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2576 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY Vor. VII, Arr. 114 
CAPRIFOLIACEAE 
Viburoum laxum Elm. n. sp. 
A 3 to 4 m high and laxly branched aob: dim 8 
em thick, its main branches arising from below the middle; 
branchlets numerous, the younger portion yellowish. brown 
pubescent, divaricately rebranched. Leaves opposite, terminal 
or from the point of branching, membranous, horizontal or 
descending, curing green,: ovately or more commonly short 
oblong, at the base broadly obtuse to short cuneate or sub 
panduriform, gradually tapering into the acute to acuminate 
apex, entre toward or around the base, otherwise coarsely 
and sharply dentate or very obscurely dentate, the ' average 
lamina 8 cm long and 3.5 cm wide at the middle or just 
below it, the flat darker green side nearly glabrous and 
very finely blistery, soft but sparsely pubescent beneath; 
petioles 5 to 8 mm long,. densely pubescent; midrib simi- 
lar ‘on. ¡both sides of the leaf, bold beneath, impressed 
above; lateral nerves 5 to 7° pairs, strict, much ascending, 
nearly, parallel, tips terminating into the teeth, relatively 
bold and hairy beneath, reticulations. very obscure, not seen 
from the upper surface. Inflorescence terminal, solitary or 
few pedunculate, about 8 cm long and fully as  wide,. 
laxly and subumbellately branched from below the middle, 
the branchlets similarly rebranched toward their distal ends; 
all slender and soft sulphureus pubescent; ultimate branch- 
lets terminated by a solitary flower, the lateral short ones 
bearing at their ends a small gronp of flowers; pedicel 2 
to 3 or even 5 mm long, subtended. at the base by very 
minute bracts; flowers sessile or upon 5 mm long lanose 
or finely stellate pubescent stalks which are terminated by 
a brush of ciliate hairs, yellowish white, becoming easily 
detached; perianth tube 2 mm long by 1 mm thick, finely 
glandular, ciliate hairy; the 5 lobes rotately spreading, 
ovately elliptic, 2.5 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, veiny, glab- 
rous on both sides except the middle region toward the 
base; stamens also 5, alternating with the segments, the 
glabrous and subterete filaments 2 mm long; anther dor- 
sifixed, 1 mm long, oblong, obscurely emarginate at the apex, 
