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wide. Corolla slender and tube-like below, the tube-like portion 

 about 3 cm long and 2 mm in diameter, the lobes 5, oblong, 

 narrowed at both ends, about 1.5 cm long, 6 mm wide, acute, 

 narrowed below into the long and slender claws that make 

 up the tube-like part. Staminal tube slender, glabrous, ex- 

 serted from the tube-like part of the corolla about 1.5 cm, 

 the reflexed laciniae at its apex 9 or 10, linear, acuminate, 4 

 mm long. Filaments filiform, inserted inside the tube, the 

 oblong anthers sparingly hispid, just exserted, about 1.5 mm 

 long, blunt at both ends, the apex obliquely apiculate. Ovary 

 ovoid, pubescent, 5-celled ; ovules 2 in each cell ; stigma depressed- 

 globose, 0.5 mm in diameter. 



Palawan, San Miguel, near the seashore. Bur. Set. 15563 Fenix, July 

 10, 1912. 



A species very similar to and manifestly allied to both Turraea humilis 

 (Blanco) Merr., and to T. ptimila Benn., differing from both in its larger 

 flowers. The latter species was described from Javan specimens, and is at 

 present unknown outside of that island unless the Philippine T. humilis 

 proves to be identical. Both F.-Villar and myself have considered the 

 Philippine and Javan plants to be identical, the former reducing Blanco's 

 Plagianthus humilis to Turraea pumila Benn., while I retained Blanco's 

 specific name as the valid one, it being the older. It seems, judging from 

 Bennett's description of T. pumila, that his species is not the same as the 

 Philippine one described by Blanco as Plagianthus humilis and which I 

 have transferred to Turraea as a valid species. Turraea Mimilis (Blanco) 

 Merr. is known only from Luzon, and it is exceedingly local and rare. It 

 is represented by the following specimens: 



Luzon, Province of Rizal, San Juan del Monte, near Manila, Merrill 

 6282, June, 1908: Province of Laguna, San Antonio, Bur. Sci. 1U99A Ramos, 

 June, 1912. 



The leaves are 3 to 6 cm long, ovate or elliptic-ovate, undulate but not 

 lobed, and the flowers are 3 to 3.5 cm in length. 



WALSURA Roxburgh 

 WALSURA VILLAMILII sp. nov. 



Species distinctissima ap omnibus adhuc cognitarum differt 

 filamentis haud \ connatis, foliis 7-foliolatis. 



A tree about 13 m in height, nearly glabrous, or the inflores- 

 cence and younger parts very sparingly pubescent, the growing 

 parts distinctly brownish-puberulent. Branches glabrous, 

 brownish-olivaceous, lenticellate. Leaves 7-foliolate, about 50 

 cm long, the petiole 10 to 15 cm in length, brown when dry. 

 Leaflets oblong to oblong-lanceolate, coriaceous, entire, glabrous, 

 15 to 20 cm long, 3 to 5.5 cm wide, the apex slenderly subcau- 

 date-acuminate, the base acute, the upper surface, when dry, 

 pale-greenish-olivaceous, shining, the lower one glaucescent, the 



