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A glaljious tree al)Out 15 m liigli. Branches brownish, terete or 

 slightly compressed. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-ovate or obovate-elliptic, 

 about 20 cm long, 9 to 11 cm wide, the upper surface brown, shining, 

 the lower paler, dull, margins somewhat recurved, apex broad, rounded, 

 or broadl}' and obscurely blunt-acuminate, base cuneate, sometimes slightly 

 acuminate : nerves about 8 on each side of the midrib, prominent, the 

 nervules and reticulations obscure; petioles stout, 2 to 2.5 cm long; 

 sti])ules deciduous, ovate, acuminate, less than 5 mm long. Flowers 

 unknown. Infrutescence axillary, umbellate, the peduncle stout, about 5 

 mm long, the pedicels 1.5 to 3 cm long. Fruit yellow when fresh, 1.5 

 cm long, obovoid, trigonous and three-celled, or somewhat compressed and 

 two-celled, nearly 1.5 cm thick above the middle, the apex truncate or 

 refuse, the base acute. 



Luzox, Province of Zambales, near Santa C'rnz, altitude 100 m, For. Bur. 8232 

 Curran <G Merriit, December, 1907. 



A species apparently allied to Plectronia glabra (BInme) Kurz, but witli 

 diflferent fruits and leaves. 



TIMONIUSRumph. 



Timonius appendiculatus sp. nov. 



Arbor parva, circiter 8 m alta, glabra; foliis eoriaceis oblongis vel 

 anguste elliptico-oblongis, usque ad 10 cm longis, basi plus minus decur- 

 rento-acuminatis, apice acutis vel obtusis, nervis lateralibus obscuris; 

 cymis axillaribus, pauciramosis, foliis multo brevioribus; floribus 4-meris, 

 unilateraliter spicatis, lobis corollae recurvatis, 3-appendiculatis; drupis 

 globosis, obscure 12-sulcatis, polyp3a'enis. 



A small tree glabrous throughout. Branches reddish-brown or grayish, 

 terete, wrinkled when dry. Leaves coriaceous, oblong to narrowly ellip- 

 tic-oblong, rather pale when dr}', slightly shining, the apex acute or 

 blunt, the base somewdiat decurrent-acuminate, 6 to 10 cm long, 2 to 3 

 cm wide; lateral nerves few, obscure, and, with the reticulations, nearly 

 obsolete; petioles less than 1 cm long; stipules annular, truncate, very 

 short. Cymes in the upper axils, about 3 cm long, peduncled, with 

 usually but two branches, the flowers spicately arranged on one side of 

 the branches only, sessile, articulated with the rachis. Calyx cupular, 

 about 3 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, truncate. Corolla about 9 mm long, 

 tubular, the lobes 4, reflexed, narrowly ovate, acute, about 2 mm long, 

 and with three retrorse appendages near the apex, the two lateral ones 

 about 1 mm long, the terminal one shorter. Filaments short, inserted 

 at the throat or just below it; anthers linear, nearly 5 mm long, their 

 tips slightly exserted; style about 3 mm long. Fruit globose, shining, 

 obscurely about 12-sulcate, crowned by the truncate calyx, about 5 mm in 

 diameter, about 12-celled, and containing about 25 pyrenes. 



Luzon. Province of Rizal, Bosoboso, Bur. Sd. 216'i, 2651 Ramos, Januarj', May, 

 1907, tlie former with staminate flowers, tiie latter with fruit. Mindoro, Mount 

 Agong, For. Bur. HSGl Merritf. 



