ATJGD8T 18, 19T3] Tour Score or Xew Plants 1849 



tude along the trail to Napsan. Named after //. M. Curran, 

 an exforester in the Philippine governnieiit .service and who 

 lias also collected it on Pidawan. 



Only critically distingnished from C. infotiunalum (Rorb.) 

 Linn. 



VIOLACEAE 

 Rinorea pul^arensis Elm. n. sp. 



Suberect shrub; wood clo.-ely graiired, wliite except the 

 "dingy yellowish central portiun, odorless and tasteless; hark 

 ■smooth, gray except the testacens inner portion; stem 5 to 

 8 cm. thick, terete, 3 to 4 m. high; its main branches from 

 •below the middle, crookedly rebranched, widely spreading, the 

 lax twigs puberulent at the young green tips. Leaves hor- 

 izontal or descending, thinly coriaceous, fiat, dark gre«-n and 

 glabrous above, very much lighter betreath, the young ones 

 pleasing light green, the two sides very unequally brown in 

 the dry state, apex slenderly acute to acuminate, base broadly 

 obtuse to subcuneate, diverse in size, the smaller ones lan- 

 ceolate, the larger blades narrowly oblong and 4 by 15 cm. 

 in size, margins entire; mid vein pronounced beneath and fine- 

 ly caniculate along the upper side; lateral nerves 7 to 9 

 pairs, oblique, the tips united a mm. below the edge of the 

 leaf, reticulations minute and quite evident on the nether 

 Hide; petiole 5 'to 8 mm. long, glabro'is and caniculate, be- 

 coming scurfy with age; bud bracts short and tawny pu- 

 bescent. Flowers occasionally solitary but usually in small 

 groups upon short pubescently bracteated green stalks or tu- 

 bercles; pedicel short, similarly bracteated; calyx campanulate, 

 leathery, appressed puberulent on the exterior, ovately 3 to 

 4-segmented, the basal one third united, the apex broadly 

 rounded, 3.5 mm. long including the concrete base; corolla 

 ovoidly cylindric, o mm. long, similarly puberulent on the 

 exterior, rigidly coriaceous, the apical 2 mm. 3 to 4-lobulate; 

 the lobes short, ovate in outline, subauriculate at the basal 

 sides, usually somewhat folded and slightly curved toward 

 the obtuse apex; stamens in pairs, about 7 or 8, included; 

 filaments much flattened, glabrous, falsely united to the basal 



