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ments exserted 6 to 10 mm. Ovary glabrous; style spatulate. 

 Disk prominent, glabrous, about 1.5 mm in diameter. 



Palawan, Mount Capoas, Malampaya Bay, Merrill 9U97, April 21, 1913, 

 epiphytic in the mossy forest, altitude about 950 meters. 



A species readily distinguished by its very short inflofescence, in this 

 character approaching D. asperifolium Benth. & Hook, f., and D. brevipes 

 Clarke, from both of which, however, it is very distinct. 



TRICHOSPORUM D. Don 

 TRICHOSPORUM BRACHYSEPALUM sp. nov. 



Frutex epiphyticus, scandens, glaber, tenuibus; foliis oppos- 

 itis, coriaceis, oblongo-lanceolatis, usque ad 8 cm longis, acum- 

 inatis, nervis lateralibus obsoletis ; floribus axillaribus, solitariis, 

 pedicellatis, calycis usque ad basin divisi, segmentis 2 mm 

 longis; corolla 2.2 cm longa, curvata, staminibus exsertis, fila- 

 mentis pubescentibus. 



An epiphytic, glabrous, slender, branched vine, the stems and 

 branches rather slender, terete, light-gray, the branchlets often 

 longitudinally sulcate or striate when dry. Leaves opposite, 

 oblong-lanceolate, fleshy when fresh, coriaceous and wrinkled 

 when dry, 6 to 8 cm long, 1.5 to 2 cm wide, narrowed below to 

 the acute base, and above to the sharply and usually slenderly 

 acuminate apex, the lateral nerves obsolete or nearly so ; petioles 

 2 to 5 mm long. Flowers axillary, solitary, their pedicels 

 slender, glabrous, about 1 cm long. Calyx consisting of 5, small, 

 ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 2 mm long, glabrous lobes. Corolla 

 tubular, curved, base broadly rounded, glabrous, 2 to 2.2 cm 

 long, about 4.5 mm in diameter, the throat somewhat oblique, 

 limb 2-lipped, 2 lobes somewhat larger than the other 3, the lobes 

 orbicular, rounded, about 4 mm in diameter, their margins with 

 few, scattered, stiff hairs. Disk glabrous, truncate, 0.5 mm in 

 diameter. Ovary glabrous; style pubescent. Stamens exserted 

 about 1 cm; filaments pubescent; anthers connate, about 2 mm 

 long. 



Basilan, Cumalarang, Bur. Sci. 16163 Reillo, August 25, 1912. 

 A species well characterized by its greatly reduced calyx which consists 

 merely of 5, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 2 mm long lobes. 



TRICHOSPORUM MACGREGORII sp. nov. § Haplotrichium. 



Species T. rizalense affinis, differt floribus majoribus, 3.5 cm 

 longis, corolla deorsum haud angustata, lobis majoribus (circiter 

 6 mm diametro), foliis tenuiter acuminatis. 



An epiphytic vine, glabrous except the inflorescence, the 

 branches light-gray, terete, the branchlets slender. Leaves 



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