NEW OK NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VIL .323 



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Luzon, Province of Benguet, Mount Tonglon, Mearns s. u., December, 190G; 



Mount Ugo, For. Bur. 15920 Bacani, Bur. 8ci. 572~ Ramos, December, 1908. 



A species allied to Strohilanthes pluriformis Clarke, but distinguished from 

 that and all other known Philippine forms in being strongly hirsute in all 

 parts. 



RUBIACE^. 



COPTOSAPELTA Korth. 



C. flavescens Korth. Ned. Kruid. Arch. 2 (1851) 113; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 2 

 (1857^ 155; Hook. f. El. Brit. Ind. 3 (1880) 35; King & Gamble in Journ. As. 

 Sue. Beng. 72= (1903) 138. 



Randia olaciformis Meiv. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 3 (1908) Bot. 163. 



^lindanao. Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens 1220. 



Randia olaciformis Merr. must be reduced to Coptosa'pelta flavescens Korth.. 

 a species extending from Burma to the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, and 

 Borneo, and the first representative of the genus to be found in the Philippines. 

 Hooker f. gives Wehera macrophylla Roxb. as a synonym of the above, which, if 

 correctly reduced, would be the earliest specific name for the species. Roxburgli's 

 description, however, does not seem to me to apply to Coptosapelta flavescens 

 Korth. 



DAMN ACANTHUS Gaertn. 



Damnacanthus indicus Gaertn. f. Eruct. 3 (1805) 18, t. 182; DC. Prodr. 4 

 (18,30) 473; Hook. f. El. Brit. Ind. 3 (1880) 158; Forbes & Hemsl. in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. Bot. 23 (1888) 386. 



Luzon, Province of Laguna, Mount Banajao, For. Bur. 7S56 Curran d Merritt, 

 November, 1907, Bur. Sci. 2432 Foxicorthy, March, 1907, altitude 1,400-2,000 m. 



The first representative of the genus for the Philippines, an interesting 

 addition to the continental element in the Philippine flora; eastern Himalayan 

 region to southern China and Japan. 



GREEN EA Wight & Arnott. 



Greenea longiflora sp. nov. 



Arbor parva, circiter 8 in alta, ramulis petiolis f oliis cymisque hirsutis ; 

 foliis oblongo-ellipticis, papj^raceis, 20 ad 30 cm longis, apice aciitis vel 

 obscure acumiiiatis, nervis utrinque circiter 15; cymis axillaribus, subscor- 

 poideis, paiiciramosis, usque ad 9 cm longis; floribus sessilibus, circiter 

 15 cm longis, -l-meris. 



A small tree about 8 m high. Branches densely hirsute Avith long 

 I)rownish hairs. Leaves papyraceous, oblong-elliptic, 20 to 30 cm long, 

 10 to 12 cm wide, very sligthly shining, the lower surface somewhat paler 

 than the upper, both surfaces with numerous spreading or appressed 

 scattered bairs, those on the lower surface softer and paler than those 

 on the upper; nerves about 15 on each side of the midrib, distinct, the 

 reticulations rather lax ; petioles densely hirsute, 2 to 4 cm long ; stipules 

 membranaceous, caducous, oblong, about 4 cm long and 1.5 cm wide, 

 rounded or obtuse at the apex, hirsute. Cymes axillary, peduncled, 9 

 cm long or less, hirsute, the branches few. Flowers sessile, arranged 



