264 MERRILL. 



each side of the midrib^ proiuinciit beneath, anastoinosiug, the retic- 

 ulations lax; petioles 5 to 10 mm long. Stipules deciduous, mem- 

 branaceous, usually lanceolate, acuminate, 5 mm long or less, somewhat 

 appressed-pubescent on the back, the margins below j)rominently pectinate, 

 the tips of the teeth glandular. Spikes as long as the leaves or some- 

 times shorter, about 2.5 cm in diameter, densely many-flowered, the 

 rachis somewhat pubescent, the bracteoles linear, pubescent, 1.5 mm long. 

 Flowers white, sessile. Calyx-tube short, adnate to the ovary, pale- 

 stellate-pubescent outside, the limb splitting irregularly into two or 

 three ovate, acute or acuminate lobes, 4 to 5 mm long, membranaceous, 

 somewhat reticulate-veined, stellate-pubescent outside, finally circumscis- 

 sile and deciduous. Petals 5, about '2 em long, 1.8 to 2 mm wide, tlie basal 

 3 mm strongly auricled, including the auricles 3 mm wide, narrowed 

 above the auricles to 1 mm, incurved, and tlien linear-elongate, mem- 

 branous, nerved, about 2 mm wide, acuminate. Staminodes none, unless 

 represented by the auricles to the petals. Stamens 5, alternate with the 

 petals, and inserted with them ; filaments adnate to the corolla and falling 

 with it, stout, about 1 mm long; anthers ovoid, about 1 mm long, the 

 cells opening laterally each by two valves, the connective produced as a 

 straight, 2 mm long, awn. Ovary inferior, 2-celled, each cell with a 

 single pendulous ovule, the top of the ovary pubescent; styles 2, less 

 than 1 mm long, slender ; stigmas minute. Fruit unknown. 



Palawan, Victoria Peak, Bur. Sci. 739 Foxioorthy, ]\Iarcli 24, 190G. A spread- 

 ing tree about 10 m high, with a trunk 15 to 20 cm in diameter growing on the 

 river bank at an altitude of about 250 m above the sea. 



The genus above proposed is allied to Maingaya Oliver, of Penaiig and Perak, 

 and to Loropetalum R. Br., of India and China, differing from both in its spicate 

 infioresence, and in the strongly auriculate bases of the petals, from the former 

 also in its different calyx and absence of staminodes, and from the latter also 

 in its 4-merous flowers. It is apparently more closely allied to Maitujaya than 

 to Loropetalum, but seems to be distinct from both, and from all other hitherto 

 descrilied genera. But one genus of the family, Sycojisis, was previously known 

 from the Philippines. 



ROSACEA! 



PARINARIUM Aubl. 



Parinarium curranii num. nov. 



J'dr'nutrium roconosnm jNferr. in Govt. Lab. I'uhl. il'hilip.) 17 il!i()4l 19; 

 non Vidal Cat. PI. Prov. Manila j( 1880) 29. 



Masbatk, Merrill 2(11.'/, May, 1903 (type). Lrzox, I'loviiioo of Albay, For. 

 Bur. 10515 Ciirran, June, 1908. 



The original name of this spocifs is invalidated by 1'atinnriuiu racemosum 

 Vidal, and accordingly I lie above new name is proposed fof it. Xidal's species 

 ia not enniiifratctl in Imlcx Kcwciisis. 



