] 96 MERRILL. 



A small tree about 4 m liigli. Ultimate branches rather stout, dark- 

 brown, glabrous or nearly so, nearly 1 cm in diameter, the growing parts 

 smaller and densely ferruginous-villous. Leaves alternate, 40 cm long 

 or less, the petiole, rachis, petiolules, and midrib and nerves on both 

 surfaces of the leaflets densely ferruginous-villous; leaflets 5 to 11, 

 elliptic to oblong-elliptic, coriaceous, 6 to 11 cm long, 3 to 6.5 cm wide, 

 the l)asc broad, rounded, tlie apex also broad, rounded or very abruptly 

 and sliortly acuminate, the margins in the lowci' Jialf entire, above with 

 few, small, scattered teeth ; nerves 8 to 10 on each side of the midrib, 

 prominent, anastomosing, and with the rather lax primary reticulations 

 impressed on the upper surface, prominent beneath; petiolules 18 mm 

 long or less. Panicles terminal, as long as the leaves, the branches few, 

 tlie lower ones often 15 to 20 cm long, all parts densely ferruginous- 

 villous. Flowers white, subsessile, the bracteoles about 2 nmr long. 

 Calyx-segments 4 or 5, ovate to suborbicular, the outer ones smaller than 

 the inner and more or less feri-uginous-villous. Three larger petals 

 orbicula]', al)out 3 mm in diameter, the two smaller ones reduced to mere 

 scales less than 1 mm long and adnate to the fdaments. Fertile stamens 

 2, the filaments less than 1.3 mm long. 



Luzon, Province of Benguet, Losod, Bur. Sci. 559Jf Ramos, December, 1908. 

 I am inclined to refer here also For. Bur. 15803 Curran, from the Kuyapa District 

 in Benguet, but the specimen is with nearly mature fruit, and differs from the 

 type in being very much less pubescent, possibly due to development. The 

 fruits are narrowly obovoid, slighly compressed, and about G mm long. The 

 two specimens in other characters than the pubescence are very similar. 



The species is well characterized by its dense ferruginous pubescence which 

 extends even to the nerves on both sides of the leaflets, and by its very strongly 

 reticulate leaflets. 



VITACE^. 



LEE A Linn. 

 Leea quadrifida sp. nov. 



Arhuscula circiter 1 m alta; foliis pinnatis, foliolis circiter 10, oblongis, 

 acuminatis, nervis utrinque circiter 12, subtus glandulis numerosis, brun- 

 neis, parvis sed prominentibus, conspersis; cymis brevibus, floribus con- 

 gest] s, 4-meris. 



A slirub about 1 m high. Brandies brown, somewhat )mbescent. 

 Leaves alternate, sim])ly [jinnate, 40 to 50 cm long, the rachis prominently 

 longitudinally sulcate, the petiole not dilated at the base, when very 

 young brown-puberulent. Leaflets oblong, firmly chartaceous, 14 to 20 

 cm long, 5 to fi cm wide, tlie apex ratliei- prominently acuminate, the 

 base rounded, very slightly inequilateral, the margins obscurely and 

 distantly crcnulate or denticulate, tlie upper surface smooth, glabrous, 

 grayish and somewhat shining when dry, the lowei- surface brown, pubes- 

 cent or puberulent on the nerves and midrib, tlie whole surface with 

 numerous, small, elevated, brown glands distinctly visible to the naked 



