KouiNSON : Alabastra piiiiippinensia 69 



torus globose in fruit, flattened on toj) in flower ; calyx in butl 

 separated into lobes only at the tip, ultimately 2- or 3-lobed, semi- 

 orbicular, lobes about 2.5 cm. long and 3 cm. wide across middle, 

 shortly and obtusely acuminate : petals dark-red, 6, in two row.**, 

 subequal, imbricate in bud, coriaceous, narrowly to broadly ellip- 

 tic, 3.5-4.4 cm. long, 1.7-2.4 cm. wide, attached by 5-6 cm. of 

 their bases, rounded at the apex : stamens 200-250, 7 mm. long, 

 I nun. wide, the anther-cells covered at the tip by the connec- 

 tives : carpels about 100, when nearing maturity about 4 cm. 

 long and 8 mm. in diameter, nearly cylindric, apiculate, ferruginous- 

 tomentose, rarely (and then only slightly) constricted, their walls 

 granular; ovules few (12). 



A low bush or sometimes climbing over trees, its stems i . 5-2 cm. 

 in diameter, with light- to dark-gray bark, scaly becoming striate; 

 ferruginous-tomentose on the younger parts, becoming glabrous : 

 leaves 15-32 cm. long, 5-12.5 cm. wide, borne on petioles 3-8 

 mm. long, elHptic-obovate, rounded or acute or sharply acuminate 

 at the apex, cordate at the base, bluish-green above, paler and 

 reddish-veined beneath, glabrous except on the midrib and primary 

 veins of the upper surface; primary veins on each side of the mid- 

 rib I 5-20. 



Type collected at Santa Cruz, Province of Davao, Mindanao, 

 by R. S. Williams, uo. Jo^2, in flower, June 29, 1905 : also repre- 

 sented by Williatns J02J from the same locality, in fruit, July i i, 

 1905. 



Very similar in its vegetative aspect to U. scandejis, but at 

 once distinguishable by the entirely different inflorescence and the 

 larger flowers. 



Uvaria scandens sp. nov. 



Flowers hermaphrodite, borne in short cymes or rarely singly, 

 upon short, fascicled, warty, suberose branches from leafless por- 

 tions of the stem, the inflorescence throughout ferruginous-tomen- 

 to.se : pedicels at anthesis 8-10 mm. long, bracteoles orbicular- 

 ovate, somewhat clasping : torus depressed-hemispheric ; calyx 

 undivided in bud except at the extreme apex, gradually splitting, 

 at first leaving only a triangular or semilunar opening, until at 

 anthesis the 3 or rarely 4 lobes are separated to within 2.5 mm. 

 of the base ; calyx-lobes suborbicular, broadest a little below the 

 middle, 8-10 mm. long, 9-10 mm. wide: petals imbricate in bud, 

 subequal, broadly oval or ovate, all ultimately spreading, 13-15 

 mm. long, lo-i i mm. wide : .stamens about 500 in number, 1.7-1.8 

 mm. long, the anther cells covered at the apex by the connective : 



