293 LEAFLETS OE PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. I. Arr. 16 
smooth brown or mottled bark. Leaves submembranous, 
lighter green beneath, maroon when dry, glabrous or sprin- 
kled with a short stellate pubescence, oblong to obovate, 
the smaller subelliptic, apex abruptly acute, base rounded, 
alternatingly scattered along the twigs, the medium sized 
blades 12 cm. long, 5 cm. wide, margins entire; petiole 
5 mm. long, much thickened, stellately pubescent as are 
also the young apical portions of the twigs; nerves 9 to 12 
pairs, oblique, submarginally united, very prominent beneath, 
retieulations faint. Inflorescence terminal, the individual 
flowers subpendulous, 2 to 5 cm. long, from 1 to 3-flow- 
ered, densely pubescent with rusty brown stellate hairs; 
peduncles and pedicels provided with short bracts; calyx 
rigid, 10 mm. wide, united, subtruncate or obscurely 3-lobed 
corolla in the bud imbricate, 6-segmented, very deep dull red, 
spreading, with rigid tips incurved, very short pubescent, 
obovate, the constricted bases of the segments united, 15 
mm. long, about 1 em. wide above the middle, broadly rounded 
at the apex; stamens glabrous, indefinite, rigid, curved, grad- 
ually tapering from the base, about 5 mm. in length, the 
connective nearly 2 mm. long, tapering from the apex of 
the lateral anthers and with an oblique point; ovaries also 
indefinite, about 5 mm. long, gradually tapering from the 
base, reddish brown tomentose, apical portion 1 mm. long, 
very thick, its apex sulcately truncate; fruits not seen. 
Type specimen 7647, A4. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province 
of Tayabas, Luzon, May,1907. Approximate altitude 750 
meters near Mount Banahao. U. larep Miq., but with pedun- 
cle terminal or leaf opposed and with much smaller flowers. 
The author also collected it at Sorsogon, Province of Sor- 
sogon, Luzon. Named after Mr Theo. C. Zschokke. 
Oxymitra inpune n. sp.—Apparently a subscandent 
herb; branchlets tough, terete, brown, the young twigs fer- 
. ruginously pubescent. ` Leaves altarkate; variable, green and 
glabrous above except the midvein, beneath glaucous and 
with a very short brown pubescence, oblong, 15 cm. long, 
6 cm. wide across the middle, apex obtuse or rounded, sub- 
cordate at base or frequently only emarginate; pinnate 
nerves 11 to 13 pairs, more or less crowded from the base, 
