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capitate inflorescence, the flowers purple, the capsule shorter than the sepals. 

 Stems simple, about 1 cm. thick, glabrous, prostrate below and rooting at 

 the nodes. Leaves including the petioles 30 to 36 cm. long, 7 to 10 cm. 

 wide, membranous, glabrous except the somewhat villous margin above, 

 the young leaves slightly pubescent beneath, the apex slender caudate 

 acuminate, narrowed below into the 6 cm. long glabrous or puberulous 

 winged petiole; sheaths lax, 4 to 5 cm. long, glabrous or nearly so, except 

 the ciliate villous margin. Inflorescence 3 to 4 cm. in diameter, many 

 flowered; bracts broadly ovate, acute 6 mm. long. Sepals subequal, 12 mm. 

 long, 5 to 6 mm. wide when spread, firm, purple, keeled, cucullate, the keel 

 at the apex forming a small crest, slightly strigose pubescent or nearly gla- 

 brous. Petals membranous, equaling the sepals. Stamens 6, all fertile, 

 the filaments glabrous; anthers 1.8 mm. long. Capsule ellipsoid, mem- 

 branous, 9 mm. long, 6 mm. thick, somewhat trigonous, very slightly pubes- 

 cent with short scattered hairs or nearly glabrous. Seeds 3.5 to 4 mm. 

 long, 2.5 to 3 mm. thick, rugose. 



Type specimen: Baco Pdver, Mindoro (4051 Merrill), March 15, 1905; 

 also, from the same locality (323 McGregor), May 9, 1905. A rare plant 

 in very humid forests, found once only by the author and once by Mr. 

 McGregor. No. 654 Whitford, Atimonan, Tayabas Province, Luzon, is the 

 same, growing along streams in forests. 



The first species of the genus to be reported from the Philippines, ap- 

 parently related to Forrestia marginata Hassk., and F. hispida Less., 

 difi"ering from the former in its larger, nearly glabrous leaves, much larger 

 flowers, and the capsule shorter than the sepals, and from the latter in 

 its caudate acuminate leaves and other characters. Forrestia mollis Hassk., 

 differs especially from tlie species here proposed in its smaller leaves and 

 flowers, the leaves being villous beneath. 



JUGLANDACE^. 



Englehardtia subsimplicifolia sp. nov. 



A small tree 8 or 9 m. high, with simple, or at most 1-jugate leaves, 

 the leaflets entire, glandular on both surfaces. Branches gray or brown, 

 glabrous, the young parts densely lepidote-glandular. Leaves alternate, 

 the rhachis lepidote glandular, 1.5 cm. long; leaflet solitary or a single 

 terminal pair, subcoriaceous, oblong-ovate, acute, subacuminate or obtuse, 

 the base narrowed, inequilateral, the upper surface dark, the lower surface 

 pale, not at all pubescent, the glands numerous above, very numerous 

 -beneath; nerves 14 to 18 pairs, prominent beneath, the reticulations ob- 

 scure; petiolules 1 to 2 mm. long. Male inflorescence axillary, simple or 

 slightly branched, subpendulous, 1 to 1.5 cm. long, the rhachis and bracts 

 glandular-lepidote ; anthers ovoid, about 1 mm. long. Female flowers not 

 known, the racemes in fruit, including the peduncle, 8 to 12 cm. long, erect, 

 the rhachis glandular-lepidote. hirsute with scattered hairs, the bract 

 3-lobed, sparingly glandular-lepidote, the middle lobe 1.5 cm. long, 4 mm. 

 wide, oblong-spatulate, acute or obtuse, the lateral lobes less than 1 cm. 

 long. 



