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represented by the following specimens: Province of Bataan, Mount Mari- 

 veles (304, 441 Whitford), May and July, 1904; (6787, 6977 Elmer), 

 November, 1904; (1905, 2378 Borden) and (2402 Meyer), January, 1905. 

 Province of Tayabas, Mount Banahao (1007 Whitford), October, 1904. 

 Province of Benguet, Mount Santo Tomas (5808 Elmer), March, 1904. 

 It was with some hesitation that Blanco's Salceda montana was identified 

 with the species here described, as in one detail his description does not 

 agree with the plant here considered. Blanco described his species as 

 having 13 free stamens, while in the specimens enumerated above I have 

 not found more than 5 free stamens, and usually but three. As in all 

 other characters our specimens agree so well with Blanco's description, it 

 is considered that the specimens here cited represent his species, which is 

 apparently very distinct from others in the genus. If in the future, how- 

 ever, specimens are secured from the vicinity of Angat, Province of Bulacan, 

 Luzon, the type locality of Salceda montana Blanco, that agree more closely 

 with Blanco's description than do our specimens from ]\Iount Banahao and 

 Mount Mariveles, then the species here described will have to receive a new 

 name. The species here considered is certainly represented by the figure 

 in Vidal's Sinopsis, cited above, to which in his Revision, Vidal refers 

 No. 01 of his collection, from Mount Banahao. According to a manuscript 

 list of identifications of Loher's Philippine Plants, made at Kew, No. 80 

 Loher is identical with No. 61 Vidal. 



VIOLACE^. 



Rinorea copelandi, sp. nov. % Prot%esia. 



A small tree 6 to 7 m. high, with oblong-obovate, membranous leaves 

 which are narrowed to the acute base, and axillary, hirsute-pubescent, short, 

 fascicled, cymose inflorescence, the anther cells and connectives appondaged. 

 Branches light gray, almost white, somewhat pubescent, becoming glabrous, 

 the younger portions densely ferruginous-pubescent with spreading hairs. 

 Leaves 18 to 22 cm. long, 9 to 12 cm. wide, dark, glabrous and somewhat 

 shining above, pale, shining and somewhat pubescent, especially on the 

 midrib beneath, the apex short acuminate, the base acute, the margins 

 obscurely glandular dentate or crenate-dentate ; nerves about 18 on each 

 side of the midrib, prominent beneath, spreading-ascending, the reticulations 

 subparallel; petioles 1.5 to 2 cm. long, pubescent. Inflorescence of short, 

 few-flowered cymes, 2 cm. long or less, or merely fascicled, the axis, 

 branches, bracts, and calyx lobes uniformly, but not densely hirsute- 

 pubescent. Flowers about 6 mm. long, pedicellate. Calyx lobes oblong- 

 ovate, 2 mm. wide, obtuse. Petals elliptical-oblong, thin, glabrous, obtuse, 

 5 mm. long, 2 to 2.5 mm. wide. Stamens 5, inserted on an annular disk, 

 the anthers including the appendages, broadly ovate, 1.0 mm. long; filaments 

 short, broad; appendage of the conective suborbicular, 1 mm. in diameter, 

 of the anther cells subulate, 0.5 mm. long. Ovary oblong, 2 mm. long, 

 somewhat pubescent; style 2 mm. long glabrous. Fruit unknown. 



Type specimen: Catalonan, District of Davao, Mindanao (943 Copcland), 

 April, 1904. 



