NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VIII. 195 



inside. tStainens 4, the iilameiits about 4.5 mm long, Hatteiied, 1 mm 

 wide and of about tiie same width throughout, the anterior face at the 

 base of the anther bearded with long hairs ; anthers about 1 mm long, 

 the back and apex of the connective very densely bearded with numerous, 

 pale, rather stout, soft hairs about 4 mm long, the tips of the hairs 

 somewhat club-shaped. Disk prominent, truncate. Ovary conical, gla- 

 brous, strongly wi-inkled, tipped l)y the very short style. 



Basilan, HalUer s. n., January, 1904 (type). Mindanao, District of Zam- 

 boanga, Port Banga, For. Bur. 9176 Whitford <£• Hutchinson. December !), 1<)07, 

 in dipterocarp forests at an altitvide of about 20 m. 



A species in gross characters very similar to Uniiulra apicdlis Thwaites, of 

 Ceylon, but distinguislied at once by its truncate calyx. 



Urandra elliptica sp. nov. 



Arbor ghibra circiter 30 m alta; foliis coriaceis, ellipticis vel late 

 ellipticis, utrinque late rotundatis vel apice abrupte brevissime acumi- 

 natis, coriaceis, nitidis, circiter 10 em longis, nervis utrinque 4 vel 5; 

 fructibus globosis, 1.5 cm diametro. 



• A glabrous tree about 30 m high, the trunk 90 cm in diameter. Branches 

 terete, smooth, brown-olivaceous or reddish-brown. Leaves alternate, 

 coriaceous, shining and of about the same color on both surfaces, elliptic 

 or broadly elliptic, 8 to 11 cm long, 6 to 9 cm wide, equally and very 

 broadly rounded at both ends, or the apex very ahruptly and shortly 

 acuminate; nerves 4 or 5 on each side of the midrib, distant, curved- 

 ascending and faintly anastomosing, the reticulations lax, not prominent ; 

 petioles 1 to 1.5 cm long. Inflorescence (young) axillary, peduncled, 

 of three or four spicately arranged, short branches, each branch with 

 about 6 pairs of densely imbricated, distichous, broadly ovate, brown, 1 mm 

 long bracteoles. Flowers unknown. Fruit globose, yellow and somewhat 

 fleshy when fresh, about 1.5 cm in diameter, one or two developing from 

 each branch of the inflorescence, the rachis slightly elongated, thickened, 

 the peduncles of the fruits stout, 1 to 1.5 cm long. 



Luzon, Province of Bataan, Duale, For. Bur. 20003 Topocio, September 1-t, 

 1909, in semi-open flat country, altitude about 100 m. 

 Well cliaraeterized by its broatlly elliptic leaves. 



SABIACE^. 



MELIOSMA Blume. 



Meliosma reticulata sp. nov. 



i\,rbor parva, circiter 4 m alta, ramulis, foliolis ad nervos, petiolis, 

 paniculisque dense ferrugineo-villosis: foliis imparipinnatis, foliolis 5 

 ad 11, ellipticis vel oblongo-ellipticis, coriaceis, utrinque valde reticulatis, 

 apice rotundatis vel abrupte brevissime acuminatis, margine distanter 

 denticulatis, nervis utrinque 8 ad 10, prominentibus ; paniculis termina- 

 libus, foliis subaequalibus : florilius numerosis. subsessilil)us. 



