104 The Philippine Journal of Science 1915 
MUSSAENDA SETOSA sp. nov. 
Frutex 3 ad 4 m altus, omnibus partibus plus minusve seto- 
sus vel ciliato-setosus; foliis chartaceis, oblongo-ellipticis, usque 
ad 25 cm longis, acuminatis, basi decurrento-acuminatis, nervis 
utrinque 15 ad 18, prominentibus; inflorescentiis terminalibus, 
cymosis, laxis, divaricato-ramosis, usque ad 20 cm longis, pauci- 
floris, calycis lobis 5, lineari-lanceolatis, hirsutis, 5 ad 7 mm 
longis, subpersistentibus, corolla cylindracea, circiter 3 cm longa. 
A shrub or small tree 3 to 4 m high. Branches terete, pale 
grayish-brown, the younger ones hirsute. Leaves in equal pairs, 
chartaceous, oblong-elliptic or elliptic, 15 to 25 cm long, 9 to 13 
cm wide, subequally narrowed to the somewhat acuminate apex 
and to the prominently decurrent-acuminate base, equilateral, oli- 
vaceous and somewhat shining when dry, somewhat rough, both 
surfaces with stiff, scattered, brown or pale, setose-ciliate hairs; 
lateral nerves 15 to 18 on each side of the midrib, prominent, 
anastomosing, the reticulations lax, prominent; petioles 2 to 3 
cm long; stipules ovate, acuminate, hirsute, 6 mm long. Cymes 
terminal, divaricate, rather few flowered, up to 20 cm long, hir- 
sute-ciliate with brownish spreading hairs. Flowers 5-merous, 
few crowded at the ends of the branches, subsessile or shortly 
pedicelled. Calyx hirsute, the tube at anthesis about 6 mm long, 
the lobes linear-lanceolate, hirsute, 5 to 7 mm long, subpersistent. 
Corolla slender, the tube cylindric, white, hirsute, about 3 cm 
long, the lobes spreading, yellow, broadly ovate, acute’ or ob- 
scurely acuminate. Calyx-lobes persisting until the fruit is 
nearly or quite ripe. Enlarged calyx-lobe white, broadly ovate, 
slightly acuminate, membranaceous, somewhat pubescent, the 
blade up to 7 cm long, the petiolar part less than 1 cm long. 
Fruit ellipsoid, sparingly hirsute, 1.5 cm long, black when dry. 
PALAWAN, Mount Capoas, Malampaya Bay, Merrill 9496, April 21, 1913, 
on forested ridges, altitude about 700 meters. 
A species well characterized by its long slender corolla, its rather large, 
prominently veined leaves, its divaricately branched, rather large cymes, 
and its setose-ciliate or hirsute indumentum of scattered, more or less 
spreading, pale or brownish hairs. 
MYCETIA Reinwardt 
Reinwardt’s generic name is the earliest valid one for those species that 
are by most botanists referred to Adenosacme Wall. Blume, in 1826, placed 
several species under the genus Bertiera Aubl., but Aublet’s genus is quite 
different from Mycetia; Blume cites Mycetia Reinw. as a synonym of Ber- 
tiera. Mycetia was published by Reinwardt in 1828, while Adenosacme 
of Wallich was proposed in 1832. The case is not covered by the generic 
