296 MERRILL. 



of fallen leaves, numerous, solitary, rather slender, 5 to 7 cm 

 long, sparingly appressed-pubescent, about 15-flowered. Flowers 

 5-merous, about 5 mm long, their pedicels 5 to 7 mm in length. 

 Sepals externally sparingly appressed-pubescent, distinctly pus- 

 tulate, lanceolate, narrowed upward to the acute or somewhat 

 acuminate apex, 5 mm long, 1.2 mm wide, inside glabrous or 

 nearly so. Petals equaling or a little longer than the sepals, 

 up to 1.8 mm wide, externally glabrous except for very few 

 hairs at the base, the margins densely villous-ciliate, inside 

 prominently villous-ciliate in the lower one-half, the apical one- 

 third split into 9 to 11 linear-filiform segments about 2 mm in 

 length. Stamens about 20, their filaments 1 mm long or less; 

 anthers linear, 2 mm long, cleft at the apex, the cells scabrid, 

 one a little longer than the other and with a tuft of few short 

 hairs at the tip. Ovary densely villous, 3-celled. 



Camiguin de Mindanao, in forests, Mount Mahinog, Bur. Sci. H635 

 Ramos, April 11, 1912. 



A species manifestly allied to Elaeocarpus verruculosus Aug. DC, which 

 it strongly resembles, differing especially in its much longer racemes, 

 long and slender pedicels, and in its much shorter petioles. 



TILIACEAE. 



TRIUMFETTA L. 



TRIUMFETTA PROCUMBENS Forst. f. Prodr. (1786) 35; Hemsl. in 

 Journ. Bot. 28 (1890) 1, fig. 1; Sprague & Hutchinson in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. Bot. 39 (1909) 246; Gagnepain in Not. Syst. 1 (1910) 

 170, cum descr. 

 Triumfetta fahreana Gaudich. Voy. (1826) 478, t. 102. 

 COMIRAN Island, Sulu Sea, Phil. PL HO Merrill, distributed as "Trium- 

 fetta repens Forst.," September, 1910, sandy seashore just above the limits 

 of high tides, extending inland only a short distance. 



The specimens previously reported from the Philippines by me as this 

 species ' were later found to represent the allied but quite distinct Triumfetta 

 repens (Bl.) Merr. & Rolfe.' 



Triumfetta procumbens Forst. is widely distributed in Polynesia, extend- 

 ing eastward to the islands off the north-east coast of Australia, Purdy 

 Island, north of New Guinea, to the small islands in the Indian Ocean off the 

 east coast of Africa, and the Keeling Islands. Triumfetta repens (Blume) 

 Merr. & Rolfe, for which Gagnepain prefers the later name T. radicans 

 Bojer (1843), extends from Madagascar and the Seychelles to the Keeling 

 Islands, Java, Borneo, Indo-China, the islands in the Gulf of Siam, and to 

 the small islands off the north-east coast of Australia. 



'Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 6 (1904) 17. 

 •This Journal 3 (1908) Bot. 111. 



