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LauracecB, 8 numbers; Loraniliacece, 28 numbers; Myristicacece , 8 

 numbers; Myrtacece, 22 numbers; Meliacece, 12 numbers; Pi;;e- 

 racece, 12 numbers; RutacecB, 12 numbers; Sapindacece, 21 numbers; 

 StercuKace(B, 14 numbers; Scrophulariacece, 13 numbers; Tiliaceoe, 

 18 numbers; Urticacece, 21 numbers; Verbenacece, 34 numbers. 



Although Cuming collected his material more than sixty years 

 ago, and the duplicates were for most part widely distributed to 

 botanical institutions in Europe and America at an early date, 

 still many of his specimens have never been identified, especially 

 in such families as the Myrtacece and Anonacece. In the material 

 recently received are duplicate types of such recently described 

 species as Cynometra simpUcifolia Harms; AUophyliis quinatus 

 Eadlk. ; Grewia philippinensis Perk. ; Melicope philippinensis Engl. ; 

 and Vaccinium caudatum Warb., these species, with the exception 

 of the first, having been described within the past year wholly or in 

 part from specimens of Cuming's collection. In the material 

 received from the British Museum are the co-types of no less than 

 350 species, while a very large proportion of the remaining numbers 

 have been cited by authors as representing various species. The 

 following notes have been prepared from specimens in the herbarium 

 of this Bureau : 



MAGNOLIACE.^. 



Michelia parviflora sp. nov. 



A medium-sized tree with membranous, glabrous, oblong-lanceolate or 

 oblanceolate acuminate leaves and fragrant white flowers 2 cm. in diameter. 

 Branches brownish gray, the branchlets sparingly appressed ferruginous 

 pubescent. Leaves 8 to 12 cm. long, 2.5 to 4 cm. wide, glabrous or nearly 

 so, the midrib beneath with few short ferruginous hairs, both surfaces shin- 

 ing, the lower pale when dry, the apex prominently acuminate, the acumen 

 blunt, the base cuneate; primary nerves 11 to 13 on each side of the midrib, 

 about equally prominent on both surfaces and but slightly more prominent 

 than the secondary nerves and reticulations; petioles about 1 cm. long, with 

 few ferruginous hairs. Peduncles solitary, axillary, stout, about 3 mm. 

 long, and with the deciduous bracts densely appressed ferruginous pubes- 

 cent. Sepals oblong, obtuse, 10 mm. long, 3.5 mm. wide. Petals 7 or 8, 

 in two series, similar to the sepals but somewhat smaller. Stamens about 

 20, 3 to 4 mm. long. Stalk of the gynophore 2.5 mm. long, ferruginous 

 pubescent. Pistils about 8. Ovaries pubescent, each 2-ovuled, the ovules 

 superposed. 



Type specimen: Province of Tayabas. Luzon (783 Cuming), 1836-1840. 

 Bosoboso, also Province of Rizal, Lvizon (2155 Ahern's collector), De- 

 cember, 1904. 



