NEW OK NOTEWOKTHY I'lJlLUTINE PLANTS, VI. 223 



beneath, the reticulations fine, indistinct; petioles very stout, 5 mm long. 

 Flowers lateral (?), nearly glabrous, pedicels about 4 cm long. Sepals 

 3, broadly ovate, united below, acute, slightly pubescent, about 3 mm 

 long. Petals (3, flat, glabrous, or with few scattered hairs, oblong-lan- 

 ceolate, acute, the three outer ones 4 to 4.5 cm long, 11 to 13 mm wide, 

 the three inner ones slightly shorter and narrower. Stamens indefinite, 

 1.1 mm long, connectives truncate, overlapping. Carpels indefinite, 

 somewhat pubescent. 



Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Port Banga, For. Bur. 0Jf56 Whitford d 

 Hutchinson, February, 1908, in forests at 50 m above the sea. 



A species well characterized by its very long, strongly nerved and cordate 

 leaves, the attachment of the inflorescence not being indicated and the specimens 

 not showing the same. A very similar species, in fruit, from the same locality 

 is represented by For. Bur. 9113 Whitford c€ Hutchinson, but the leaves are 

 relatively narrower, not cordate at the base and have about 25 pairs of lateral 

 nerves. 



MELODORUM Dunal. 



Melodorum rufum (Presl) comb. nov. 



Anona rufa Presl Rel. Haenk. 2 (1835) 75. 



Luzon, without locality, Haenke in Herb. Prague, native name Apnit, ex Presl. 



After examining Presl's type in Herb. Prague I do not hesitate to refer this 

 species to Melodorum, it apparently being allied to M. latifolium, differing from 

 that species in its glabrous, acuminate leaves. Index Kewensis gives the locality 

 of the species as "Am. trop." but on what authority is not known, probably, 

 however, on the assumption that Presl was correct in describing the species as 

 Anona, the genus being largely developed in tropical America, and represented 

 in the Malayan region only by introduced and cultivated species. 



OROPHEA Blume. 



Orophea bracteolata sp. nov. 



Arbor parva: foliis oblongis, usque ad 12 cm longis, breviter acumi- 

 natis, nervis utrinque ca. 9, valde obliquis; iioribus in cymis axillaribus 

 congestis, petalis interioribus valde unguiculatis, laminis rhomboideis. 



A small tree, about 9 m high, the branches terete, dark-reddish-brown, 

 glabrous, lenticellate, the ultimate branchlets somewhat ferruginous- 

 pubescent. Leaves oblong, subcoriaceous, 9 to 13 cm long, 3 to 4 cm 

 wide, base acute or rounded, often slightly oblique, the apex short- 

 acuminate, somewhat shining, glabrous on both sides, except on the 

 midrib and nerves beueath which are appressed-pubescent ; nerves about 

 9 on each side of the midrib, oblique, curved-ascending, very prominent 

 beneath; petioles 2 to 3 mm long, pubescent. Cymes axillary, densely 

 ferruginous-puljescent, densely flowered, 1.5 cm long or less, the pedicels 

 about 5 mm long, pubescent, with a large ovate, strongly acuminate, 

 pubescent bracteole about 3.5 mm long, at about the middle. Sepals 3, 

 ovate, acute, pubescent, about 3 mm long. Outer three petals broadly 

 ovate, acute or slightly acuminate, ferruginous-pubescent, 4 to 5 mm long, 



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