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brown when dry, 10 to 18 cm. long. 5 to 7.5 cm. wide, the base usually acute, 

 somewhat decurrent, the apex blunt acuminate, both surfaces glabrous, 

 shining, foveolate; nerves 5 to 7 on each side of the midrib, subprominent, 

 irregular, curved upward, the primary reticulations lax, the ultimate reti- ' 

 culations relatively prominent, dense; petioles rugose, glabrous or nearly so, 

 1.5 to 2 cm. long, flattened or channeled above. Panicles 5 to 7 cm. long, 

 more or less fulvous pubescent, the ultimate branches rather densely so, the 

 longest branches not exceeding 2.5 cm. Flowers creamy white, fragrant, 

 about 7 mm. in diameter, the tube short, campanulate, fulvous pubescent 

 inside and out. Perianth segments 6, in two series, coriaceous, sparingly 

 fulvous pubescent outside, glabrous inside except at the base which is very 

 densely fulvous pubescent, oblong or elliptical oblong obtuse, the outer three 

 3 to 3.0 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide, the inner three 2.5 to 3 mm. long, 1.5 to 2 

 mm. wide. Stamens 3, very thick, densely fulvous pubescent throughout, 

 oblong-ovate, acute, erect, the margins approximate but free. Ovary free, 

 globose, glabrous, the style very short. Fruit nearly black when dry, 2 to 

 2.5 cm. long, 1 to 1.5 cm. thick. 



Specimens examined, all from Lamao River, Province of Bataan. Luzon: 

 (3066 Borden) May, 1905 (flower); (126, 190 Barnes) January, 1904 

 (fruit) ; (3780 Merrill) January, 1904 (fruit). Apparently also No. 2200 

 Merrill, Subic, Province of Zambales, Luzon, May, 1903, is referable here, 

 a specimen with immature flowers. A tree reaching a height of 25 m. 

 growing in the lower hill forests at an altitude of about 100 m. This 

 genus has not previously been reported from the Philippines. 



CAPPARIDACE^. 



Capparis oblongata, sp. nov. 



A scandent shrub reaching a height of 20 m. and a diameter of 4 cm., witli 

 oblong, membranous, glabrous, shortly abruptly acuminate leaves 10 cm. 

 long or less, and large Avhite flowers in axillary racemes towards the ends 

 of the branches, the whole inflorescence forming a terminal panicle, the 

 leaves failing above. Branches glabrous, the thorns recurved, usually 

 pubescent. Leaves bright green, 7 to 10 cm. long. 2.5 to 3.5 cm. wide, the 

 base abruptly rounded-subcordate ; nerves 9 or 10 on each side of the midrib, 

 anastomosing, not prominent; petioles 1 cm. long or less, rusty pubescent. 

 Panicles 20 to 25 cm. long, the lower racemes about 5 cm. long, glabrous or 

 sparingly pubescent, spreading, 4 to 8 flowered, the flowers long pedicelled, 

 the i)edicel3 slender, glabrous, 2.5 to 3 cm. long. Flowers white, fragrant, 

 including the stamens about 3 cm. long. Sepals four, 2-seriate, obovate, 

 about 1 cm. long, membranous, the margins ciliate. Petals 4, about equal- 

 ing the sepals, their margins strongly ciliate. Stamens indefinite, the 

 filaments slender; anthers 2 mm. long. Gynopliore 2.5 to 3 cm. long, 

 slender, glabrous. Ovary elliptical-ovoid, glabrous. 1-celled. the ovules 

 Arranged on four parietal placentae. 



Type specimen: Mount Mariveles, Province of Bataan, Luzon (2032 

 Meyer), February. 1905. A scandent shrub in the liill forests at an 

 altitude of about 500 m., not common. 



