NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VI. 225 



A widely distributed species in the Philippines, extending from central Luzor. 

 to southern INIindaTuio, the only representative of the genus known from the 

 Archipelago. After an examination of Presl's type in Herb. Prague, I am able to 

 allirm the identity of tlie above-cited specimens, and accordingly transfer the 

 species to the genus in wliich it properly belongs. 



PHAEANTHUS Hook. f. et Thorns. 



Phaeanthus ebracteolatus (Presl) comb. nov. 



IJvaria chractcolafa Presl Rel. Haenk. 2 (1835) 77. 



Uvaria tripetala Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 465, non Roxb. 



Unona tripetala Blanco 1. c. ed. 2 (1845) 324; ed. 3, 2: 236. 



Phaeanthus cumingii Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 2 (1859) 51; Vidal Phan. Cuming. 

 Philip. (1885) 93; Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 42; Ceron Cat. PI. Herb. (1892) 

 11; Merr. in Forest. Bur. Bull. 1 (1903) 20; Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) 

 Suppl. 54. 



Phaeanthus malabaricus Vid. Cat. PI. Prov. Manila (1880) 16; F.-Vill. Nov. 

 App. (1880) 7, non Bedd. 



Phaeanthus nutans F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 6, non Hook. f. et Thoms. 



A very common and widely distributed endemic species for which Presl's 

 specific name is here adopted, being the oldest valid one. In January, 1908, 

 1 had opportunity to examine Presl's type, preserved in the Prague Herbarium, 

 and consider it to be identical with Cuming's plant on which Miquel based his 

 Phacant hti s cumingii . 



MONIMIAOE^^]:. 



KIBARA Endl. 



Kibara mollis sp. nov. 



Omuibus partibus dense et molliter stramineo-fulvo-pilosis vel pubes- 

 centibiis; foliis ellipticis vel elliptico-ovatis, membranaceis, 12 ad 16 cm 

 longis, apice breviter acuminatis, nervis utrinque 5 vel 6 ; inflorescentiis 

 pnniciilatis vel racemoso-paniciilatis, paiicifloris, solitariis, axillaribus, 6 

 ad 10 cm longis, ramis patentibus, inferioribus ca. 3 cm longis; re- 

 ceptaculis elliptico-ovatis, chartaceis, extus dense pilosis; carpellis ca. 

 20, pubescentibus ; tepalis ovatis, glabris, acutis, ca. 0.5 mm longis. 



A shrub or small tree very densely and softly pilose or pubescent 

 throughout. Branches terete, slender. Leaves pale, elliptical or ellip- 

 tical-ovate, densely pilose on both surfaces, membranaceous, 12 to 16 cm 

 long, 4 to 8 cm wide, base acute, apex short-acuminate, the margins 

 al)0ve unequally undulate-denticulate ; nerves 5 or 6 on each side of the 

 midrib; petiole 1.5 to 2 cm long. Inflorescence axillary, solitary, panic- 

 ulate or racemose-paniculate, 6 to 10 cm long, densely pilose, the 

 branches spreading, the lower ones about 3 cm long, the upper gradually 

 shorter, each bearing 1 to 3 flowers. Flowers 3 to 4 mm long, their 

 pedicels 1 to 2 cm long, the receptacle elliptical-ovate, chartaceous, exter- 

 nally densely pilose ; carpels al)out 20, 2 mm long, pubescent; tepals ovate, 

 glabrous, acute, about 0.5 mm long. 



Luzon, Province of Rizal, Bosoboso, Bur. ^SVi. 1010 Ramos, July, 1906. 



A very characteristic species, readily recognizable by its soft, dense, rather 

 pale pubescence, which extends to all parts of the plant. 



