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l-ovuled, oblong, about 2 mm. long, densely rufous pul)eseeiit in ])iiit. 

 one side glabrous; style slender, glabrous, 3 mm. long; stigma sliglitly 

 bifid. 



Type specimen No. G105 (A. D. E. Elmer), Sablan, Province of Benguet, 

 Luzon, April, 1904. Apparently also represented by Xos. 277 and 324 

 (H. N. Whitford), Lamao River, Province of Bataan, Luzon, May, 1904. 

 A shrub or small tree growing in the hill forests. 



Orophea glabra sp. nov. 



A small tree about 10 m. high, with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous 

 leaves, solitary, yellow, odorless flowers about 1 cm. long with 9 to 12 

 stamens, the ripe carpels globose. Branches slender, brown or brownish 

 gray, glabrous, the ultimate branchlets with very few scattered ferrugi- 

 nous hairs. Leaves membranous, 5 to 10 cm. long, 2 to 4 cm. wide, the 

 apex slender acuminate, the base acute; nerves about 6 on each side of 

 the midrib, not prominent, the reticulations Very lax; petioles glabrous, 

 1 to 2 mm. long. Flowers axillary, the pedicels about 5 mm. long, rusty 

 pubescent and with 4 to 5 alternate distichous bracts 1 mm. long or less. 

 Sepals red, broadly ovate or suborbicular, blimt, about 1 mm. long, the 

 margins rusty pubescent. Outer petals broadly obovate or suborbicular, 

 glabrous, except the pubescent margins, 3.5 mm. long, 3 mm. wide. Inner 

 petals 9 cm. long, the claw 4 mm. long, the lamina trapezoidal 5 mm. 

 long, 4 mm. wide, glabrous except the cohering margins above Avhich 

 are pubescent. Stamens 9 or 12, 0.6 to 0.8 mm. long, the connective with 

 a short, conical, apical point. Ovaries 6 to 7, each 2-ovuled, ellipsoid 

 or oblong, 1 mm. long, sparingly pubescent, the stigmas sessile, subglobose 

 or oblong. Carpels (immature) globose, smooth and shining, 8 mm. in 

 diameter. 



Type specimen No. 1017 (Forestry Bureau), collected by W. W. Clark, 

 Island of Ticao, May 31, 1904. A small tree reaching a diameter of about 

 15 cm., growing in open hill forests, the timber being used for rafters 

 and frames in house construction, common in Ticao and known to the 

 Visayans as Lanutan, a name commonly applied to many different species 

 of the Anonacece. A species apparently most closely related to Orophea 

 nniflom Hook. f. et Thoms., a species of British India. 



Uvaria stellata sp. nov. 



A stout scandent shrub with subcoriaceous, entirely glabrous oblong, 

 ■ acuminate or nearly acute leaves, and solitary, axillary or subterminal 

 dark-red flowers 4 cm. in diameter, the petals outside, densely fulvous 

 lepidote-stellate pubescent. Branches dark, nearly black when dry, striate, 

 glabrous. Leaves 12 to 17 cm. long, 5 to 6.5 cm. wide, both surfaces 

 smooth and shining, slightly narrowed to the rounded base, the apex 

 bluntly acuminate; nerves about 15 on each side of the midrib, not 

 prominent, the reticulations lax; petioles rugose, glabrous, thickened, 5 

 mm. long. Flowers solitary, their pedicels thick, densely fulvous stel- 

 late pubescent, about 1 cm. long. Calyx deeply lobed, densely stellate 

 pubescent outside, pubescent inside, the lobes broadly ovate, acute, about 

 1 cm. long, 1 cm. wide below. Petals ovate or elliptical, the apex rounded, 



