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upon the throat and alternating with the segments; filaments 
1.5 mm. long, glabrous; anthers 0.5 mm. in length; style 
not exceeding the throat, subclavate, glabrous, the apex 
bifid, persistent; drupe 2-celled, obovoid, 6 mm, long, 4 mm. 
in diameter at the top, glabrous, upon 1 em. long pedicels; 
pericarp thin, purple when mature; pyrenes solitary in each 
cell, acute at base, rounded at apex, ventral side flat or only 
a trifle convex in the center toward the base, dorsal surface 
obseurely 3 to 5-ridged, attached to the central plancenta 
near the base. 
Type of fruiting specimen 907, H. N. Whitford, Laguma- 
noc, Province of Tayabas Luzon, September, 1904; flowering 
specimen 1727, Forestry Bureau, collected by W. W. Clark, 
Burias, June, 1904. 
+ ~+ Drupe sessile, capitate, upon three 1 to 2 em. 
long peduncles. 
3. P. bataanensis n. sp. A lax 2 m. high shrub, its 
young twigs short brown pubescent. Leaves obovate or oblong, 
opposite, apex obtuse or rounded, base truncately rounded 
or frequently subauriculate, the larger ones 5 cm. wide, 14 
em. long including the 1.5 cm. long dark brown pubescent 
_ petiole, reddish brown when dry, glabrous above, short dark 
brown pubescent on the very prominent midvein and nerves; 
lateral nerves pinnate, 17 to 20 on each side, anastomosing 
at their ends; stipule subglabrous, rigid, acute, 8 mm. long, 
deciduous. Flowers terminal, sessily clustered upon 3 short 
densely ferruginous pubescent peduncles, nearly white; calyx 
similarly pubescent, turbinate, 3 mm. long, its rim finely 
fringed; corolla glabrous except the pilose throat, subcam- 
panulate, divided into 4 rather thick obtuse segments; sta- 
mens 4, inserted upon the throat, alternating with the stra- 
ight and adnate segments; filament 1. mm. long, glabrous; 
anthers introrse, 1 mm. long, comparatively broad; style 
short, glabrous, subpersistent, its stigma mitre shaped; drupe 
2-celled, cardinal red when fully mature, in 3 M pitate 
clusters, each of these upon 1 to 2 em. long peduncle, obovoid, 
sessile, 6 mm. long, 4 mm. in diameter near the top, with 
