320 ^^^ Philippine Jownal of Science i»u 



12 to 15 on each side of the midrib, slender, distinct, anasto- 

 mosing, about equally evident on both surfaces ; petioles densely 

 villous, 3 mm long. Flowers axillary, solitary, 5-merous, their 

 peduncles stout, curved, somewhat villous, about 2.5 cm long. 

 Sepals about 1 cm long, 7 mm wide, coriaceous, ovate, acute or 

 slightly acuminate, glabrous inside, outside somewhat densely 

 appressed-villous with pale, short hairs, the margins minutely 

 glandular-denticulate. Petals broadly elliptic to elliptic-ovate, 

 rounded, not at all retuse, 1.4 cm long, 1 cm wide, externally 

 appressed-villous in the exposed median parts, inside and the 

 broad margins externally glabrous. Stamens 35; filaments 

 glabrous, 4 to 5 mm long; anthers lanceolate, acuminate, 5 mm 

 long, very sparingly villous with long stiff hairs on the back. 

 Ovary ovoid, densely villous, 4-celled, the ovules indefinite; style 

 stout, about 8 mm long, widened below to the ovary, prominently 

 villous except near the glabrous apex, cleft into four 1.5 to 2 mm 

 long arms, the stigmas capitate. 



Luzon, Benguet Subprovince, Pauai, Bur. Sci. 8^25 McGregor, June, 

 1909, in forests, altitude above 2,100 m. 



A species manifestly allied to Adinandra elliptica C. B. Rob., but distin- 

 guishable at once by its much larger flowers, as well as by numerous details 

 in vegetative and floral characters. 



ADINANDRA NIGRO-PUNCTATA sp. nov. 



Arbor circiter 10 m alta, subglabra; foliis coriaceis, ellipticis 

 ad oblongo-obovatis, 4 ad 7 cm longis, nitidis, basi acutis, apice 

 late acuminatis vel obtusis, minute retusis, margine minute 

 glanduloso-denticulatis, subtus glandulis minutis sparsis nigris 

 instructis, nervis utrinque circiter 7; sepalis 5, subaequalibus, 

 ellipticis, glabris; staminibus circiter 50, densissime hirsutis; 

 ovario glabro, 5-loculare. 



A tree about 12 m in height, glabrous except the flowers and 

 the growing tips of the branchlets. Branches stout, terete, 

 reddish-brown, glabrous, the terminal buds pubescent. Leaves 

 coriaceous, elliptic to oblong-obovate, 4 to 7 cm long, 1.5 to 3 

 cm wide, the base acute, the apex very broadly and shortly 

 blunt-acuminate, sometimes merely obtuse, usually minutely 

 retuse, margins very obscurely and minutely glandular-denticu- 

 late, in the lower part quite entire, the upper surface somewhat 

 olivaceous when dry, strongly shining, usually minutely ver- 

 ruculose, the lower surface a little paler, with small, scattered, 

 black glands; lateral nerves about 7 on each side of the 

 midrib, .slender, not prominent, about equally evident on 

 both surfaces; petioles 5 mm long. Flowers axillary, soli- 



