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long, each bearing usually two spreading branches 2 to 4 cm 
in length. Flowers white, 5-merous, all sessile, borne serially 
on the upper side of the branches. Calyx about 6 mm long, 
5 mm in diameter, irregularly and prominently toothed, the teeth 
usually 5, acute, externally densely ferruginous-pubescent, the 
subtending bracteoles oblong, 5 mm long. Corolla externally 
pale-pubescent, 13 to 18 mm long, the lobes oblong, about 6 
mm long. 
PALAWAN, Taytay, in forests immediately back of the mangrove, Merrill 
9210, April 30, 1918. 
A species well characterized by its ferruginous indumentum, its large, 
oblong-obovate to obovate, obtuse or rounded, prominently nerved, sessile 
leaves. It is most closely allied to Timonius macrophyllus Merr., but is 
very different from that species. 
TIMONIUS QUINQUEFLORUS sp. nov. 
Frutex vel arbor parva, subglabra, partibus junioribus in- 
florescentiis parce pubescentibus; foliis oppositis oblongis, co- 
riaceis, petiolatis, usque ad 12 cm longis, acuminatis, basi acutis, 
nervis utrinque 5 vel 6, subtus prominentibus, in siccitate 
brunneis vel flavido-brunneis; cymis axillaribus, pedunculatis, 
5-floris, floribus sessilibus, parvis, calycis truncatis. 
A shrub or small tree, the older parts quite glabrous, the 
very young branchlets, stipules, and inflorescence somewhat 
appressed ferruginous-pubescent. Leaves opposite, oblong, cori- 
aceous, when dry brown or yellowish-brown, somewhat shining 
on the upper surface, paler beneath, 7 to 12 cm long, 2 to 4 
cm wide, subequally narrowed to the acute base and to the 
somewhat acuminate apex, the lower surface bearded in the 
axils and, when young, with scattered hairs; lateral nerves 5 
or 6 on each side of the midrib, rather prominent, ascending, 
anastomosing, the reticulations rather fine, distinct; petioles 
stout, about 3 mm long; stipules ovate, acuminate, pubescent, 
3 mm long, deciduous. Inflorescence axillary, solitary, some- 
what pubescent, 3 to 5 cm long, the peduncles 2 to 3.5 cm long, 
bearing at their apices a solitary, central flower and two 
branches, each branch with two flowers. Flowers white. Calyx 
cup-shaped, truncate or very minutely 4-toothed, narrowed be- 
low, about 4 mm long, 3 mm in diameter, somewhat pubescent. 
Corolla-tube pubescent, 7 to 8 mm long, the lobes 4, very thick, 
oblong, obtuse, 5 mm long. 
Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Guinayangan, Bur. Sci. 20885 Escritor, 
March 8, 1913. : 
A species well characterized by its uniformly 5-flowered inflorescences. 
