292 MERRILL. 



narrowed above into the short narrowly conical style, the disk 

 cylindric, prominent. Fruit unknown. 



LuBANG Island, Merrill 977, April 8, 1903, a shrub about 3 m high 

 sprawling or climbing in thickets near sea-level. Cebu, Bur. Sci. 11095 

 Rarnos^ March, 1912, in thickets. 



This apparently undescribed species seems to be allied to Salacia perak- 

 ensis King, and to S. griffithii Laws., but is entirely different from both. 

 Mature fruits have not been seen, but they were sufficiently developed to 

 show that the plant is a Salacia and not a Hippocratea. 



ICACINACEAE. 



FREERIA gen. nov. 



Flores dioici, spicati. Perianthium 4-merum, simplex, lobi 



valvati, tubo brevi. Fl. s Fl. $ : Ovarium sessile, 1-locul- 



are; stigma sessile, crassum, truncatum; ovula 2, ex apice 

 loculi pendula. Drupa oblonga leviter compressa, epicarpio 

 carnoso, putamine crustaceo extus punctato, intus papillato. 

 Semen pendulum; embryo albumine carnoso valde ruminato 

 parum brevior, cotyledonibus planis, tenuiter foliaceis. Frutex 

 alte scandens, ramis ramulisque tenuibus. Folia alterna, oblonga 

 vel oblongo-lanceolota, glabra, repanda, glanduloso-dentata, acu- 

 minata, basi leviter cordata. Racemi supra-axillares, simplices. 

 Flores pauci, parvi, sessiles, bracteolati. 



FREERIA REPANDA sp. nov. 



Frutex scandens subglaber, ramulis teretibus, tenuibus, minut- 

 issime verruculosis ; foliis oblongis vel oblongo-lanceolatis, sub- 

 coriaceis, usque ad 14 cm longis, in siccitate pallidis, nitidis, 

 subtus leviter asperulis, nervis utrinque 5 vel 6, prominentibus, 

 distantibus, anastomosantibus, reticulis laxis, distinctis; spicis 

 2 ad 4 cm longis, pedunculatis, tenuibus ; floribus paucis, circiter 

 2 mm longis, bracteolatis ; fructibus oblongis, leviter compressis, 

 circiter 1.8 cm longis. 



A woody vine reaching a height of about 8 m (fide Ramos), 

 nearly glabrous, the branches and branchlets slender, terete, 1 

 to 2 mm in diameter, very minutely verruculose, the growing 

 parts minutely pubescent. Leaves alternate, subcoriaceous, 

 oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 6 to 14 cm long, 1.5 to 4 cm wide, 

 rather slenderly acuminate, base slightly narrowed, distinctly 

 cordate, the margins more or less repand and with a short glan- 

 dular tooth opposite the excurrent end of each primary lateral 

 nerve, rather pale, shining, and of about the same color on both 

 surfaces when dry, the upper surface smooth and glabrous, the 



