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so, the petiole proper about 5 cm. long, prominently channeled above. 

 Leaflets membranous, glabrous, usually reddish when dry, oblong-ovate to 

 elliptical-ovate, 10 to 20 cm. long, 3 to 7 cm. wide, the apex usually 

 abruptly short caudate-acuminate, the acumen bltmt, the base acute, equal 

 or slightly inequilateral; nerves about 8 on each side of the midrib, 

 curved upwards, obscurely anastomosing, the reticulations lax, very faint; 

 petiolules 3 to 5 mm. long. Panicles axillary, on the leaf-bearing branch- 

 lets, 8 cm. long or less, few flowered, slightly ferruginous furfuraceous- 

 pubescent, the branches few, spreading, the lower ones about 2 cm. long. 

 Flowers greenish Avhite. Calyx with 5 obscure teeth, sparingly pubescent. 

 Petals, 5 or sometimes 6, very slightly pubescent towards the apex with 

 few scattered hairs, 10 to 11 mm. long, about 2.5 mm. wide. Staminal 

 tube 8 to 9 mm. long, glabrous, free from the petals, the apex irregularly 

 obscurely toothed. Stamens 10, sometimes 11, inserted near the apex of 

 the tube, included; anthers 1 mm. long. Disk about 1.5 mm. long, only 

 slightly exceeding the ovary. Ovary densely pubescent, 4-celled; style 

 pubescent below; stigma discoid. Fruit subglobose, dehiscent, glabrous, 

 red when mature, about 2.5 cm. in diameter; seeds usually 4, oblong, 

 slightly compressed, nearly 2 cm. long. 



Type specimen: Lamao River, Province of Bataan, Luzon (1293 Whit- 

 ford), May 18, 1905 (flower), and also from the same locality (2013 

 Borden), October, 1904. (fruit). No. 871 Whitford, Gumaca, Province of 

 Tayabas, Luzon, September, 1904, is also referred here, and No. 3108 Ahern's 

 collector, Bosoboso, Province of Rizal, Luzon, May, 1905. A tree grow- 

 ing in the hill forests at altitudes of from 10 to 180 m. above the sea, 

 reaching a height of about 20 m. 



MALPHIGIACE^. 



Hiptage luzonica, sp. nov. 



A scandent shrub with ovate to lanceolate, acuminate, somewhat pu- 

 bescent leaves 6 cm. long or less, pubescent racemes, and small fruits. 

 Branches dark brown, lenticellate, glabrous, the young branchlets densely 

 appressed fulvous-pubescent. Leaves subcoriaceous, 4 to G cm. long, 1 to 

 2.3 cm. wide, the base acute, the apex sharp or blunt acuminate, glabrous 

 and shining above, beneath sparingly pubescent with scattered, appressed, 

 shining, pale, or fulvous hairs; nerves not prominent, 5 to 6 pairs; petioles 

 3 to 4 mm. long, densely fulvous pubescent. Racemes densely appressed 

 pubescent, 3 to 5 cm. long, the pedicels slender, about 1 cm. long. Flowers 

 1.5 cm. in diameter or less. Calyx 3 mm. long, densely cinereous-pubescent, 

 with a single large gland, lobes obtuse. Petals densely sericeous pubescent 

 outside, clawed. Fruit small, somewhat ferruginous pubescent, the winga 

 glabrous or nearly so, the middle one about 1.5 cm. long, 5 mm. wide, the 

 lateral ones less than 1 cm. long. 



Type specimen: Mount Mariveles, Province of Bataan, Luzon (1148 

 Whitford), March 24, 1905. A scandent shrub clambering over low trees 

 on exposed ridges at an altitude of 910 m. above the sea. 



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