Oct. 22, 1919] 



New Woody Plants from Mt. Maquiling 



3083 



FLACOURTIACEAE 



Casearia zschokkei Elm. 



n. sp. 



A tree up to 8 uq. high and 3 dm. thick. Branches 

 slender, yellowish brown to gray when dry and sprinkled 

 with grayish white lenticels, glabrous. Leaves alternate, 

 also glabrous, rigidly coriaceous, elliptic to elliptical ly 

 oblong, smooth and similarly green on both sides, lucid 

 above, broadlj' obtuse at the base, abruptly terminating 

 into a short recurved bluntly acute tip, entire, upon 1 

 to 1.5 cm. long shal lowly r.aniculate petiole, 6 to 9 cm. 

 wide, 12 to 18 cm. long; midrib prominent on both sides 

 and lighter colored, with about 5 ascendingly curved 

 pairs of lateral nerves equally conspicuous on both sur- 

 faces, reticulations plain from both sides. Flowers den- 

 sely fascicled in the leaf axils or in the axils of their 

 scars, creamy white; buds ovoidly elliptic, the 5 to 7 

 mm. long glabrous and coriaceous pedicels subtended by 

 minute grayish persistent and glabrous bracts whose 

 apical margins only are finely ciliate; perianth segments 

 5, nearly equalling the pedicels in length, the outer 2 

 slightly wider, rotund, nearly free, faintly 3-veined, im- 

 bricate, the inner protected margins thinner and usually 

 ciliate, concavo-convex; fertile stamens 7, alternating and 

 forming a subconnate rim with the blunt and woolly 

 covered staminodes, erect, from below the ovary; the 

 glabrate filaments compressed, 3.5 mm. long, fleshy; anthers 

 subbasifixed, elliptic, auriculate at the base, 1.25 mm. 

 long, terminated by a blunt point; pistil free, equalling 

 the stamens, sparsely ciliate; ovary conical ly elongated: 

 style thick and short; stigma slightly larger than the 

 style and flattened. 



Type specimen number 555, C. M. Mabesa, Los Bafios 

 (Mt. Maquiling), Province of Laguna, Luzon, September. 

 1919. Discovered on a dry forested ridged at 1000 feet 

 altitude. 



Casearia trivalvis {Blco.) Men: but our leaves are lar- 

 ger and shining green; flowers longer stalked, also larger 

 and glabrous. Dedicated to Theo. C. Zschokke, in charge 

 of the School of Forestry at Los BaSos. 



GESNERIACEAE 



Cyrtandra maquilingensis Elm. n. sp. 



A shrubby plant. Stem 5 cm. thick, 3 m. high, branched 

 from near the base; branchlets curved, conspicuously 



