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on the midrib and nerves, becoming nearly glabrous, the margins 

 rather coarsely and distantly apiculate or glandular-serrate, the 

 teeth corresponding to the lateral nerves ; lateral nerves about 12 

 on each side of the midrib, curved, anastomosing, very prom- 

 inent on the lower surface, the reticulations lax, prominent; 

 petioles 2 to 3 cm long, hirsute, becoming nearly glabrous. Ra- 

 cemes terminal, solitary, about 15 cm long, densely hirsute, the 

 rachis rather stout. Flowers pale-lavender, about 30 in each 

 raceme, their densely hirsute pedicels about 4 mm long, the 

 bracteoles 3 at the apices of the pedicels, linear, hirsute, the 

 two lateral ones 8 to 9 mm long, 0.5 mm wide or less, the middle 

 one up to 12 mm long and a little wider than the lateral ones. 

 Calyx somewhat hirsute, including the lanceolate, acuminate 

 calyx-teeth about 6 mm long. Petals 4, about 2.5 cm long, 

 2.2 mm wide, scarcely narrowed upward, with about 4, dark- 

 colored nerves, hirsute, the apex thickened. Filaments slender, 

 scarcely flattened, 8 to 9 mm long, sparingly pubescent; anthers 

 linear, about as wide as the filament, obtuse, 6 to 7 mm long. 

 Style about 1.7 cm long, slender. 



Luzon, Subprovince of Ifugao, Mount Polis, Bur. Sci. 19656 McGregor, 

 February, 1913. 



A most striking species, at once distinguished from all known Philip- 

 pine forms by its large flowers and very prominent, linear, elongated 

 bracteoles. 



CUNONIACEAE 



WEINMANNIA Linnaeus 



WEINMANNIA LUCIDA sp. nov. § Leiospemnum. 



Arbor circiter 10 m alta inflorescentiis exceptis glabra; foliis 

 3- vel 5-foliolatis, usque ad 15 cm longis, foliolis subcoriaceis, 

 lanceolati^ vel oblongo-lanceolatis, in siccitate brunneis, utrinque 

 valde nitidis, longe acuminatis, basi acutis, margine distanter 

 crenato-serratis, reticulis laxis, haud prominentibus ; racemis 

 multifloris, folia subaequantibus, pubescentibus ; floribus 4-meris, 

 sepalis caducis. 



A tree about 10 m high, glabrous except the inflorescence. 

 Branches grayish, terete, the younger parts brownish. Leaves 

 opposite, 9 to 15 cm long, the rachis and petiole quite glabrous ; 

 leaflets 3 or 5, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, subcoriaceous, 

 strongly shining, brownish and of the same color on both sur- 

 faces when dry, 5 to 10 cm long, 1.5 to 4 cm wide, the apex 

 slenderly acuminate, the acumen blunt, the base acute, the 

 margins slightly and distantly crenate-serrate ; lateral nerves 

 about 10 on each side of the midrib, slender, not prominent. 



