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the rachis, brandies and pedicels pubenilent and with intermixed longer 

 hairs. Flowers small. Calyx-lobes narrowly ovate, less than 0.5 mm 

 long, pubescent. Corolla rotate, 1.8 mm long, the tube short, the lobes 

 elliptic, rounded. Ovary depressed -globose, glabrous. Fruit ovate, com- 

 pressed, 5 mm long, 4 mm wide, not ribbed, or with an obscure rib on 

 one side. 



Luzon, Province of Abra, Mount Paraga, Bur. Sci. 7074 Ramos, February, 

 1909, the altitude given as about 600 m. 



A species manifestly allied to Viburnum luzonicum Rolfe, but distinguished 

 from that species by its nearly glabrous leaves which are less acuminate, more 

 strongly toothed, rounded and inequilateral at tlie base, as well as by its dense 

 inflorescence. 



Viburnum glaberrimum sp. nov. § Euviburnum, Lantana ? 



Arbor parva, glabra, ramis ramulisque crassis, valde lenticellatis ; foliis 

 coriaceis, glabris, nitidis, obovatis, intcgris, apice rotundatis, obtusis, vel 

 late obtuse acuminatis, basi obtusis vel leviter decunvnti-acuminatis, 

 nervis utrinque 6 ad 8, prominentibus; inflorescentiis terminalibus, umbe- 

 llato-corymbosis; corollae tubo cylindraceo, lobis erectis. 



A small tree, glabrous throughout. Branches and branchlets stout, 

 terete, dark-reddish-brown, strongly lenticellate. Leaves coriaceous, shin- 

 ing, obovate, entire, the apex broad, rounded, obtuse, or sometimes broadly 

 and obtusely acuminate, the base obtuse or slightly decurrent-acuminate, 

 8 to 14 cm long, 6 to 8 cm wide ; nerves 6 to 8 on each side of the midrib, 

 very prominent beneath, the reticulations not distinct; petioles stout, 3 

 to 4 cm long. Inflorescence terminal, about 5 peduncles at the tip of 

 each branch, forming an umbellate corymb, the peduncles 4 to 5 cm long. 

 Calyx- tube short, the teeth very small, rounded, about 0.4 mm long. 

 Corolla cyclindric, 5 mm long, thick, the tube 3 mm long, the erect, 

 elliptic, obtuse lobes 2 mm long. Filaments about 5 mm long ; anthers 

 exserted, 2 mm in length. Ovary 1-celled. Fruit (immature) elliptic, 

 compressed. 



Luzon, Province of Pangasinan, near Imogen, For. Bur. 158 ! i8 Merritt, Decem- 

 ber, 1908, in forests 300 to 450 m altitude. 



A species manifestly allied to Viburnum coriaceum Blume of the Indo-Malayan 

 region, but at the same time very distinct, especially in its vegetative characters. 



CUCURBITACE^E. 



GYNOSTEMMA Blume. 



Gynostemma simpl icifolia Blume Bijdr. (1825) 23; Cogn. in DC. Monog. 

 Phan. 3 (1881) 915. 



Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Sax River, Williams 2119, February, 1905. 



New to the Philippines and the fourth species of the genus for the Archipelago; 

 previously known only from Java. 

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