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description in Latin, taken entirely from Blanco's original description, and states 

 that he had seen no specimens. An examination of Blanco's description shows 

 that it applies unmistakably to Kosteletzkya, and F.-Villar was quite correct in 

 making the transfer to the latter genus. On studying the above specimens, I 

 found that thej' agreed with none of the descriptions of the various species of 

 Kosteletzkya, other than Blanco's but thinking that the species might be an 

 introduced one here, I sent specimens to Kew for comparison, and received the 

 following communication: ''The specimen of Kosteletzkya batacensis does not 

 match any of the species in the Kew Herbarium, from America or elsewhere, 

 and in view of the wide distribution of the genus, America, Mediterranean region. 

 Tropical Africa and INiadagascar, the existence of an endemic Philippine species 

 is not theoretically improbable." Blanco's type was from the town of Batac, Prov- 

 ince of llocos Norte, Luzon, and the species is probably endemic in the Pliilip- 

 pines. 



STERCULIACE.^. 



LEPTONYCHIA Turcz. 



Leptonychia banahaensis (Elmer) comb. nov. 



Grewia banahaensis Elmer Leafl. Philip. Bot. 1 (1908) 319. 



Arbuscula glabra vel subglabra, circiter 3 in alta; foliis alternis, 

 glabris vel subglabris, lanceolatis vel oblongo-lanceolatis, 7 ad 13 cm 

 longis, nitidis, membranaeeis vel submembranaceis, apice caudato-acu- 

 minatis, basi obtusis vel subrotundatis, minute glanduloso-punctatis, 

 subtus in axillis glandulosis; nervis utrinque 5, ascendentibiis, prominen- 

 tibus ; floribus axillaribus, solitariis, pedicellatis ; petalis orbicularibus 

 vel ovato-orbicularibus, pubescentibus. circiter 2 mm longis, liberis; 

 staminibus 10, 5-adelphis, basi in annulo connatis; staminoideis ex- 

 terioribus niillis, interioribus 5, brevibus, phalangibus alternantibus ; 

 ovario 3-locnlare ; f ructibus ovoideis vel obovoideis, glabris, rngosis, 3- vel 

 abortu 2- vel 1-locularibiis, loculicide dehiscentibus, loculis 1-spermis; 

 seminibus ovoideis, glabris, leviter compressis, nitidis, circiter 1.3 cm 

 longis, arillatis. 



LtjZOX, Province of Tayabas, Lucban, Elmer T569, IMay, 1906, type number: 

 Province of Laguna, Santa Maria Mavitac, For. Bur. 10069 Gurran, February, 

 1908; Mabalucbaluc Pass, Bur. Sci. 6044 Robinson, March, 1908. 



The first representative of the gerfus to be found in the Philippines, and 

 erroneously described bj^ Mr. Elmer as a Grewia, of the Tilaceae. The species 

 strongly resembles the Malayan Leptonychia heterocUta (Roxb.) Kurz., but diflfers 

 in the total absence of the external row of staminodes. 



• GUTTIFER.^. 



CALOPHYLLUM Linn. 



Calophyllum auriculatum sp. nov. § Apetalum. 



Arbor circiter 20 m alta, glabra, gemmis ferriigineo-puberulis exceptis, 

 ramis teretibus, griseis, ramulis crassiusculis, in sicco valde angulatis siil- 

 catisqne ; foliis snbsessilibus vel breviter petiolatis, coriaceis, nitidis, 

 oblongo-ellipticis vel oblongo-obovatis, apice obtusis vel rotundatis, rariter 

 subacutis, basi distincte auriculatis. Inflorescentiis axillaribus, solitariis 



