JANUARY 25, 1908] A CENTURY OF NEW PLANTS 336 
glabrous, rigid, 3 to 6 dm. long; secondary peduncles aver- 
aging 1 cm. in length, densely matted with short rusty 
brown hairs, stout, terete, but usually upwardly curved; pe- 
dicels 3 to 5 em. long, articulate, becoming subglabrous, 
gradually thickened toward the apex; flowers delicate, large, 
white with a tinge of red; corolla glabrous, subeampanulate, 
with 5-lobed margins; bracts reduced to a thick rim; sepals 
inequal, convex and imbricate, persistent, 5, the outer 2 
or 3 about 2 cm. long and enclosing the inner ones, scarious, 
smooth, brown on the outer side, somewhat lighter on the 
inner sides, obovate or ovate to broadly elliptic, the body 
rather thiek with thin margins, style 2.5 cm. long, very 
slender, glabrous; stamens not observed; capsule ovoid, 
smooth and dark brown on the exterior, velvety white on 
the interior, 1.5 cm. long, bursting from the apex, united 
at the base, seed hard, nearly black, 6 mm. across, the 
inner 3 sides plane and covered with short blackish hairs, 
the outer concave side and specially along the edges densely 
covered with long persistent similarly colored hairs. 
Type specimen 7341, A. D. E. Elmer, Palo, Province of 
Leyte, Leyte, January, 1906. Similar to the orange yellow gla- 
brous M. nymphaeifolia Hallier which is more common in 
our locality. 
VERBENACEAE. 
Callicarpa paloensis n. sp.— Erect tree, 9 m. high, with 
an umbrella shaped crown; branchlets pulverulent, melleus 
yellow. Leaves opposite, scattered along the branchlets, broad- 
ly lanceolate, coriaceous, flat, margins entire and involute, 
the young ones stellately pubescent on the upper surface 
but ultimately becoming glabrous, beneath melleus and densely 
covered with short stellate hairs, the upper portion gradually 
tapering into a sharply acuminate point, base similarly taper- 
ing, attenuate or cuneate, the normal blades 18 cm. long, 
6 em. wide; petiole strict, 2 cm. long, grooved, similarly colored 
and pubescent, ascending: nerves very prominent beneath, 
on each side 9 to 11, ascendingly curved, cross bars quite 
conspicuous. Inflorescence terminal and subterminal or from 
the upper leaf axils, ascending in flower; peduncle 3 to 5 
em. long, pubescent, the secondary ones repeatedly shorter 
