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SPERMACOCE LINN, 
* Leaves hispidly pubescent. 
1. S. hispida Linn. 
* * Leaves subglabrous. 
2. S. ocymoides Burm. 
TRICALYSIA. RICH. 
1. T. tinagaoense n. sp. A small tree or shrub. Leaves 
submembranous, 14 to 20 cm. long including the 1 cm. 
long petiole, 7 to 10 cm. wide, glabrous on the upper sur- 
face, puberulous beneath on the midvein and on the 7 to 
10 pairs of lateral nerves; stipule subglabrous, 5 mm. long, 
acuminately pointed. Flowers in loose cymose clusters from 
the axils of the fallen leaves; berries upon 0.5 to 1 cm. 
long cinereous pedicels which are frequently short bracteate, 
usually 3 to 5 from short bracteate tubercles, subglobose, 
7 mm. in diameter, its base more or less short pointed, 
apex mamillate, 2-celled, with thin pericarp, glabrous; seeds 
6 in each cell, dark brown, angular, sides irregular in 
shape and size, usually compressed, about 4 mm. across, 
closely set together, without pulpy tissues between them. 
Type specimen 417, G. P. Ahern collected by J. F. 
Quadras, Tinaga, March to May, 1901. 
TIMONIUS RUMPH. 
* Leaves densely pubescent at least beneath. 
+ Base of leaf long attenuate. 
1. T. attenuatus n. sp. Shrub, 7 m. high, with young 
twigs pubescent. Leaves opposite, submembranous, adpressed 
pilose beneath, subglabrous above, obovate or oblanceolate, 
with 7 to 9 pairs of ascending nerves, apex acute or acum- 
inate, base long tapering into the 1.5 cm. long pubescent 
petiole, 7 to 10 em. long with the petiole, 2.5 to 4 em. 
wide; stipules 4 mm. long, rusty pubescent, slenderly acum- 
inate. Long pedunculate cymes axillary, densely brown pub- 
escent; flowers short pedicellate, subtended by a single linear 
inconspicuous bract; calyx densely covered with light. yel- 
