246 ' . MERRILL. 



lent^ 2 to 3 nun long. Flowers axillar}', solitarv, or two on a more or 

 less elongated peduncle, the peduncle, when present, 12 mm long or less, 

 pubernlent, with 2, opposite, lanceolate-acuminate, puberulcnt, 3 mm 

 long bracts at the apex, subtending two flowers. Flowers sessile or 

 shortly pedicelled. Calyx pubernlent, the tube funnel-shaped, about 2 

 mm long, the lobes more or less spreading, 5, ovate-oblong, acuminate, 

 2.5 mm long. Corolla-tube 3 mm long, villous within, the lobes oblong, 

 3 to 3.5 mm long, acute or acuminate, recurved or spreading. Anthers 

 2.5 mm long, scarcely exserted. Style 2 mm long, glabrous; stigma 

 cleft, 2.5 to 3 mm long, densely villous. Frait red, soft and fleshy, 

 apparently globose or ovoid and alwut 1 em in diameter, the seeds 

 numerous, ovoid, about 3 mm long. 



Luzox, Province of Bnlaoan, Noizagaray, on rocky river banks, For. Jiur. 1170 

 Curran, June 10, 1!)07. 



A species well cliaracterized by its very narrow leaves and small, axillary, 

 solitary or paired flowers, which may be sessile, or pedunculate; probably most 

 closely allied to Randla (Dif/atcnfiis F.-Vill., l)ut quite different from that species. 



TIMONIUS D( . 



Timonius macrophyllus sp. nov. 



Arbor circiter 10 m alta, partibus junioribus, subtus foliis, ramulis 

 inflorescentiisque plus minus fulvo-hirsuto-villosis; foliis coriaceis, ob- 

 ovatis, usque ad 23 cm longis, apice rotundatis, basi acutis, nervis utrinque 

 8 vel 9, prominentibus; inflorescentiis brevibus, dense pubescentil)us, 

 floribus 4-meris, secundis, spicatis; fiaictibus subovoideis, circiter .7 mm 

 longis, leviter longitudinaliter 4-sulcatis, pyrenis 25 ad 30. 



A tree about 10 m higb. Brandies light-gray, subterete, rather slout, 

 apical portions more or less compressed and pubescent. Leaves obovate, 

 17 to 23 cm long, 12 to 14 cm wide, the apex rounded, the base acute, 

 coriaceous, brown and shining when dry, glabrous on the upper sui'face, 

 beneath sparingly hirsute-villous, especially on the midrib and lateral 

 nerves; nerves 8 or 9 on each side of the midrib, prominent, curved- 

 anastomosing, the primary reticulations curved, subparallel, prominent; 

 petioles stout, about 1 cm long. Inflorescence in the \i|»i>er axils, at 

 most 7 em long, consisting of two or three branches 2 to 3 cm in length 

 or less, densely fulvous-villous, the branches l)earing numerous, crowded, 

 sessile flowers along one side. Flowers 4-nierous, cylindric. Calyx 3 

 mm long, the rim produced about 1.5 mm above the ovary, truncate, 

 densely fulvous-villous outside. Corolla (in bud) 3.5 mm long, the four 

 lobes oblong, obtuse, 3 mm long, .\nthcis 1, alternaling with the corolla- 

 lobes, 3 nmi long. Style 4-angled, cU>ft into foui' arms about 2 mm in 

 length, each arm again minutely cleft at the apex. ()vary 4-celled. each 

 cell with from 5 to 7, rarely more locelli. Fruit subovoid, about 7 mm 

 long, fi mm in diameter, slightly liairy, with foui- ifimided angles and 



