312 The Philippine Journal of Science 1914 



narrowly obovoid to oblong-ellipsoid, about 1.5 cm long, 8 to 10 

 mm in diameter, rounded at the apex, the valves 3, very thick. 



Luzon, Province of Pangasinan, Salasa, For. Bur. 11836 Domingo, 

 November 20, 1912. 



Well characterized by its strongly shining leaves and its very thick 

 capsule-valves. Not closely allied to Gymnosporia spinona Merr. & Rolfe, 

 the only other known Philippine species. 



EUONYMUS Linnaeus 



EUONYMUS VIBURNIFOLIUS (Juss.) comb. nov. 



Aegiphila vibumifolia Juss. in Ann. Mus. Paris 7 (1806) 76; Walp. 

 Repert. 4 (1844-48) 124; Schauer in DC. Prodr. 11 (1847) 655. 



Euonymus philippinensis Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 3 (1908) Bot. 238. 



Jussieu's species has long been a doubtful one, for manifestly it could 

 not belong in the genus Aegiphila which is confined to tropical America. 

 The type, Commerson, in Herb. Mus. Paris, was from the Philippines. The 

 original specimen was examined and photographed by the late Dr. C. B. 

 Robinson in November, 1911, and from an examination of the photograph 

 and notes I am now able definitely to refer the species to the Celastraceae, 

 and very definitely to the species I described a few years ago as Euonymus 

 philippivensis. 



ICACINACEAE 



MIQUELIA Meissner 

 MIQUELIA RETICULATA sp. nov. 



Scandens, partibus junioribus subtus foliis inflorescentiisque 

 leviter breviter hirsutis; foliis oblongis, chartaceis, usque ad 17 

 cm longis, in siccitate pallidis, nitidis, apice tenuiter acuminatis, 

 basi rotundatis leviter cordatisque, nervis lateralibus circiter 6, 

 subtus cum reticulis laxis valde prominentibus ; floribus 9 

 umbellatis, 4-meris, 3.5 mm longis. 



A scandent, apparently woody plant, the branchlets terete, 

 pale when dry, slender, sparingly hirsute with short hairs. 

 Leaves oblong, entire, 14 to 17 cm long, 4 to 6 cm wide, pale and 

 somewhat shining when dry, the upper surface smooth and 

 glabrous, the lower prominently reticulate and sparingly hirsute, 

 the apex slenderly and prominently acuminate, somewhat 

 narrowed below to the rounded and slightly cordate base; basal 

 nerves 3 pairs, the lower two pairs very short, the lateral nerves 

 above the base 5 or 6 on each side of the midrib, anastomosing, 

 very prominent on the lower surface, the reticulations lax, 

 prominent; petioles pale, 1.5 to 8 cm long, very sparingly hirsute. 

 Female flowers umbellate, on slender, axillary, simple peduncles 

 at anthesis about 3 cm long, elongated in fruit, about 10 in 

 each umbel, the pedicels sparingly pubescent, slender, 6 to 8 

 mm long. Calyx very minute or nearly obsolete. Petals 4, 



