PHILIPPINE PLANTS, IX. 267 



subcoriaceous, shining, green and of about the same color on 

 both surfaces, 10 to 18 cm long, 4 to 8 cm wide ; lateral nerves 8 

 to 10 on each side of the midrib, prominent, curved upward, 

 anastomising, the reticulations lax; petioles 7 to 10 mm long. 

 Flowers perfect, yellow and purple, extra-axillary or leaf-opposed, 

 solitary, or at least but one flower opening at a time, the short 

 rachis, the bracts, and the calyx externally densely ferruginous- 

 pubescent. Sepals broadly ovate, acute or slightly acuminate, 

 about 6 mm long. Outer three petals oblong, acute or somewhat 

 obtuse, about 2 cm long, 8 mm wide, externally somewhat ap- 

 pressed-pubescent with brown hairs, inside glabrous, the inner 

 three petals about 14 mm long, vaulted, conniving, their claws 

 slender, glabrous, about 9 mm long, their limbs a'bout 5 mm long, 

 subrhombic, but when spread much wider than long, the inner 

 surface very densely ciliate-villous with long, dark-brown hairs. 

 Stamens indefinite, narrowly oblong, 1 to 1.2 mm long, their 

 connectives truncate, overlapping. Ovaries 12 to 15, glabrous, 

 1 to 1.2 mm long, oblong; ovules about 12, 2-seriate; styles 

 clavate-oblong. Fruits unknown. 



BusuANGA (Calamianes Islands), C. M. Weber 1550bis, February 25, 

 1911, in forests, limestone region, altitude about 30 meters. 



Apparently a very characteristic species, distinguishable by the inner 

 faces of the limbs of the interior petals being very densely ciliate-villous 

 with long, dark-brown hairs, and by its outer petals being quite glabrous 

 inside. 



OXYMITRA Hook. f. & Thoms. 



OXYMITRA PUBESCENS sp. nov. 



Frutex scandens omnibus partibus plus minusve ferrugineo- 

 pilosis, ramulis densissime pilosis; foliis oblongis vel anguste 

 oblongo-obovatis, abrupte brevissime acuminatis, basi leviter 

 cordatis, subcoriaceis vel chartaceis, usque ad 24 cm longis, nervis 

 utrinque circiter 10, distantibus, distinctis; petiolo crasso, vix 

 6 mm longo; floribus ignotis; fructibus ovoideis vel ellipsoideis, 

 circiter 8 cm longis, aurantiacis, ferrugineo-pilosis. 



A scandent shrub, all parts more or less ferruginous-pilose, 

 the branchlets very densely so, the older branches bearly black, 

 lenticellate, becoming glabrous. Leaves subcoriaceous or firmly 

 chartaceous, oblong or narrowly oblong-ovate, 14 to 24 cm long, 

 5.5 to 8.5 cm wide, usually widest above the middle, the apex 

 shortly and abruptly acuminate, below usually more or less nar- 

 rowed, the base rounded, somewhat cordate, both surfaces more 

 or less pilose with ferrugenous hairs, the upper surface in age 

 becoming more or less glabrous, the lower surface slightly paler, 



