290 MERBILL. 



the other, apiculate, not ciliate. Ovary pubescent, ovoid, 2-celled; style 

 glabrous, about 5 mm long. Disk pubescent. 



Luzon, Province of Camarines, Mount Isarog, For. Bur, 10^88 Curran, May, 

 1908, in forests at about 1,000 m altitude. A specimen collected by Rosenbluth, 

 For. Bur, I '2220, from either Mindoro or Lubang is possibly referable here, but it 

 has more strongly acuminate leaves, and no axillary glands. 



Probably most closely allied to Elaeocarpus multi/lorus (Tores.) F.-Vill., but 

 quite distinct from that species. 



Elaeocarpus subglobosus sp. nov. § Ganitrus. 



Arbor 10 ad 20 m alta glabra, partibus junioribus intiorescentiisque 

 eucptis; foliis oblongis, finniter chartaceis, usque ad. 12 cm longis, apice 

 breviter obtuseque acuminatis, basi acutis, margine leviter crenatis, nervis 

 utrinque 10 ad 12; racemis axillaribus, pubescentibus, foliis multo 

 brevioribus; tloribus 5-meris, petalis laciniatis; staminibus circiter 25; 

 ovario 5-loculare; fructibus subglobosis 5- vel 4-locellatis, circiter 12 nun 

 diametro. 



A tree 10 to 20 m high. Branches terete, dark-grayish-brown, gla- 

 brous, the younger branchlets, petioles and young leaves rather densely 

 pubescent with appressed, pale, often shining hairs. Leaves oblong, 

 firmly chartaceous, 7 to 12 cm long, 3 to 4.5 cm wide, not or but 

 slightly shining, glabrous except the very youngest ones, apex shortly 

 and obtusely acuminate, base acute, margins slightly crenate; nerves, 10 

 to 12 on each side of t lie midrib, distinct, forked, obscurely anastomosing, 

 the axils of the primary nerves and of the larger reticulations glandular; 

 petioles 1 to 2 cm long, at first appressed-pubescent, ultimately glabrous. 

 Racemes axillary, solitary, 2 to 4 cm long, appressed-pubescent, the 

 pedicels about 5 mm. long. Sepals 5, lanceolate, acuminate, G nun. long, 

 1.5 nun wide, pubescent outside, keeled within. Petals as long as the 

 sepals, lacinate to the middle, slightly hairy on the margins below. 

 Stamens about 25: anthers linear, scabrid, one cell slightly longer than 

 the other and ciliate at its apex. Ovary ovoid, pubescent, 5-celled; style 

 5 mm long, glabrous. Fruits purple, globose to ohscurely globose-ell i p- 

 soid, about 12 mm in diameter, 5-rarely 4-celled, the endocarp bony. 



Luzon, Province of Benguet, Bagnio, For. Bur. 18311 Alvarez, December, 1908; 

 Williams 1086, October, 1904. 



Allied tn Elaeocarpus sphaericus (Gaertn.) K. Sch., but quite distinct. 



malvacej:. 



KOSTELETZKYA Presl. 



Kosteletzkya batacensis (Blanco) F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 24. 



Hibiscus batacensis Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 544, ed. 2 (1845) 380, ed. 3, 

 2:334. 



Luzon, Province of Ilocos Norte, Bur. Sci. 3315 Meanis. January, 1907: Prov- 

 ince of Rizal, Pasay, F. de la Liana, February, 1908, Normal Scbool distribu- 

 tion 827, 



Tbe rediscovery of Hibiscus baiacensis is considered worthy of record, as the 

 species has not otherwise been collected since Blanco's time. F.-Villar gives a 



