228 MERRILL. 



Arbor usque ad lo m alta; I'oliis elliptieo-ovatis ad ovato-lanceolatis, 

 acuminatis, 8 ad 15 cm longis, supra glabris vel subglabris, albido- 

 verruculosis, subtus dense pallide stellato-puberulis ; c}anis terminalibus, 

 densis; floribus eirciter 8 mm longis; fnictibus circitor 13 mm diametro, 

 caWcibus persistentibus vix inflatis. 



A tree reaching a height of 15 m. Leaves elliptic-ovate to ovate- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, 8 to 15 cm long, 3 to G cm wide, subeoriaceous, 

 subentire or the margins above obscurely undulate-crenate, the upper 

 surface glabrous or nearly so, rather densely white-verrucoso, beneath 

 paler and densely stellate-puberidejit ; nerves 5 to 7 on each side of the 

 midrib, distinct beneath, the reticulations dense ; petioles densely puber- 

 ulent, 5 to 7 mm long. C3'mes terminal, sometimes in the upper axils, in 

 anthesis rather dense, becoming rather diffuse in fruit, densely puberulent. 

 Flowers nearly 8 mm long and 10 mm in diameter. Calyx densely 

 puberulent, funnel-shaped, 5 mm long, equally 5-toothed, the teeth tri- 

 angular-ovate, 2 mm long. Corolla-tube for the lower 1 to 1.5 mm 

 cylindric, about 5 mm in diameter, then abruptly enlarged, the lobes 

 elliptic-ovate, obtuse, about 4 mm long, the throat villous inside. Fila- 

 ments about 8 mm long, slender, somewhat exserted. Fruit about 13 mm 

 long, 5 to n mm in diameter, the persistent calyx enclosing the drupe but 

 not inflated, densely pul)eniloiii with palc-bi'ownisli indumentum, the 

 drupe about 8 mm long. 



Luzon, Province of Batangas, Cuming 1^32 (type number), For. Bur. 11. ',6 

 Curran & Merritt, November, 1907, the latter growing in rather open hnisli hinds 

 at an altitude of about 50 m, locally known as malapamiit. 



As no description of the above species has ever been published, a short one 

 has been given above. Cuming's specimen was referred by Schauer to Tectona 

 hamiltoniana Wall., but Bentham & Hooker f. were undoubtedly right in specifi- 

 cally separating the Pliilippine plant from the Asiatic one. It is manifestly closely 

 allied to Wallich's species, but differs remarkably in the nature of the indumen- 

 tum, which in T. hamiltoniana Wall, is tomentose or stellately wooly, and in the 

 present species minutely and very densely puberulent. 



Cuming's plant has been localized from his own list of localities preserved 

 in his correspondence with Sir William Hooker at Kew, and is undoubtedly 

 correct. 



LABIATE. 



SALVIA Linn. 



Salvia scaphiformis lliirui' in .Journ. Bot. 23 (18S5) 3(58: Forbes & Ilemsl. 

 in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 26 (1890) 287. 



Luzon, Province of Nueva Vizcaya, Merrill ll^: Provinc<^ of Ahra. liur. Sci. 

 1206 Ramos: Province of Benguet, Elmer 5HS-'f, 8(131. 

 ' Not previously reported from the Philippines; Forniosji, and Szeclmcu, Cliiim. 



