NEW UR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VI. 233 



A small tree, the branches terete, reddish-brown, glabrous. Leaves 

 elliptical, snbmembranaceous, 6 to 11 cm long, 3 to 6 cm wide, the apex 

 broad, rounded, the base acute, shining above, paler beneath, glabrous; 

 nerves about 10 on each side of the midrib, not prominent; petioles 5 

 mm long or less; stipules -7 mm long, lanceolate, acuminate, -two-keeled, 

 puberulent on the keels. Flowers axillary, solitaiy or in pairs, their 

 pedicels 2 mm long. Calyx lobes 1.2 mm long, ovate, acuminate. 

 Petals oblong, obtuse, 3.5 mm long, 1..5 mm wide, the ligule nearly one- 

 half as long as the petal. Staminal tube 1.5 mm long, the stamens 10, 

 the filaments unequal, about 1.5 mm long; anthers 0.4 mm long. Ovary 

 glabrous, the style about 3 mm long, cleft into three parts above (short 

 styled flowers not seen). Fruit oblong, 8 mm long, 4.5 mm wide. 



Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Port Banga, Fur. Bur. 9285 Whiiford d 

 Jlutchinson, January 2, 1908, growing along the margins of mangrove swamps. 

 The second species of tlie family for the Philippines. 



RUTACE^. 



LUVUNGA Ham. 



Luvunga philippinensis sp. nov. 



Scandens, inermis; foliolis oblongis vel oblongo-ellipticis, subcoriaceis, 

 usque ad 25 cm longis, 10 cm latis ; fioribus in cymis racemosis paucifioris 

 lateralibus dispositis ; calycibus cupulatis, truncatis ; petalis 3 vel 4, 

 oblongis, ca. 1 cm longis, ovario 4-loculare. 



A scandent shrub without spines, glabrous throughout, the branches 

 gray or brownish. Petioles terete, 9 to 13 cm long, greenish; leaflets 

 3, their petiolules stout, 5 mm long or less, 15 to 25 cm long, 6 to 10 

 cm wide, subcoriaceous, shining, paler beneath, oblong to oblong-elliptical, 

 tlie apex acuminate, the acumen blunt or retuse, base acute, margins 

 entire; nerves 8 to 10 on each side of the midrib, irregular, somewhat 

 prominent beneath, anastomosing. Inflorescence of small, usually 3- 

 flowered, racemose cymes, Ijorne on the branches below the leaves or in 

 the leaf-axils, 1.5 cm long or less; pedicels 4 to 5 mm long. Flow^ers 

 white, fragrant. Calyx cup-shaped, about 4 mm in diameter, truncate 

 or very obscurely 5-toothed, its stipe 2 mm long. Petals 3 or 4, oblong, 

 obtuse, imbricate, 9 to 10 mm long, 3.5 to 4.5 mm wide. Stamens 

 10, free; filaments stout, swollen, about 6 mm long; anthers erect, oblong, 

 3 mm long. Ovary oblong, 4-celled, quadrangular in cross section, 

 about 3 mm long, 1.2 mm thick, scarcely narrowed into the stout style 

 which is about as long as the ovary; stigma capitate. Fruit unknown. 



Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Port Banga, For. Bur. OlOJ/, OMI Whitford 

 d Hutchinson, December, 1907, in forests 30 to 40 m above sea level. The first 

 re])resentativo of tlie genus to lie found in the Pliilipi)inos. 



