IX, c, 4 Merrill: Philippine Plants, X 307 



Fruit before dehiscence apparently ovoid, glabrous, splitting into 

 5 valves, the valves strongly recurved, very thickly coriaceous, 

 almost woody, ovate to oblong-ovate, acute or acuminate, about 

 1.2 cm long, longtudinally keeled along the inside and grooved 

 along the back. Seeds obovoid, black and shining when dry, 

 about 6 mm long. 



Luzon, Province of Rizal, Bosoboso, Biir. Sci. 977 Ramos (type), June, 

 1906, in flower: Province of Pampanga, Mount Arayat, Merrill 3913, Oc- 

 tober, 1904, For. Bur. 9619 Zschokke, October, 1907, both in fruit. 



This is in all probability the form that has been credited to the Phil- 

 ippines by several authors as Turraea pubescens Hellen. The Philippine 

 record was based on Vidal 165^. from Marinduque, which I have examined 

 in the Kew Herbarium, and which I have noted as being matched by two 

 of the specimens cited above as well as by Loher i6i3 from Arayat. At 

 the time the Kew material was examined it was noted that the Philippine 

 material differed from T. pubescens Hellen., in its differently shaped leaves, 

 glabrous ovary, and larger, quite different fruit. I now have a specimen 

 of Turraea pubescens in the herbarium of the Bureau of Science, Cochin- 

 china, Pierre 2772, which confirms the above notes. The fruits are remark- 

 ably different both in texture and in shape, the valves being merely coria- 

 ceous and not reflexed. It is quite evident from the material at present 

 available that the Philippine form is specifically very distinct from the 

 one found in southeastern Asia, and that Turraea pubescens Hellen, does not 

 extend to the Philippines. 



TURRAEA PALAWAN ENSIS sp. nov, § Euturraea. 



Suffrutex parvus, circiter 20 cm altus, erectus, partibus junior- 

 ibus pubescentibus ; foliis membranaceis, oblongis, usque ad 10 

 cm longis, irregulariter lobatis vel undulato-lobatis, costa nervis- 

 que subtus pubescentibus; racemis paucifloris; floribus 4 ad 4.5 

 cm longis. 



A species similar and allied to Turraea humilis (Blanco) 

 Merr., and T. pumila Benn. An undershrub about 20 cm high, 

 the woody parts slender, reddish-brown, glabrous or slightly 

 pubescent, not or but sparingly branched, the growing parts 

 gray-pubescent. Leaves alternate, oblong in general outline, 

 membranaceous, 5 to 10 cm long, 2 to 4.5 cm wide, the apex 

 obtuse, the base decurrent-acuminate, the margins irregularly 

 lobed or undulate lobed, the lobes usually 3 on each side, the 

 upper surface glabrous or nearly so, the lower one very slightly 

 paler then the upper and more or less pubescent on the midrib 

 and lateral nerves; lateral nerves 4 or 5 on each side of the 

 midrib, prominent, usually forked, the reticulations very lax; 

 petioles 2 cm long or less, pubescent. Racemes axillary, solitary, 

 3-flowered or less, pubescent. Flowers white, 4 to 4.5 cm long, 

 the bracts linear, 2 to 3 mm long. Calyx pubescent, the lobes 

 5, linear, acuminate, pubescent, 6 to 8 mm long, about 1 mm 



