NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VIII. 175 



A])parently sc-andeut. l^ranches terete, grayish, slightly striate, slightly 

 zigzag, the leaf-hearing hranchlets more or less densely pubescent with 

 short l)ro\viiish hairs, l.eaves oblong, 11 to 17 cm long, 4.5 to 6.5 cm 

 wide, chaitaceous, shining when dry, above entirely glal)rous, beneath 

 somewhat hirsute-pubescent with short hairs on tlie midrib and prinuiry 

 neives. the apex shortly and sharply acuminate or merely acute, the base 

 sagittate-cordate, the auricles broad, rounded, the sinus somewhat obtuse, 

 about 1 cm deep, the auricles somewhat surrounding the stems but free 

 from tliem ; basal nerves two or three pairs, the lower pair or pairs short, 

 the upper pair reaching to about the middle of the leaf, the primary 

 nerves above the basal ones 3 or 4 on each side of the midrib, anasto- 

 mosing, the reticulations lax; petioles pubescent, less than 5 mm long. 

 Inflorescence axillary, solitary, simply racemose, the rachis 1 to 1.5 cm 

 long, pubescent, the pedicels about 3 mm in length, each opposed by an 

 ovate-hniceolate, acuminate bract, the lower ones 6 mm long, the upper 

 gradually shorter. Flowers 4 cm long, the basal 4 mm ovoid, narrowed 

 and tubular above, the tube about 16 mm long, 2 to 2.5 mm in diameter, 

 the upper portion expanded, the lip pubescent, lanceolate, acuminate, 

 about 2 cm long, 3 mm wide. Column very obsciirely lobed. Anthers 

 6, 1 mm long. Fruit (immature) obovoid, 1.5 cm long. 



Babuyanes Islands, Dalupiri, Bu?-. ^ci. 10656 McGregor, August 20, 1900. 



A species manifestly allied to Arisfolochia tagala Cham., but at once distin- 

 guished by its differently shaped leaves, which are pubescent on the nerves beneatli, 

 very sliort petioles, dense racemes, and quite different flowers. 



CHENOPODIACE^. 



CHENOPODIUM Linn. 



Chenopodium polyspermum Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 220. 

 Luzon, Province of Benguet, Bagiiio, Leon Guerrero, March, 1910. 

 In waste places, apparently of recent introduction; a widely dispersed European 

 weed, introduced and now widely distributed in eastern North America. 



NYCTAGINACE^. 



PISONIA Linn. 



Pisonia gammillii sp. nov. 



Arbor glabra, infiorescentiis exceptis, circiter 10 m alta ; foliis oblongo- 

 ellipticis, in sicco chartaceis, nitidis, breviter acuminatis, basi inaequi- 

 lateralilms, acuminatis, usque ad 20 cm longis ; infiorescentiis laxis, ter- 

 minalibus axillaribusque : fioribus hermaphroditis ; staminibus 12 vel 13, 

 breviter exsertis. 



A glabrous tree, except the inflorescence, unarmed, about 10 m high, 

 the trunk 40 cm in diameter. Leaves mostly opposite, oblong-elliptic, 

 ample, 17 to 20 cm long, 8 to 10.5 cm wide, when dry chartaceous and 

 somewhat shining, apparently somewhat fleshy when fresh, entire, the 

 apex shortly acuminate, the base acuminate-decui-rent, iTiequilateral ; 



