72 
thick, valvate, at most 2 mm. long, triangularly acute, slightly 
united at the base, pubescent on both sides with an ad- 
ditional fringe of longer hairs around the basal interior 
portion; stamens alternating with the corolla segments and 
inserted upon them near the base; filaments glabrous, 1 
mm. long or less, extended beyond the anthers as acute 
flattened triangular appendages; anthers 1 mm. long, oblong, 
attached to the filaments along its egdes and on the ventral 
side; style tumid, 1 mm. long, glabrous; stigmas short, 
clavately 5-lobed; berries globose, 7 mm. in diameter, pulve- 
rulent and with a crisp pubescence, 5-celled, numerously ovuled 
upon central placentae. 
Type specimen 7945, A. D. E. Elmer, Mount Banahao, 
Province of Tayabas, Luzon, April, 1906. This undersbrub 
is chiefly confined along water courses of the woods at 800 
meters. Quite rare. 
Timonius arborea n. sp. Tree, 8 to 12 m. high. Leaves 
opposite, easily separating, leaving broad oval sears, the 
larger ones 15 cm. long, 6 em. wide, oblanceolate, apex 
acute and frequently tipped, base narrowed down to the very 
short petiole, with 5 to 7 pairs of nerves which are prominent 
beneath, glabrous on both sides, paler green beneath; stip- 
ules 4 mm. long, acuminate, yellowish pubescent. Flowers 
axillary, solitary upon 1.5 em. long yellowish pubescent 
pedicels, subtended by 2 acute bracts; calyx 6 mm. long, 
the ovary portion cinereous, the short tubular limb with 
yellow hairs, faintly 5 or 6-apiculate; corolla  cinereously 
pubescent on the exterior, 13 mm. long, divided into 6 
leathery ultimately reflexed segments; stamens 6, sessile, in- 
serted upon the corolla tube at about the middle; anthers 
3 mm. long, base truncate, apex apiculate, dorsally attached; 
filaments flattened, adnate to the corolla tube; style equal- 
ling the throat, subglabrous, fluted, the upper half twisted 
and becoming separated into 5 or 6 linear stigmas; ovules 
imbedded in a pulpy mass, clustered in 6 groups of 8 
or 10 in each; fruit globose, numerously costate on the 
exterior, glabrous, 1 cm. in diameter; seeds stony, light 
yellow, subterete, curved, 7 mm. long, the central ones nearly 
straight and gradually thickened toward the base. 
