NEW Oil NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VII. 323 



Luzon, Province of Benguet, Mount Tonglon, Mearns s. n.. December, 1900; 

 Mount Ugo, For. Bur. 15920 Bacani, Bur. Sci. 5727 Ramos, December, 1908. 



A species allied to Strobilanthes pluriformis Clarke, but distinguished from 

 thai and all other known Philippine forms in being strongly hirsute in all 

 parts. 



RUBIACB^. 



COPTOSAPELTA Kortb. 



C. flavescens Kortli. Ned. Kruid. Arch. 2 (1851) 113; Miq. PI. hid. Bat. 2 

 (18671 15o; Hook. f. PI. Brit. Ind. 3 (1880) 35; King & Gamble in Journ. As. 

 Soc. Beng. 72- (1903) 138. 



Randia olnciformis Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 3 (1908) Bot. 163. 



Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens 1220. 



Randia olaciformis Merr. must be reduced to Coptosapclta flarescciis Kortli.. 

 a species extending from Burma to the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, and 

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

 Hooker f. gives Webcra macrophylla lloxb. as a synonym of the above, which, if 

 correctly reduced, would be the earliest specific name for the species. Roxburgh's 

 description, however, does not seem to me to apply to Ooptosapelta flavescens 

 Kortb., 



DAMNACANTHUS Caertn. 



Damnacanthus indicus Gaertn. f. Fruct. 3 (1805) 18, t. 182; DC. Prodr. 4 

 (1830) 473; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 3 (1880) 158; Forbes & Hemsl. in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. Bot. 23 (1888) 386. 



Luzon, Province of Laguna, Mount Banajao, For. Bur. 7856 Outran d Merritt, 

 November, 1907, Bur. Sci. 21,32 Foxworthy, March, 1907, altitude 1,400-2,000 m. 



The first representative of the genus for the Philippines, an interesting 

 addition to the continental element in the Philippine flora; eastern Himalayan 

 region to southern China and Japan. 



GREENEA Wight & Amott. 



Greenea longiflora sp. now 



Arbor parva, circiter 8 m alta, ramulis petiolis foliis cymisque hirsutis; 

 foliis oblongo-ellipticis, papyraceis, 20 ad 30 cm longis, apice acutis vel 

 obscure acuminatis, nervis utrinque circiter 15; cymis axillaribus, subscor- 

 poideis, pauciramosis, usque ad 9 em longis; floribus sessilibus, circiter 

 15 cm longis, 4-meris. 



A small tree about 8 m high. Branches densely hirsute with long 

 brownish hairs. Leaves papyraceous, oblong-elliptic, 20 to 30 cm long, 

 10 to 12 cm wide, very sligtbly shining, the lower surface somewhat paler 

 than the upper, both surfaces with numerous spreading or appresscd 

 scattered hairs, those on the lower surface softer and paler than those 

 on the upper; nerves about 15 on each side of the midrib, distinct, the 

 reticulations rather lax; petioles densely hirsute, 2 to I cm long; stipules 

 membranaceous, caducous, oblong, about 4 cm long and 1.5 cm wide, 

 rounded or obtuse at the apex, hirsute. Cymes axillary, pcduncled, 9 

 cm long or less, hirsute, the branches few. Flowers sessile, arranged 



