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axils of fallen leaves, but one or two in each axil, the pedicels 
ferruginous-pubescent, up to 8 cm long. Young sepals broadly 
ovate, obtuse, ferruginous-pubescent, coriaceous, about 4 mm 
long. Very young corolla-lobes elliptic-ovate, rounded or slightly 
retuse, 3 mm long. Stamens 18, the young anthers 2 mm long. 
Ovary very slightly pubescent, 6-celled. Fruit oblong, inequi- 
lateral, up to at least 3 cm in length (immature) tipped by the 
style which is up to 14 mm in length, glabrous. 
NeEGROS, Cadiz, For. Bur. 15029 Danao, March, 1908; Paniquon River, 
For. Bur. 7325 Everett, March, 1907; near San Carlos, For. Bur. 20696 
Tamesis (type), September, 1918, locally known as nato and bayog. 
This is the species that Dubard has referred, with doubt, to Palaquium 
obovatum King & Gamble,” from fruiting specimens; a more recent collec- 
tion, however, presents young flowers, and an examination of these shows 
18, not 12 stamens, so that the specimens must be referred to the section 
Palaquoides, not to Eupalaquium, to which P. obovatum belongs. It is 
closely allied to Palaquiwm lanceolatum Blanco, differing in its larger 
leaves which are broadly rounded at the apex, not at all acuminate, its 
somewhat shorter pedicels, its much fewer flowers, but one or two in each 
axil, and its slightly pubescent ovary. 
APOCYNACEAE 
ALYXIA R. Brown 
ALYXIA CONFERTIFLORA sp. nov. 
Species ut videtur A. lucidae Wall. affinis, differt inflorescentiis 
valde congestis, haud pedunculatis, quam petiolo multo brevio- 
ribus, floribus longioribus, circiter 1 cm longis. 
A scandent shurb, quite glabrous except the inflorescence. 
Branches smooth, reddish-brown, distinctly 4-angled. Leaves 
fragrant in drying, whorled, 4 in each whorl, oblong, chartaceous 
to subcoriaceous, 6 to 10 cm long, 2 to 3.5 cm wide, about equally 
narrowed at both ends, the apex blunt-acuminate, the base de- 
current-acuminate, both surfaces slightly shining when dry, the 
lower a little paler than the upper, the margins recurved; lateral 
nerves very slender, indistinct, about 50 on each side of the 
midrib, anastomosing with the faint submarginal nerve; petioles 
1 to 1.5 cm long. Cymes axillary, sessile or very shortly pe- 
duncled, congested, about 0.8 mm long (excluding the corollas), 
pubescent, the flowers sessile, 5-merous, each subtended by an 
ovate, pubescent, acute or acuminate bract about 3 mm long and 
several similar but much smaller bracteoles. Calyx 3 mm long, 
the lobes ovate, acute, about 2 mm long, ciliate-pubescent or 
puberulent. Corolla-tube cylindric, externally glabrous, 10 mm 
long, swollen above opposite the anthers, contracted at the 
” Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. 15 (1909) 280. 
