NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VHI. 177 



or oblong-obovate, thick, 10 mm long, 6 mm wide, broad and rounded at 

 the apex, the margins glabrous, the inner three similar but smaller, 8 

 mm long or less. Stamens many, united into a rather dense, depressed- 

 globose head, the connectives very broad, the anthers 0.8 mm long. 



Luzon, Province of Benguet, Pauai, Bur. Set. 8498 McGregor, June, 1909, alti- 

 tude about 2,100 m. 



A species allied to Kadsura philippinensis Elmer, differing especially in its 

 terminal, comparatively short-pedicelled flowers and other minor characters. 



Kadsura macgregorii sp. nov. 



Species praecedenti simillima et ut videtur valde afiinis, sed differt 

 floribus masculinis axillaribus, breviter pedicellatis, pedicellis basi bract- 

 eolis imbricatis praeditis. 



Scandent, glabrous, the branches dark-colored, lenticellate. Leaves 

 similar in shape and size to those of the preceding species, membran- 

 aceous, rather densely and minutely glandular-punctate, the margins in 

 the upper half with scattered, small teeth. Staminate flowers solitary, 

 in the axils of leaves or of fallen leaves, their pedicels about 5 mm long, 

 each subtended by several, densely imbricated, brown bracteoles about 1 

 mm long and longer than wide, and with a similar one at about the 

 middle of the pedicel. Sepals about 5, orbicular or broadly orbicular- 

 ovate, minutely and densely glandular-punctate, rounded, the outer one 

 about 2 mm long, the inner gradually larger, the innermost about 8 mm 

 long, their margins minutely ciliate. Petals about 5, somewhat larger 

 than the inner sepals, distinctly and densely glandular-punctate. Sta- 

 mens united in a globose mass, the connectives very broad. 



Luzon, Province of Benguet, Pauai, Bur. Sci. 8340, McGregor, June, 1909, 

 altitude about 2,100 m. 



A species in general appearance quite similar to Kadsura pauddentieulata , 

 but at once distinguished by its axillary, short-pedicelled staminate flowers, and 

 by its pedicels subtended by several, small, imbricated bracts. It is apparently 

 more closely allied to Kadsura philippinensis Elmer, than is the preceding 

 species, judging from the attachment of the flowers, but its short-pedicelled 

 flowers and denticulate leaves are sufficient to distinguish the two species. 



SAXIFRAGACE^. 



CURRANIODENDRON gen. nov. 



Genus Dedeae Baill. valde affine, sed differt floribus 4-meris, ovulis 

 numerosis, usque ad 16. 



Curraniodendron dedeaeoides sp. nov. 



Arbuscula glabra, dioica, 2 ad 3 m alta, ramulis foliisque junioribus 

 plus minus resinosis ; f oliis alternis, oblongis vel oblongo-ellipticis, leviter 

 aeuminatis, chartaceis vel subcoriaceis, nitidis, subtus plus minus nigro- 

 glandulosis; racemis axillaribus, solitariis, floribus femineis parvis, 4- 

 meris. 



