PHILIPPINE PLANTS, IX. 305 



A tree about 10 m high, more or less densely tomentose, the 

 branches terete, reddish-brown, the younger ones covered with 

 a somewhat deciduous, white or somewhat brownish tomentum. 

 Leaves oblong-ovate, often subrhomboidal, subcoriaceous, 5 to 

 8 cm long, 3 to 5 cm long, entire, somewhat inequilateral, the base 

 broad, rounded or subtruncate, not cordate or auriculate, the 

 apex shortly and sharply acuminate, the upper surface glabrous, 

 shining, the lower surface densely white-tomentose, or the 

 tomentum somewhat brownish ; lateral nerves distinct, ascending, 

 3 or 4 on each side of the midrib; petioles 5 mm long or less, 

 tomentose. Flowers terminal and in the upper axils, forming a 

 distinct and rather many-flowered panicle, their pedicels, or 

 pedicels and the ultimate branchlets, 2 to 5 cm long, each with 

 several scattered bracteoles which are lanceolate, acuminate, 

 about 6 mm long, and somewhat sagittate at the base by a pair of 

 prominent, rounded auricles. Buds densely brown-stellate- 

 pubescent externally, cylindric, oblong. Sepals about 5.5 cm 

 long, 5 mm wide, acuminate, inside appressed pubescent with 

 grayish hairs. Petals thin, about 4 cm long, 7 mm wide. Sterile 

 stamens five, 3.5 to 4 cm long, the fertile ones 15, including the 

 8 mm long linear anthers, 2.5 cm in length. Ovary pubescent; 

 style 3.5 cm long. Immature capsules cylindric, glabrous, nar- 

 rowly oblong, about 4 cm long. 



Camiguin de Mindanao, Bur. Sci. 1^632 Ramos, April 9, 1912, in forests. 

 Mount Mahinog, flowers yellow, fragrant. 



A species manifestly closely allied to Pterospermum niveum Vid., which 

 it greatly resembles, differing in its somewhat smaller leaves which are 

 not at all cordate or auriculate at the base, but are rounded or subtruncate 

 and much less inequilateral than in Vidal's species, and in its paniculate, 

 long-pedicelled flowers. 



DILLENIACEAE. 



DILLENIA L. 

 DILLENIA BOLSTERI sp. nov. § Wormia ? 



Arbor circiter 10 m alta, foliis junioribus ramulis inflores- 

 centiisque plus minusve pilosis; foliis elhpticis vel oblongo-ellip- 

 ticis, acute acuminatis, basi acutis vel rotundatis, margine 

 serratis, usque ad 25 cm longis, nervis utrinque circiter 17; 

 inflorescentiis in axillis superioribus terminalibusque, 2 ad 5- 

 floris; floribus albidis, circiter 6 cm diametro; stylis 8 vel 10. 



A tree about 10 m high. Branches terete, reddish-brown, 

 glabrous, the branchlets appressed-pilose, rarely nearly glabrous. 

 Leaves alternate, elliptic to oblong-elliptic, subcoriaceous, 10 to 

 25 cm long, 4 to 10 cm wide, more or less pilose when young, 



