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Type specimen. 6643, A. D. E. Elmer, Mount Mariveles, 
Provinee of Bataan, Luzon, November, 1904. Common in 
the woods at 600 meters. 
* * Fruit not strictly globose, with thinner pericarp; apex usually 
with an evident portion of the calyx. 
-— Leaves pinnately nerved with 12 to 18 pair. 
++ Corolla tube 5 to 7 cm. long; its segments membranous, 
about 5 em. long. 
2. G. barnesii Merr. 
++ ++ Corolla tube shorter; segments subcoriaceous and smaller. 
3. G. pseudopsidium (Blco.) F. Vil. 
-— -— Leaves with fewer nerves. 
++ Flowers terminating the branches, solitary or in short 3 to 5 
pedunculate cymes. 
4. 'G. merrillii n. sp. Shrub 4 m. high or sometimes tree 
like; branchlets smooth, slender. Leaves opposite, usually 2 
pairs in a subwhorl or often ternate, quite variable in size, the 
medium ones 6 em. wide, 18 em. long including the thick 5 mm. 
long petiole, elliptie to oblong or lanceolate to oblanceolate, 
shining green on the upper surface, paler beneath, acute or 
obtuse at apex, base acute or obtuse, half coriaceous, 7 
to 9-nerved; stipule glabrous, leathery, acute, broad and 
subpersistent, enclosing a fringe of ferruginous hairs. In- 
florescence of a very short 1 to 3-flowered cyme, upon a 
1 em. long peduncle, axillary or terminal, subtended by 
ciliate bracts; pedicels subsessile, bibracteate; calyx 8 mm. 
long, leathery, tubular or slightly turbinate, subglabrous 
without, densely pubescent within, minutely toothed; corolla . 
tube subglabrous on the exterior, glabrous on the interior, 
pubescent on the throat, 5 cm. long, gradually expanding 
toward the apex; segments 5, the larger ones 4 cm. long, 
1 em. wide, oblong, obtuse or truncate at apex, thin, 
strongly nerved, rotate or reflexed, white, quite fragrant; 
stamens 5, included, sessily attached to the middle of the 
dorsal side; anthers 1 em. long, linear; style also includ- 
ed, divided into 2 flattened arms; stigma 1 cm. long, 1.5 
mm. wide; fruit subglobose or ovoid, 4 cm. in diameter, 
apex tapering to the short persistent calyx tube, 1-celled; 
pericarp thin; seeds embedded in 2 pulpy masses, about 20 
in each, black, smooth, irregular, its sides roughly indented. 
