NEW OB NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VII. 3'21 



A glabrous tree about 15 m high. Branches brownish, terete or 

 slightly compressed. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-ovate or obovate-elliptic, 

 about 80 cm long, 9 to 11 cm wide, the upper surface brown, shining, 

 the lower paler, dull, margins somewhat recurved, apex broad, rounded, 

 or broadly and obscurely blunt-acuminate, base cuneate, sometimes slightly 

 acuminate; nerves about 8 on each side of the midrib, prominent, the 

 nervules and reticulations obscure; petioles stout, 2 to 2.5 cm long; 

 stipules deciduous, ovate, acuminate, less than 5 mm long. Flowers 

 unknown. Infrutescenee axillary, umbellate, the peduncle stout, about 5 

 mm long, the pedicels 1.5 to 3 cm long. Fruit yellow when fresh, 1.5 

 cm long, obovoid, trigonous and th ice-celled, or somewhat compressed and 

 two-celled, nearly 1.5 cm thick above the middle, the apex truncate or 

 refuse, the base acute. 



Luzon, Province of Zainbales, near Santa Cruz, altitude 100 m, For. Bur. 82,i2 

 Curran d- Mcrritt, December, 1907. 



A species apparently allied to Plectronia glabra (Blume) Kurz, but with 

 different fruits and leaves. 



TIMONIUSBumpb. 



Timonius appendiculatus sp. nov. 



Arbor parva, cireiter 8 m alta, glabra; foliis coriaceis oblongis vel 

 anguste elliptico-oblongis, usque ad 10 cm longis, basi plus minus decur- 

 rento-acuminatis, apice acutis vel obtusis, nervis lateralibus obscuris; 

 cymis axillaribus, pauciramosis, foliis multo brevioribus; floribus 4-meris, 

 onilateraliter spicatis, lobis corollae recurvatis, 3-appendiculatis; drupis 

 globosis, obscure 12-sulcatis, polypyrenis. 



A small tree glabrous throughout. Branches reddish-brown or grayish, 

 terete, wrinkled when dry. Leaves coriaceous, oblong to narrowly ellip- 

 tic-oblong, rather pale when dry, slightly shining, the apex acute or 

 blunt, the base somewhat decurrent-acuminate, (i to 10 cm long, 2 to 3 

 cm wide: lateral nerves few, obscure, and, with the reticulations, nearly 

 obsolete; petioles less than 1 cm long; stipules annular, truncate, very 

 short. Cymes in the upper axils, about 3 cm long, peduncled, with 

 usually but two brandies, the flowers spicately arranged on one side of 

 the branches only, sessile, articulated with the rachis. Calyx cupular, 

 about 3 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, truncate. Corolla about 9 mm long. 

 tubular, the lobes 4, reflexed, narrowly ovate, acute, about 2 mm long, 

 and with three retrorse appendages near the apex, the two lateral ones 

 about 1 mm long, the terminal one shorter. Filaments short, inserted 

 at the throjit or just below it; anthers linear, nearly 5 mm long, their 

 tips slightly exserted ; style about 3 mm long. Fruit globose, shining, 

 obscurely about 12-sulcate, crowned by the truncate calyx, about 5 mm in 

 diameter, about 12-celled, and containing about 25 pyrenes. 



Luzon*. Province of Rical, Bosoboso, Bur. Sci. 2 It)), -till Kamos, January, Hay, 

 1907, tbe former with staminate flowers, the latter with fruit. MlITOOBO, Mount 

 AgOllSt, For. Bur. 9861 Mcrritt. 



