280 MERRILL. 



glabrous, both surfaces shining, the lower of about the same 

 color as, or a little paler than, the upper; lateral nerves about 



8, very prominent on the lov^er surface, curved-ascending, anas- 

 tomosing, the primary reticulations rather lax, prominent; pe- 

 tioles 5 to 10 mm long, prominently ciliate. Cymes axillary, 

 small, sessile or subsessile, dense, not longer than the petioles, 

 ciliate, many-flowered, the bracteoles lanceolate, 2 mm long or 

 less. Sepals oblong, obtuse, 2 mm long, outside densely pubes- 

 cent. Petals narrowly oblong-spatulate, the apex broad, retuse 

 or slightly cleft, the cleft less than 0.5 mm deep, the base nar- 

 rowed. Filaments about 2 mm long; anthers 1 mm long. Ovary 

 pubescent. Fruit broadly ellipsoid, more or less compressed, 

 densely gray-pubescent, about 1.5 cm long, divided longitudinally 

 by deep lateral grooves and slightly retuse at the apex, 2-celled. 



Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Port Banga, For. Bur. 9293 (type), 

 929Jt, 923i Whitford & Hutchinson, December, 1907 and January, 1908, 

 Bur. Sci. 11819 Robinson, July, 1910, in forests at low altitudes. 



A species well caracterized by its prominently ciliate branchlets, in- 

 florescence, and leaves, the latter glabrous except for the ciliate midrib 

 and lateral nerves on both surfaces and usually also the margins. 



DICHAPETALUM ROBINSONII sp. nov. 



Arbor parva, circiter 8 m alta, subtus foliis ramulis inflores- 

 centiisque dense sericeo-villosis ; foliis subcoriaceis, late ellipticis 

 vel ovato-ellipticis, usque ad 15 cm longis, supra nitidis, parce 

 pubescens, basi rotundatis, apice acutis, nervis utrinque circiter 



9, prominentibus ; petiolo crasso, circiter 4 mm longo; inflores- 

 centiis in axillis superioribus vel subterminalibus, breviter pe- 

 dunculatis, floribus congestis ; f ructibus obovoideis, dense breviter 

 fulvo-villosis. 



A small tree, reaching a height of 8 m, the branches terete, 

 reddish-brown, somewhat pubescent, the younger branchlets 

 densely covered with short, villous, fulvous hairs, as are the 

 petioles, inflorescence, and lower surfaces of the leaves. Leaves 

 subcoriaceous, broadly elliptic to ovate-elliptic, 10 to 14 cm long, 

 6 to 8 cm wide, the upper surface brownish-olivaceous when 

 dry, shining, sparingly pubescent, the hairs more numerous on 

 the midrib and nerves, the lower surface densely fulvous-pubes- 

 cent with short hairs; petioles about 4 mm long; lateral nerves 

 about 9, prominent, the primary reticulations rather lax, distinct. 

 Inflorescence in the upper axils and subterminal, shortly pe- 

 duncled, up to 4 cm long, all parts fulvous-villous, the bracteoles 

 linear, 1 to 1.5 mm long. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute or 

 somewhat acuminate, about 2 mm long, externally densely pubes- 



