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throat, the tube prominently pubescent inside; lobes spreading- 

 recurved, orbicular, 3 mm in diameter. Anthers narrowly ovate- 

 lanceolate, 1.2 mm long. Ovary short, pubescent. Fruit not 

 seen. 



Basilan, Bur. Sci. 16HS Reillo, September, 1912. 



A species manifestly allied to the Malayan Alyxia lucida Wall., which 

 it greatly resembles, but from which it is distingushed by its congested 

 inflorescence which is much shorter than the petioles, its longer flowers, 

 and more numerously nerved leaves. It is also closely allied to Alyxia 

 odorata Wall., perhaps closer to this than to A. lucida, but is distinguish- 

 able by its acuminate, not acute or obtuse leaves, shorter cymes, sessile 

 flowers, and orbicular, not ovate, corolla-lobes. 



ALSTON I A R. Brown 



ALSTON I A OB LONG I FOLIA sp. nov, § Dissuraspermum. 



Arbor circiter 10 m alta, ramulis subtus foliis inflorescen- 

 tiisque leviter pubescentibus ; foliis ternis vel quatemis, char- 

 taceis vel subcoriaceis, subtus pallidis, oblongis ad oblongo- 

 lanceolatis, usque ad 14 cm longis, nervis distantibus, utrinque 

 14 ad 18, distinctis ; inflorescentiis terminalibus, floribus circiter 

 8 mm longis. 



A tree about 10 m high. Branches obscurely angled, slightly 

 pubescent. Leaves whorled, 3 or 4 at each node, oblong to 

 oblong-lanceolate, narrowed and somewhat acuminate at both 

 ends, chartaceous or subcoriaceous, 6 to 14 cm long, 2 to 4 cm 

 wide, the upper surface glabrous, shining, brown when dry, the 

 lower surface much paler, slightly pubescent, especially on the 

 midrib and nerves; nerves distant, spreading, distinct, brown, 

 14 to 18 on each side of the midrib, the reticulations slender, 

 not prominent; petioles somewhat pubescent, less than 1 cm 

 long. Inflorescence terminal, sessile, that is numerous peduncles 

 springing from the apex of the branchlet, the peduncles slender, 

 slightly pubescent, 2 to 7 cm long, subumbellately or corymbosely 

 branched at their apices, the branches gray-villous but not 

 densely so. Flowers numerous, white, their pedicels 1 to 2 mm 

 long. Calyx cup-shaped, slightly gray-pubescent, about 1.5 mm 

 long, the lobes very short. Corolla-tube about 5 mm long, cylin- 

 dric, slightly pubescent on the outside, somewhat inflated above 

 the middle opposite the insertion of the stamens, inside and 

 throat villous, the lobes oblong, obtuse, 3.5 to 4 mm long, over- 

 lapping to the right, their margins ciliate-villous. Anthers in- 

 serted above the middle, about 1 mm long. Ovary glabrous, 

 narrowed into the slender, 2 mm long style. 



Palawan, in old clearings near Puerto Piincesa, For. Bur. H95 Curran, 

 June 5, 1906. 



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