207 



fcrnigiiKnis pubescent. Leaves 10 to 20 cm. long, 5 to 12 cm. wide, 

 submembranons, tbe l)ase broad, cordate, usually somewhat inequilateral; 

 the apex acuminate, the margins rather finely irregularly serrate, pulses- 

 cent on the nerves and midrib above, paler and rather densely stellate 

 pubescent beneath, the 1jase 5-nerved, the lateral nerves prominent, 5 

 to 6 on each side of the midrib, ascending, the reticulations rather lax; 

 petioles 5 to 10 mm. long, densely pubescent. Inflorescence of axillary, 

 peduncled CMues 4 to 7 cm. long, the peduncles, branches, pedicels, and 

 calyces densely uniformly ferruginous stellate pubescent, the peduncles 

 1.5 to 3 cm. long. Pedicels about 5 mm. long. Sepals free, oblong, 

 acute, 7 to 8 mm. long, about 3.5 mm. wide, densely stellate pubescent 

 outside, glabrous inside. Petals 5, about 6 mm. long, 1.5 to 2 mm. wide, 

 acute, glabrous except at the thickened base which is rather densely 

 pubescent. Stamens indefinite, inserted on the inside of a short densely 

 villous disk; filaments-slender, glabrous, 3 to 4 mm. long; anthers broad, 

 about 0.5 mm. long. Ovary sessile, oblong, densely villous, 3-celled, 

 each cell many ovuled. Style about 1.5 mm. long, expanded upward 

 into the broad somewhat cleft stigma. Capsule nearly 1 cm. long, 

 triangular, 3-valved, the style persistent, the valves pale and glabrous 

 inside, densely ferruginous villous outside. Seeds many, 1.5 to 2 mm. 

 long, compressed, the hairs of the arillus long. 



Luzon, Province of Rizal, Antipolo (398 Ahern's collector) February, 1904; 

 Bosoboso (1161 Ahei-n's collector) June, 1904. Mindoro, Bonga bong River (1391 

 M'hitford) January, 1906. 



The first species of tlie geiuis to be reported from the Pliilippines, differing from 

 all other described ones in its 3-valved capsules. Of the three other known species 

 of the genus one is foiuid in Java, one in the Fiji Islands, and one in Perak and 

 the Nicobar Islands. 



MALVACE^. 



ABELMOSCHUS .Aledik. 



Abelmoschus luzoniensis ^Icrrill sp. nov. A. mof<cha1us Perk. Frag. Fl. Philip. 

 (1904) 111, in part. 

 An erect, herbaceous, somewhat Ijranchcd annual, the vegetative por- 

 tions densely velutinous pubescent and with scattered simple or stel- 

 lately disposed bristle-like hairs, the bracteoles 5 to 7, ovate-lanceolate. 

 P) ranches terete, the pubescence and bristles cinereous to fulvous, the latter 

 few or many. Leaves 9 to 15 cm. long, cordate, deeply palmately 5-lobed, 

 rather densely pubescent on both surfaces and with few or many stellately 

 disposed bristle-like hairs, the outer lobes short, the others 7 to 13 cm. 

 long, lanceolate, rather coarsely lyrately lol)ed, acuminate; petioles 8 cm. 

 long or less, densely pubescent and with i'vw bristles; stipules linear, 

 about 7 mm. long. Flowers forming terminal racemes, yellow, the 

 pedicels equaling the petioles, similarly pubescent. Bracteoles ovate 

 lanceolate to oIjIdu^-. 5 to 7, at length deciduous. 1 to 2.5 cm. longf. 



