NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VII. 291 



description in Latin, taken entirely from Blanco's original description, and states 

 that he had seen no specimens. An examination of Blanco's description shows 

 that it applies unmistakably to Kosteletzkya, and F.-Villar was quite correct in 



making the transfer to the latter genus. On studying the above specimens, I 

 found that they agreed with none of the descriptions of the various species of 

 Kofteletzkya, other than Blanco's but thinking that the species might be an 

 introduced one here, I sent specimens to Kew for comparison, and received the 

 following communication: "The specimen of Kosteletzkya batacenait docs not 

 match any of the species in the Kew Herbarium, from America or elsewhere, 

 and in view of the wide distribution of the genus, America, Mediterranean region, 

 Tropical Africa and Madagascar, the existence of an endemic Philippine species 

 is not theoretically improbable." Blanco's type was from the town of Batac, Prov- 

 ince of Ilocos Norte, Luzon, and the species is probably endemic in the Philip- 

 pines. 



STERCULIACE^E. 



LEPTONYCHIA Turcz. 



Leptonychia banahaensis (Elmer) comb. nov. 



Grewia banuhnrnsis Elmer Lead. Philip. Bot. 1 (1908) 319. 



Arbuscula glabra vel subglabra, circiter 3 m alta; foliis alternis, 

 glabris vel subglabris, lanceolatis vel oblongo-lanceolatis, 7 ad 13 cm 

 longis, nitidis, membranaceis vel submembranaceis, apice caudato-acu- 

 minatis, • basi obtusis vel subrotundatis, minute glanduloso-punctatis, 

 subtus in axillis glandule-sis; nervis utrinque 5, ascendentibus, prominen- 

 tibus ; floribufl axillaribus, solitariis, pedicellatis; petalis orbicularibus 

 vel ovato-orbicularibus, pubescentibus, circiter 2 mm longis, liberis; 

 staminibua 10, 5-adelpliis, basi in annulo connatis; staminoideis ex- 

 terioribus nullis, interioribus 5, brevibus, phalangibus altermmtibus ; 

 ovario 3-loculare; fructibus ovoideis vel obovoideiSj glabris, rugosis, 3- vel 

 abortu 2- vel 1-locularibus, loculicide debiseentibus, loculis 1-spenuis; 

 seminibus ovoideis, glabris, leviter compressis, nitidis, circiter 1.3 cm 



longis, arillatis. 



Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Lucban, Elmer 7569, May, 1906, type number: 

 Province of Laguna, Santa Maria Mavitac, For. Bur. 10069 Outran, February, 

 1908; Mabalucbaluc Pass, Bur. Sci. 60-'//f Robinson, March, 190S. 



The first representative of the genus to be found in the Philippines, and 

 erroneously described by Mr. Elmer as a Grewia, of the Tilaceae. The species 

 strongly resembles the Malayan Leptonychia heteroclita (Roxb.) Kurz., but differs 

 in (he total absence of the external row of staminodes. 



GUTTIFEREL 



CALOPHYLLUM Linn. 



Calophyllum auriculatum sp. nov. § Apetalum. 



Arbor circiter 20 m alta, glabra, gemmis ferrugineo-puberulis exceptis, 

 ramis teretibus, griseis, ramulis crassiusculis, in sicco valde angulatis sul- 

 catisque; foliis subsessilibus vel breviter petiolatis, coriaceis, nitidis, 

 oblongo-ellipticis vel oblongo-obovatis, apice obtusis vel rotundatis, rariter 

 subacutis, basi distincte auriculatis. Inflorescentiis axillaribus. solitariis 



