326 MKKIUI.L. 



LITOSANTHES Bhime. 



L. biflora Blume Cat. Gew Buitenzorg (1823) 21; Bijdr. (1826) 9fl4; Miq. 

 PI. [nd. Hat. 2 (1857) 314; DC. Prodr. 4 (1830) 465. 



Luzon, Province of Sorsogon, Adhunay Hills, For. Bur. J2U8.1 Outran, June, 

 L908. MlNDOBO, Mount lialcon, Merrill 6112, November, 1900; Mount Bablaaga, 

 For. Bur. tlOOi Merrill, March, 1908; Mount Teluti, For. Bur. 111,18 Merrill. 

 .May. 1908. NeQBOS, Elmer. 



The first representative of tliis small genus to be found in the Philippines; 

 Java and Celebes. 



Two species have been described from New Guinea. 



NAUCLEA Linn. 

 Nauclea jagori sp. nov. 



Arbor vel arbuscula glabra; i'oliis lanceolatis vol anguste lanceolatis. 

 [onge sensim acuminatis, 8 ad 20 cm longis, ad 18 mm latis, basi 

 angustatis, BubcoriaocU, nitidis, nervis utrinque circiter 15; capitulis 

 solitariis, circiter ;; cm diametro stylis exclusis; corolla glabra, 1 cm 

 longa. 



A shrub or tree, glabrous. Branches grayish-brown, terete, the branch- 

 lets somewhat compressed. Leaves lanceolate or narrowly lanceolate 

 8 to "in em long, !) to 18 mm wide, subcoriaceous, shining, brownish when 

 dry, the base narrowed, acute, the apex long and gradually acuminate; 

 m-vw> about 15 on each side of the midrib, not prominent, obscurely 

 anastomosing, the reticulations indistinct; petioles 3 to 7 mm long; 

 stipules nb!,»ng, obtuse. 12 to 15 mm long, 3 mm wide, slightly hirsute 

 below, caducous. Heads solitary, the peduncles about 3 cm long, the 

 bracts, if any, caducous, the heads, excluding the long exserted styles, 

 about 3 cm in diameter. Corolla 1 cm long, glabrous, widened upward, 

 the lobes oblong, obtuse, 2.5 mm long, 1 mm wide. Anthers 1.7 mm long. 

 Style about 1.5 cm long; stigma about 2.5 mm long, swollen in the 

 middle. Cocci S mm long: seeds, including the narrow, acuminate wings, 

 •I mm long, slightly pubescent. 



Samak. /•'. Jagor 987, in Herb. Bend. 



A very characteristic species, at once distinguished from ssosl hitherto described 



ones in the genus by its very narrow leaves. It is apparently allied to Nauoloa 



anguttifolia Elavil., of Borneo, and .v. chalmertU F. Ifuell., of New- Guinea, both 



of which have very narrow leaves, hut the present species differs from these in 

 it* more numerously nerved leaves and larger flowers. 



PLECTRONIA Linn. 

 Plectronia megacarpa sp. nov. 



Arbor glabra circiter 15 m alia: I'oliis coriaceif, elliptico-ovatis vel 

 obovato-elliptieis, circiter 20 cm longis, brunneis, nitidis, apice rotundatis 

 vel late obscure aciiminalis. basi cuneatis, nervis utrinque circiter 8, 

 prominentibus, nervulis obscuris; fractious axillaribus, pedicellatis, obo- 

 voideis, compresiis vel trigonis, 2- vel 3-locellatis, 1.5 cm longis, apice 

 trnncatis vel retusis, basi acutis. 



