NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VIII. 187 



An erect or scandent shrub or a tree. Leaves elliptic-oblong, coria- 

 ceous, glabrous, shining, about (5 cm long, 2.5 cm wide, abruptly narrowed 

 at both base and apex which are obtuse or rounded; nerves about 8 on 

 each side of the midrib, anastomosing, the reticulations rather close, 

 distinct on both surfaces. Racemes compound, about 8 cm long, slightly 

 pubescent, the jjedicels about 10 mm long, scattered along the rachis, each 

 subtended by a 1 mm long bracteole, and bearing- at about the middle 

 an additional bracteole subtending a sessile or shortly pedicelled bud. 

 Calyx-gland very prominent, 1.5 to 2 mm long. .Sepals 1.5 to 2 mm 

 long, obtuse. Petals 3 to 4 mm long, rounded. 



Luzox, Province of Zambales, ]'iihil 22'i.i in Herb. Kew. 



This form has as yet not been rediscovered in the Philippines, and is described 

 from the single specimen preserved in the Kew herbarium. It is well charac- 

 terized by its elliptic-oblong, glabrous, sinning, reticulate, blunt leaves, and by its 

 comparatively small flowers. 



2. Hiptage pubescens sp. nov. 



Arbor parva usque ad 5 m alta, ramulis, subtus foliis. inHorescentiisque 

 dense pallide adpresse sericeo-pubescentibus ; foliis coriaceis, elliptico- 

 oblongis A^el oblongo-lanceolatis, acuminatis, basi rotundatis vel acutis; 

 racemis axillaribus foliis subaequalilms vel longioribus: carpellis vix 1.5 

 cm- longis. 



A small tree -t to 5 m high (!J m according to Ivamos). Branches 

 brown or gray, terete, lenticellat^, glabrous, the young branchlets densely 

 and pale-silky-pubescent. Leaves opposite, coriaceous, elliptic-oblong to 

 oblong-lanceolate. 5 to 8 cm long, 1.5 to 2.5 cm wide, glabrous and 

 shining above, on tlie lower surface densely covered with pale, appressed, 

 silky hairs; the Imse rounded or sometimes somewhat acute, the apex 

 distinctly, often strongly and gradually acuminate ; nerves 7 or 8 on each 

 side of the midrib, not prominent, obscurely anastomosing, obscured on 

 the lower surface by the pubescence, but the hairs soinetimes rubbing 

 off, the veins then appearing brown in contrast to the pale surface of 

 the leaf; petioles 2 to 3 mm long, pubescent, liacemes axillary, solitary, 

 about as long as the leaves^ sometimes crowded in. the upper axils and 

 simulating a terminal inflorescence, many-flowered, densely silky-pubescent 

 with pale appressed haire, the pedicels 5 to T mm long. Flowers yellow 

 or red, about 1 cm in diameter when open. Sepals obtuse, the gland 

 prominent. Petals 5 to 6 mm long, obtuse, pubescent. Fruit of two 

 carpels, somewhat pubescent, the central wing of each carpel 10 to 12 

 mm long, about 5 mm wide, j*ounded or obtuse, the two lateral ones 

 similar but less than one-half as long, and truncate or rounded. 



Luzon, Province of Abra, Mount Paraga, Bur. Sci. 1251 Ramos, February, 

 1909 (type) : Lepanto-Bontoc, For. Bur. 11263 Klenime, February, 1908, altitude 

 about 1,200 m: Province of llocos Norte. ]\Iount Piao. For. Bvr. I.Wlf) Merritt rf 

 Darling, altitude about 1,000 m. 



This species is readily recognizable by its comparatively small leaves and small 



