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lower one minutely scabrid; lateral nerves 5 or 6 on each side 

 of the midrib, prominent, distant, somewhat curved, anasto- 

 mosing, the reticulations lax, distinct ; petioles 0.5 to 1.5 cm long, 

 minutely pubescent, becoming glabrous, usually strongly curved. 

 Spikes supra-axillary, slender, minutely pubescent, 2 to 4 cm 

 long, flower-bearing only in the upper one-fourth or one-fifth. 

 Male flowers unJi;nown. Female flowers few, 10 or less on each 

 spike, sessile, scattered, each subtended by an oblong-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, 0.4 mm long bracteole. Perianth simple, 1.8 to 2 

 mm long, the calyx represented by a very obscure disk, the tube 

 very short, the lobes 4, valvate, oblong, obtuse, about 0.7 mm 

 wide, pubescent externally. Staminodes very minute, alternat- 

 ing with the perianth-lobes. Ovary ellipsoid, densely pubescent, 

 about 1 mm long, 1-celled; ovules 2, pendulous; stigma sessile, 

 truncate, round, minutely papillate. Drupe oblong, slightly com- 

 pressed, glabrous, red or yellowish when mature, about 1.8 cm 

 long, 1 cm wide, the pulp rather thin, fleshy. Seed about 1.5 

 long, 8 mm wide, about equally narrowed and acute at both ends, 

 slightly compressed, the testa crustaceous, externally somewhat 

 punctate, internally papillose, the papillae projecting into the 

 interstices of the ruminate albumen. Albumen firm, deeply 

 ruminated, yellow, oily, externally deeply pitted. 



Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Kabibihan, climbing in tall trees in forests 

 along the river, Bur. Sci. 13289 Ramos, March 3, 1911. 



Apparently a very distinct generic type, possibly most closely allied to 

 Sarcostigma Wight & Arnott, although differing from that genus in many 

 essential characters, such as the absence of the calyx, or at least the 

 calyx represented by a very obscure disk, the scattered, not fascicled, 

 spicate flowers, the repand and glandular-toothed, not entire leaves, and in 

 its albuminous seeds, the albumen being deeply pitted and ruminate. 



Dedicated to the late Doctor Paul Caspar Freer, founder and director of 

 the Bureau of Science from its inception as the Bureau of Government 

 Laboratories in the year 1901, until his death in April, 1912. 



PHYTOCRENE WalL 

 PHYTOCRENE LOHERI sp. nov. 



Frutex scandens, ramulis foliisque subglaber; ramulis teret- 

 ibus, 3 ad 4 mm diametro, leviter longitudinaliter striatis, brun- 

 neis, parce breviter pubescentibus ; f oliis ovatis, coriaceis, integris, 

 acuminatis, basi late rotundato-truncatis vel subcordatis, 5- 

 nerviis, reticulis obscuris; capitulis ut videtur globosis, drupis 

 numerosis, oblongis, 7 ad 8 cm longis, dense adpresse villosis. 



A scandent shrub, nearly glabrous, the branchlets terete, dark- 

 brown when dry, dull, slightly longitudinally striate, slightly pu- 



