256 MERRILL. 



A species closely allied to Jthododendrun lussoniense Rendle, differing somewlial 

 in the shape of the leaves, shorter corolla-tube and lobes and different color of 

 the flowers. Rendle speaks of the flowers of R. luHsoniense as having been pink 

 or tinged with pink, but Whitehead's note on tlie type in the Herbarium of the 

 British Museum says '"flowers pure white." 



Rhododendron mal indangense sj). nov. 



Arbor parva, ramis glabris, griseis, ramulis junioribus brunneis, pu- 

 Ijenilis; foliis coriaceis, pallidis, oblongo-ovatis, apice rotimdatis vel evnar- 

 ginatis, basi cuneatis, iitrinque squamnlis glanclulosis paucis notatis; 

 bracteis ovatis^, coriaceis, acutis, margine breviter ciliato excepto glabris; 

 floribiis solitariis, 2 cm longis, tubo cylindraceo ; ptaminibus 10, inaeqiia- 

 libus, glabris; ovario 5-locailare, dense lepidoto. 



A small tree about 7 m bigh. tlie 1)ranches terete, grayish, glabrous, 

 the younger branehlets reddish-brown, puberulent. Leaves coriaceous, 

 pale, oblong-ovate, the apex rounded or emarginate, the base cuneatc, 

 alternate or subverticillately arranged at the apices of the branehlets, 

 glabrous except for the few scattered glandular scales on both surfaces, 

 1.5 to 3 cm long, 7 to 10 mm wide; nerves nearly obsolete; petioles 2 to 

 3 mm long. Bracts ovate, brown, rather thin, fJ mm long or less. 

 Flowers red, solitary, few, the pedicels slender, 6 to 7 mm long, pu- 

 Ijerulent or pubescent. Calyx a small disk al)0ut 1.5 mm in diameter. 

 Corolla 2 cm long, 4 to 5 mm in diameter, cylindrical, slightly lepidote, 

 the lobes 5, ovate, rounded, 5 to 6 mm long, 4 to 5 mm wide, somewhat 

 spreading. Stamens 10, unequal; filaments glabrous; anthers 1.4 mm 

 long. Ovary oblong, 5-celled, about 3.5 mm long, densely lepidote; 

 style glabrous, about 18 mm long. 



Mindanao, Province of Misamis, Mount Malindang, For. Bur. .'/lOr) Mcarn^ d 

 Hutchinson, May, 1906. Common in forests at about 1,800 ni. alt. 



SAPOTACEzTl 



PALAQUIUM Blanco. 



Palaquium retusum sj). nov. 



Arbor ca. 10 m alta; foliis anguste ol)longo-obovatis vel ol)lanceolatis, 

 coriaceis, glabris, 20 ad 35 cm longis, 7 ad 12 cm latis, apice rolundalis, 

 retusis, basi longe sensim angustatis; nervis utrinque 13, prominentibus, 

 ascendcntibuR ; stipulis oblongo-ovatis, coriaceis, 1 ad 1.5 cm longis, 

 persistentibus ; floribus pedicellatis, dense ferrugineo-pubescentibus; 

 ovario 9- vel 10-loculare. 



A tree about 10 m bigli. liranches thickened, nigose, glabrous. 

 Leaves crowded at the apices of the branches, narrowly oblong-obovalc or 

 oblanceolatc, 20 to 35 cm long. 7 to 1? cm wi(l(\ n])ox broad, rounded, 

 retuse, gradually narrowed from the uj)1k r third to llio acute base, coria- 



