not 

 prominent, ascending, the reticulations rather close ; petiolules 2 to 3 mm 

 long. Panicle terminal, pyramidal, about as long as the leaves, very 

 densely covered with brown stellate-tomentose indumentum. Sepals lan- 

 ceolate, acuminate, about 3 mm long, densely stellate-pubescent. Petals 



■ Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 106, Rev. PI. Vase. (1886) 103. 



