328 .MKKKILL. 



A very eliaraetoiistic species, differing from typical Tiiitoniiis in its appendaged 

 corolla -lobes, but in other characters typical, readily recognized by the above 

 character, its few-branched cymes, 4-merous, sessile flowers in unilateral spikes, 

 and its nearly nerveless leaves. 



XANTHOPHYTUM Kcinw. 



Xanthophytum fruticulosum Kciinv. ex 151uiiic liidjr. (1820) 830; Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. 2 (1857) 175. 



Metabolus ferrugineus DC. Prodr. 4 (1830) 43(5. 



Sclerococcvs Bartl. 1. c, as syn. 



Xanthophytum villarii Vidal Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1880) 150. 



Lasianthits pilosiis F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 112, non Wight. 



Luzon, without locality, Ilaenke in Herb. Prague, type of Metabolus ferru- 

 gineus DC. ; Province of Rizal, San Mateo, Vidal 392, in Herb. Kew, type of 

 A'. riUarii Vidal. 



] liave examined both of the above specimens, and can see no reason for 

 distinguishing one from the other, or either from Reinwardt's species. Vidal's 

 specimen has smaller leaves than Haenke's, but in all essential characters they 

 appear to be the same, and after a cursory examination of Javan specimens and 

 a careful comparison of tlie Philippine material with the descriptions of A'. 

 fruticulosum I do not hesitate to reduce both DeCandolle's and Vidal's species 

 to Reinwardt's. Miquel 1. c, had already reduced Metabolus ferrugineus to 

 Xanthophytum fruticulosum, without however giving the range of the species as 

 extending to the Philippines. An interesting species known only from Java, 

 Borneo, and Luzon. 



CAPRIFOLIACE^. 



VIBURNUM Linn. 



Viburnum floribundum sp. nov. § Euviburnum, Opulus. 



Fnitox circitt'r '3 in alta^ subglabra vel parce piibesconli ; foliis ovalis, 

 usque ad 7 cm longi?, chartaceis, nitidis, supra glabris, sul)tus in axillis 

 barbatis, apice acutis vol ncuminatis, basi inequilateraliter rotundatis, 

 margine serrato-dentatis, nervis utrinque 5, promineutibus; cymis tenni- 

 nalibus, umbellato-paniculatis, dense multifloris; corolla rotata. 



A slirnb about 2 m higli. Brancbes and brancblets terete, grayisii- or 

 I'eddisb-brown, rather stout, glabrous, the brancblets minutely puberulent 

 and with few scattered long hairs. Leaves ovate, 4 to 7 cm long, 2 to 4 

 cm wide, chartaceous, shining on both surfaces, the ape.x acute or acumi- 

 nate, the base somewhat narrowed, rounded, inequilateral, the margins 

 especially in the uppei' half, rather strongly serrate-dentate, the upper 

 surface glabrous, or the midrib sometimes slightly puberulent, the lower 

 surface glabrous except the midrib and pi'imary nerves which are often 

 slightly pubescent, and the axils of the priiii;iiy neivcs which arc hai-hate; 

 nerves 5 on each side of the midrib, ascending, very jirominent, the 

 reticulations distinct; petioles about 5 mm long, soinewhni pnbeFccMit. 

 Inflorescence terminal, panicnlate-unibell;iti'. iiiicnnixcil ti(<|uiiiily with 

 sinall leave-;. I'iitber dense. T) to 7 cm in il iniiietei'. xcrv inaiiv ll()were(l. 



