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nally, the tube somewhat enlarged upward, the lobes 5, oblong, 

 blunt, about 2 mm long. Filaments exserted; anthers 2 mm 

 long, more or less glandular. 



Cebu, Cuming 1773. 



Duplicates of the above number were referred by Schauer to Callicarpa 

 pentandra Roxh.^ Geunsia farinosa Blume, but Sir Joseph Hooker in his 

 "Flora of British India" under Geunsia farimosa Blume, says "Cuming's No. 

 1773, reduced to G. farinosa by Schauer, is probably, as stated in Gen. PI. 

 2, p. 1150, a good species." 



It seems to me to be much more distinct from Blume's species than is 

 Geunsia cumingiana (Schauer) Rolfe, which Hooker thinks is perhaps not 

 distinct from G. farinosa Blume. In this genus, as in Callicarpa, the amount 

 of pubescence on different forms seems to vary considerably, but Geunsia 

 hookeri, above described, is distinguished from the previously described 

 forms especially by its very scanty pubescence, which by no means covers the 

 lower surface of the leaf, as in G. farimosa, and in G. cumingiana. 



GEUNSIA CUMINGIANA (Schauer) Rolfe in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 21 

 (1884) 315. 

 Samar, Cuming 1707 (cotype). Negros, Cadiz, For. Bur. 12UUU Banao, 

 March, 1908. Leyte, Palo, Elmer 7368, January, 1906. Mindanao, District 

 of Zamboanga, Tetuan, Ahem 378: Province of Misamis, Mount Malindang, 

 For. Bur. U712 Mearns & Hutchinson, May, 1906. 

 Endemic. 



VITEX L. 

 VITEX NITIDA sp. nov. 



Arbor circiter 5 m alta, partibus junioribus floribusque plus 

 minusve pubescentibtis ; foliis tri- vel quinquefoliolatis, foliolis 

 nitidis, elliptico-ovatis, obtusis vel obscure acuminatis, usque 

 ad 10 cm longis, 2 basilaribus multo minoribus; cymis pedun- 

 culatis, axillaribus, folia subaequantibus ; floribus ut videtur 

 albidis, calycibus truncatis, subglabris, corolla extus dense pu- 

 bescente. 



A tree about 5 m high, the branches light-gray, smooth, some- 

 what 4-angled, the growing parts black when dry, more or less 

 fulvous-pubescent, becoming glabrous or nearly so. Leaves 3- 

 and 5-foliolate on the same branches, their petioles 5 to 7 cm 

 long. Leaflets elliptic-ovate, dark-colored when dry, shining, 

 glabrous or nearly so, entire, base acute or acuminate, apex 

 obtuse or shortly and broadly acuminate, the central one 7 to 

 10 cm long, the two next below somewhat smaller, the basal pair, 

 when present, much reduced, 2 to 3.5 cm long, all petiolulate. 

 Cymes axillary, solitary, in the upper axils, forming a terminal 

 leafy inflorescence, a little shorter than the leaves, their pedun- 

 cles 2 to 6 cm long, very slightly pubescent or glabrous, dicho- 

 tomous, eventually rather lax, comparatively few-flowered. 

 Flowers white, according to the collector, in triads on the ulti- 



