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Leaflets of Philippine Botany 



[Vol. vin, Art. 121 



along water courses. Named after C Mabesa who first 

 discovered it in fruit. 



Neonauclea kobbei Elm. n. sp. 



A small tree. Branchlets many, relatively short and 

 forming dense masses, grayish, somewhat flattened at 

 the point of branching, glabrous; bud bracts 1.5 cm. 

 long, spathulate. Leaves opposite, also glabrous, shining 

 and deeper green on the upper surface, oblong, bluntly 

 obtuse, obtusely rounded at the base, upon 8 to 12 mm. 

 long caniculate petioles, 4 by 10 cm. or smaller, curing 

 equally brown on both sides; the conspicuous midrib with 

 5 to 7 slightly ascendingly curved lateral nerves on each 

 side, reticulations obscure. Inflorescence terminal, leaf 

 subtended, about 3 cm. long, with a short peduncle 

 bearing 2 or sometimes 3 pedicellate heads, or as usual 

 with only 3 pedicels, the 5 to 8 mm. long peduncle and 2 

 cm. long pedicels compressed and in the young state 

 appearing strigose; flowering heads pale white, globose, 

 2 cm. in diameter; calyx 2 mm. long, minutely 5 toothed 

 across the apex, gradually narrowed toward the base, 

 densely gray tomentose; corolla glabrous, 5 mm. long, 

 tubular but gradually enlarged from the base toward 

 the apex, easily becoming dettached; segments 5, ovately 

 rounded, 1.5 mm. long; stamens as many and alternating 

 with the corolla lobes, inserted just below the throat; 

 anthers upon very short filaments, oblong, 1 mm. in 

 length; style persistent, almost twice as long as the 

 corolla, fleshy and especially thickened toward the top, 

 terminated by a large ovately globose stigma. 



Type specimen collected by F. Calycosa, Los Bafios 

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

 1914. Here is also referred number 17 Wm. H. Kobb 

 (Bureau of Forestry 6071), Gumaca, Tayabas province, 

 Luzon, December, 1906. 



Its few branched inflorescence and its densely pubes- 

 cent calyx distinguish it from Neonauclea barnardoi Merr. 

 Prom Neonauclea calycina (Bartl.) Merr. it is separated by its 

 smaller heads upon shorter stalks and smaller bluntly 

 pointed leaves. Dedicated to Wm. H. Kobbe, a former 

 forester of the Bureau of Forestry. 



SAPINDACBAE 

 Pegia philippinensis Elm. n. sp. 



A liana like shrub. Stem terete though crooked, 8 



