JANUARY 25, 1908] A CENTURY OF New PLANTS 326 
top, pubescent on the interior; ovules several or more, at- 
tached to the central placentae from the top. 
Type specimen 7310, A. D. E. Elmer, Sorsogon, Province 
of Sorsogon, Luzon, November, 1905. On steep open moun- 
tain slopes at 400 meters. 
PASSIFLORACEAE, 
Passiflora philippinensis n. sp.—Scandent shrub, at the 
top of its support numerously branched and spreading; branches 
smooth, green. Leaves subpendulous, shining green above, 
glaucescent beneath, arranged in distichous rows along the 
branchlets, half leathery, oblong to narrowly ovate, obtusely 
rounded at the apex, base broadly rounded or subcordate, 
margins entire and slightly involute, glabrous above, soft 
tomentose beneath, deciduous, very unequal in size but not 
in shape, the larger ones 14 cm. in length by 4 cm. in 
width below the middle; the lateral nerves 3 to 5 on each 
side, obscure, soon divided into numerous but rather obscure 
reticulations; petiole 1 to 2 em. long, soft brown pubescent. 
Flowers several, clustered in the leaf axils of the drooping 
distal ends of the slender branchlets, ascending, purplich, 
eymosely paniculate; peduncles stout, briefly branched once 
or twice, rusty pubescent; pedicels similarly pubescent, slen- 
der, parallel, about 2 cm. long, bracteate toward the base, 
persistent; calyx 1 cm. in diameter at the base and cup 
shaped, sparsely pubescent, its 5 lobes about 15 mm. long, 
oblong or broadly strap like, 4 mm. wide, petaloid; petals 
shorter and narrower, otherwise similar and of the sane 
number, inserted upon the calyx rim; outer corona inserted 
upon the perianth cup, fibrilose, at least 15 mm. long; the 
inner corona of a ring of thick folds surrounding the broad- 
ened base of the gynophore; gynophore 8 mm. jong, 3 mm. 
thick, glabrous, bearing the sessile ovary and terminating 
into 5 filaments which are glabrous and flat especially toward 
the base and radially spreading and ultimately recurved; 
anthers dorsifixed. oblong, 4 mm. long, 1.3 mm. wide; ovary 
eilipsoid, 3 mm. in diameter, short pubescent; styles 3, 
radially spreading aud ultimately reflexed, nearly equalling 
the filaments, divided clear to the apex of the ovary, gla- 
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