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114 - The Philippine Journal of Science 1916 
A species allied to Tricalysia negrosensis Elm., which it greatly resem- 
bles, differing in its somewhat longer, more numerously nerved leaves 
which are not bearded in the axils on the lower surface. The species is 
anomalous in Tricalysia in its 1-ovuled cells of the ovary, but in spite of 
this character I have little hesitation in referring it to this genus. 
PLECTRONIA Linnaeus 
PLECTRONIA SARCOCARPA sp. nov. 
Frutex 4 ad 5 m altus, spinosus, ramis partibus junioribusque 
adpresse hirsutis; foliis ovatis, chartaceis, acuminatis, usque 
ad 5.5 cm longis, spinis axillaribus gracilis, rectis, usque ad 
1 cm longis; fructibus axillaribus, solitariis, breviter pedun- 
culatis, carnosis, obovoideis, 2 cm longis. 
A spiny shrub 4 to 5 m high, the branches and younger parts 
more or less appressed-hirsute. Branches slender, the solitary 
axillary spines straight, sharp, stiff, slender, up to 1 cm long. 
Leaves chartaceous, ovate, 2.5 to 5.5 cm long, 1.2 to 3 cm wide, 
sharply acuminate, the base acute to rounded, green when dry, 
slightly pubescent along the midrib and lateral nerves, becom- 
ing nearly glabrous; lateral nerves 4 to 6 on each side of the 
midrib, slender, arcuate, anastomosing; petioles somewhat ap- 
pressed-hirsute, 2 to 3 mm long; flowers not seen. Fruits axil- 
lary, solitary, obovoid, glabrous, the pericarp fleshy, dark-colored 
and shining when dry, 2 cm long, the pyrenes bony, the peduncles 
3 to 4 mm long. 
Luzon, Province of Laguna, San Antonio, Bur. Sci. 10968 Ramos, August, 
1910, in thickets. 
A species in most respects similar to Plectronia horrida Kurz and P. 
peduncularis Elm., differing from both in its much lager fruits and larger 
leaves. 
TIMONIUS DeCandolle 
TIMONIUS CONFERTIFLORUS sp. nov. 
Arbor parva, 6 ad 7 m alta, partibus junioribus inflorescenti- 
isque adpresse fulvo-pubescentibus, subtus foliis plus minusve 
pubescentibus; foliis oppositis, oblongis ad oblongo-ellipticis, 
coriaceis, in siccitate brunneis, nitidis, usque ad 9 cm longis, 
utrinque subaequaliter angustatis, apice breviter acute acumina- 
tis, basi acutis, nervis utrinque 6 vel 7; cymis axillaribus, cum 
floribus usque ad 2 cm longis, brevissime pedunculatis vel sub- 
sessilibus, circiter 7-floris, floribus confertis, circiter 12 mm 
longis, 5-meris. 
A small tree 6 to 7 m high. Branches terete, grayish or 
grayish-brown, somewhat wrinkled when dry, glabrous, the very 
young branchlets appressed fulvous-pubescent as are the in- 
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