264 MERBILL, 



each side of the midrib, prominent beneath, anastomosing, the retic- 

 ulations lax; petioles 5 to 10 mm long. Stipules deciduous, mem- 

 branaceous, usually lanceolate, acuminate, 5 mm long or less, somewhat 



appreased-pubescent on the back, the margins below pr inently pectinate, 



the tips of the teeth glandular. Spikes as long as the leaves or some- 

 times shorter, about 2J) cm in diameter, densely many-flowered, the 

 rachis somewhat pubescent, the bracteoles linear, pubescent, 1..") mm long. 

 Flowers white, sessile. Calyx-tube short, adnate to the ovary, pale- 

 stellate-pubescent outside, the limb splitting irregularly into two or 

 three ovate, acute or acuminate lobes, 4 to 5 mm long, membranaceous, 

 somewhat reticulate-veined, stellate-pubescent outside, finally circumscis- 

 sile and deciduous. Petals 5, about 2 cm long. l.S |«, 2 mm wide, the basal 

 :i mm strongly auricled, including the auricles ;5 mm wide, narrowed 

 above the auricles to 1 mm. incurved, and then linear-elongate, mem- 

 branous, nerved, about 2 mm wide, acuminate. Staminodcs none, unless 

 represented by the auricles to the petals. Stamens 5, alternate with the 

 petals, and inserted with them; filaments adnate to the corolla and falling 

 with it, stout, about 1 mm long; anthers ovoid, about 1 mm long, the 

 cells opening laterally each by two valves, the connective produced as a 

 straight, 2 mm long. awn. Ovary inferior, ^-celled, each cell with a 

 single pendulous ovule, the top of the ovary pubescent; styles 2, less 

 than 1 mm long, slender ; stigmas minute. Fruit unknown. 



Palawan, Victoria Peak, Bur. Sci. 739 1 fa worthy, March 24, 1900. A spread 

 tag tree about 10 m high, with a trunk 15 to 20 cm in diameter growing on the 

 river hank at an attitude of about 250 m above the sea. 



The genus above proposed is allied to Maingaya Oliver, of Penang and l'erak, 

 ami to LoropetaUm R. Br., of India and China, differing from both in its spicate 

 inlloresence, and in the strongly aurieulate bases of the petals, from the former 

 also in its different calyx and absence of staminodcs, and from the latter also 

 in its 4-inerous flowers. It is apparently more closely allied to Maingaya than 

 to Loropetalum, nut seems to be distinct from both, anil from all other hitherto 

 described genera. Hut one »-cnus of the family. SyoopSM, was previously known 

 from the Philippines. 



ROSACEA. 



PARINARIUM Aubl, 



Parinarium curranii nom. nov. 



Parinarium raeemomm Merr. in Govt. Lab. I'ubl. (Philip.) 17 (1004) 19; 

 mm Vidal Cat. PI. I'rov. Manila f 1880) 2!). 



Mashatk, Merrill 2614, May, 1 00:i (type). Lrzox, Province of Albay, For. 

 Bur. 1051,'> Outran, dune, 1908. 



The original name of this species is invalidated by Parinarium raoemoautK 

 Vidal, ami accordingly the above new name is proposed for it. Vidal'a species 



is not enumerated in Index Kewensis. 



