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on the much thickened, irregiUar, glabrous, yellow receptacle. Male 

 flowers not known. 



Type specimen: Baguio, Province of Benguet, Luzon (5959 Elmer), 

 March, 1904. Not common in thickets on limestone outcroppings. A 

 species manifestly related to Kihara coriacea (Blume) TuL, but difTering 

 in its small, fewer nerved leaves and other characters. No. 6151 Elmer, 

 with fruits only, collected at Sablan, Province of Benguet, April, 1904, is 

 an apparently closely related species, if not identical. 



Matthaea chartacea, sp. nov. 



A shrub 3 to 4 m. high, with oblong ovate to lanceolate ovate, acuminate, 

 glabrous, chartaceous leaves 15 to 25 cm. long, and axillary 3-flowered 

 cymes about 1.5 cm. long, the receptacle fleshy, turbinate, truncate, nearly 

 glabrous, gradually narrowed below into the pedicel, the receptacle and 

 pedicel 1 cm. long. Branches light gray, glabrous, the terminal bud pubes- 

 cent. Leaves opposite, 15 to 25 cm. long, 5 to 10 cm. wide, the base acute, 

 the apex rather slender acuminate, the margins with distant, small teeth, 

 or subentire, dark above, pale brown and shining beneath when dry ; nerves 

 about 14 on each side of the midrib, obscure above, somewhat prominent 

 beneath, irregular, anastomosing and forming a marginal nerve, the reticu- 

 lations lax; petioles 1.5 to 2 cm. long, glabrous. Inflorescence solitary or 

 two or three peduncles from the same axil, the peduncles 5 to 7 mm. long, 

 strigose pubescent, the bracts and bracteoles about 1 mm. long, pubescent, 

 each peduncle with three flowers at the apex, the pedicels strigose pubes- 

 cent, gradually merging into the nearly glabrous receptacle. Receptacles 

 yellow, fleshy, 5 to 6 mm. long, turbinate, the apex truncate, somewhat 

 depressed, about 5 mm. in diameter, glabrous or with very few scattered 

 hairs. Tepals 4, small, obscure, obtuse. Stamens 4, free, the filaments 

 very short, broad; anthers broadly ovoid, 1 mm. long, the cells subparallel, 

 not confluent at the apex, the connective not at all produced. Female 

 flowers and fruits not known. 



Type specimen: Baco River, Mindoro (167 McGregor), April, 1905. 

 A species growing in humid forests, apparently closely related to Matthaea 

 ' coriacea Perk., ex description, diff'ering from that species in its chartaceous, 

 somewhat toothed leaves, longer peduncles and difl'erently shaped receptacles. 

 Matthaea sancta Blume, has been reported from the Philippines by Ceron ^ 

 ( 3574 Vidal ) , Luzon, but no species of the entire family is credited to the 

 Philippines in the recent monograph by Perkins and Gilg." 



LAURACEJ^. 



Endiandra coriacea, sp. nov. 



A large tree with coriaceous, glabrous, shining, alternate leaves 10 to 

 18 cm. long, axillary panicles shorter than the leaves and glabrous elliptical 

 or elliptical-oblong fruits 2 to 2.5 cm. long. Branches brown, lenticellate, 

 glabrous, the branchlets sparingly fulvous pubescent, becoming glabrous or 

 nearly so. Leaves ovate, ovate-lanceolate or oblong-ovate, usually pale 



'Cat. PI. Herb., 141. 1891. - Engler's Pflanzenreich 4. 1901. 



