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deep, wide sinus, the basal lobes broadly rounded, margins re- 

 pand-toothed, the upper surface hispid-hirsute with scattered, 

 appressed, stiff hairs, the lower surface densely and softly puber- 

 ulent, the indumentum nearly obscuring the glands; petioles 

 up to 15 cm in length, puberulent. Panicles terminal, narrowly 

 pyramidal, about 20 cm long, the lower branches about 7 cm 

 long, all parts puberulent, the bracts narrowly spatulate, 1 to 1.5 

 cm long, the bracteoles linear or subfiliform, short. Flowers 

 numerous, red, their pedicels slender, 1 to 1.5 cm long. Calyx- 

 lobes pubescent, oblong, obtuse, somewhat unequal, about 3 mm 

 long, accrescent in fruit and 5 to 6 mm long. Corolla-tube 

 slender, about 12 mm long, 1 mm in diameter, slightly enlarged 

 above, sparingly pubescent externally, the lobes somewhat un- 

 equal, oblong to oblong-obovate, obtuse or rounded, 5 to 7 mm 

 long. Filaments slender, the exserted parts about 2 cm in length. 

 Fruit about 5 mm long, 8 mm wide, depressed-globose, of 2 to 4, 

 1-seeded pyrenes. 



Mindanao, District of Davao, Davao, in open wet places, Copeland, J^OU 

 (type), March 9, 1904, DeVore & Hoover 177, April, 1903. 



A species manifestly very closely allied to Clerodendron intermedium 

 Cham., which it greatly resembles in aspect. The chief differences appear 

 to be in the indumentum, C. intermedium Cham, being entirely glabrous, 

 the present species rather densely puberulent and pubescent. 



PREMNA Linnaeus 



PREMNA AREOLATA sp. nov. § Gumira. 



Frutex scandens, inflorescentiis exceptis glaber ; foliis oblongis, 

 usque ad 14 cm longis, chartaceis ad subcoriaceis, nitidis, in- 

 tegris, breviter acuminatis, basi acutis ad rotundatis, sabtus 

 dense areolatis, nervis utrinque circiter 6; inflorescentiis ter- 

 minalibus, brunneo-puberulis, multifloris; floribus 4-meris, par- 

 vis, calycibus obsolete 4-dentatis, corollae lobis late rotundatis, 

 subaequalibus. 



A scandent shrub, glabrous except the inflorescence, the 

 branches terete, grayish, somewhat lenticellate, the younger ones 

 dark-colored when dry. Leaves chartaceous to submembrana- 

 ceous, oblong, entire, 8 to 14 cm long, 3 to 5 cm wide, the 

 apex shortly acuminate, the base acute to rounded, olivaceous 

 or somewhat brownish when dry, shining, of about the samp 

 color on both surfaces or the lower one a little paler, the lower 

 surface very densely areolate, the areolae small, 1 mm or less 

 in diameter, each enclosed by the ultimate reticulations; lateral 

 nerves about 6 on each side of the midrib, slender, rather distinct, 

 somewhat ascending, anastomosing; petioles 1 to 2 cm long. 

 Inflorescence terminal, many flowered, usually peduncled, up to 



