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axils of fallen leaves, but one or two in each axil, the pedicels 

 ferruginous-pubescent, up to 3 cm long. Young sepals broadly 

 ovate, obtuse, ferruginous-pubescent, coriaceous, about 4 mm 

 long. Very young corolla-lobes elliptic-ovate, rounded or slightly 

 retuse, 3 mm long. Stamens 18, the young anthers 2 mm long. 

 Ovary very slightly pubescent, 6-celled. Fruit oblong, inequi- 

 lateral, up to at least 3 cm in length (immature) tipped by the 

 style which is up to 14 mm in length, glabrous. 



Negros, Cadiz, For. Bur. 15029 Danao, March, 1908; Paniquon River, 

 For, Bur. 7325 Everett, March, 1907; near San Carlos, For. Bur. 20696 

 Ta/mesis (type), September, 1913, locally known as nato and bayog. 



This is the species that Dubard has referred, with doubt, to Palaquium 

 obovatum King & Gamble," from fruiting specimens; a more recent collec- 

 tion, however, presents y»ung flowers, and an examination of these shows 

 18, not 12 stamens, so that the specimens must be referred to the section 

 Palaquoides, not to Eupalaquium, to which P. obovatum belongs. It is 

 closely allied to Palaquium lanceolatum Blanco, differing in its larger 

 leaves which are broadly rounded at the apex, not at all acuminate, its 

 somewhat shorter pedicels, its much fewer flowers, but one or two in each 

 axil, and its slightly pubescent ovary. 



APOCYNACEAE 



ALYXIA R. Brown 

 ALYXIA CON FERTI FLORA sp. nov. 



Species ut videtur A. lucidae Wall, affinis, differt inflorescentiis 

 valde congestis, haud pedunculatis, quam petiolo multo brevio- 

 ribus, floribus longioribus, circiter 1 cm longis. 



A scandent shurb, quite glabrous except the inflorescence. 

 Branches smooth, reddish-brown, distinctly 4-angled. Leaves 

 fragrant in drying, whorled, 4 in each whorl, oblong, chartaceous 

 to subcoriaceous, 6 to 10 cm long, 2 to 3.5 cm wide, about equally 

 narrowed at both ends, the apex blunt-acuminate, the base de- 

 current-acuminate, both surfaces slightly shining when dry, the 

 lower a little paler than the upper, the margins recurved ; lateral 

 nerves very slender, indistinct, about 50 on each side of the 

 midrib, anastomosing with the faint submarginal nerve; petioles 

 1 to 1.5 cm long. Cymes axillary, sessile or very shortly pe- 

 duncled, congested, about 0.8 mm long (excluding the corollas), 

 pubescent, the flowers sessile, 5-merous, each subtended by an 

 ovate, pubescent, acute or acuminate bract about 3 mm long and 

 several similar but much smaller bracteoles. Calyx 3 mm long, 

 the lobes ovate, acute, about 2 mm long, ciliate-pubescent or 

 puberulent. Corolla-tube cylindric, externally glabrous, 10 mm 

 long, swollen above opposite the anthers, contracted at the 



"Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. 15 (1909) 280. 



