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pale yellow, the tube CTlindrical, slender, swollen below, constricted above, 

 glabrous outside, hirsute within, limb lobed, the lobes spreading, 6 mm. 

 long, 3 mm. wide at about the middle, then abruptly narrowed on one side, 

 the terminal portion about 1.5 mm. wide, subobtuse. Stamens included in 

 about the lower third of the tube, the anthers in the swollen portion, free 

 from the style; filaments about 0.5 mm. long, pubescent; anthers 1.5 mm. 

 long, oblong lanceolate, apiculate, the lobes rounded at the base. Ovary 

 of t\Vo distinct glabrous oblong carpels united by the style, the ovary and 

 style 3.5 mm. long, the style slender, not reaching beyond the anthers, 

 slightly swollen above, the stigma slightly 2-lobed; ovules many in each 

 cell, 2 or more seriate. Follicle unknown. 



Type specimen: Baco River, Mindoro (285 R. C. McGregor), April 23, 

 1905. A scandent shrub growing in very humid forests, reaching a height 

 of about 20 m. A species perhaps most closely related to Ellertonia rheedii 

 Wight, a species of British India, but very distinct from the latter. A 

 genus not previously reported from the Philippines, of which one species 

 is known from British India, and three from Madagascar. 



BORRAGINACE^. 



CORDIA. 



1. Calyx prominently 10-striate, hirsute-pubescent. 



2. Leaves obtuse or subeordate at the base (1) C.cumingiana 



2. Leaves acute at the base (2) C. proquinqua 



1. Calyx glabrous or pubescent, not striate. 



2. Flowers small 5 to 7 mm. long, the corolla tube shorter than 

 the calyx. 



3. Plant glabrous or nearly so (3) C.blancoi 



3. Plant softly pubescent (-1) C. blaneoi mollis 



2. Flowers large 3 to 4 cm. long the corolla tube exceeding the 



calyx (5) C. sitbcordata 



(1) Cordia cumingiana Vidal, Phan. Cum. Philip. 128, 187. 1885; Rev. 



PI. Vase. Filip. 192. 1886; Ceron, Cat. PI. Herb. 120. 1892. 

 A distinct endemic species represented by No. 1181 Merrill, Mindoro; 

 (1321 Merrill), Province of Rizal, Luzon, and No. 5663 Elmer, Province of 

 Union, Luzon. 



(2) Cordia propinqua, sp. nov. 



A small tree with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, irregularly serrate spar- 

 ingly scabrous-pubescent leaves, and rather lax terminal and axillary 

 corymbs, the sessile flowers glomerate at the ends of the branchlets, 5 mm. 

 long, the tubular calyx densely hirsute, prominently 10-striate, 5-dentate. 

 Branches brown, sparingly appressed hirsute. Leaves membranous, 9 to 16 

 cm. long, 4 to 7 cm. Avide, widest at about the middle, narrowed below to 

 the acute base, and above to the rather slender acuminate apex, the margins 

 irregularly serrate above, entire below, both surfaces with few short scat- 

 tered appressed hairs; nerves about 6 on each side of the midrib, sharply 

 ascending; petioles 1.5 to 2.5 cm. long, sparingly appressed hirsute. Cor- 

 ymbs about 10 cm. long, dichotomously branched, appressed hirsute. 



