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10 cm long and wide, the rachis, branches, branchlets, and bracts 

 rather densely brown-puberulent, the bracts lanceolate, the 

 largest ones 5 mm long or less. Flowers 4-merous, white or 

 nearly so, cymose, sessile. Calyx somewhat puberulent, 2 mm 

 long, truncate, obsoletely 2-toothed. Corolla-tube glabrous ex- 

 ternally, about 2.5 mm long, throat and upper part of the 

 tube inside densely villous, the lobes 4, subequal, broadly ovate, 

 rounded, about 1.4 mm long. Filaments slender, 2 to 2.5 mm 

 long. Style slender, glabrous, 3 mm long, the arms slender, 

 nearly 1 mm in length. 



Basilan, Bur. Sci. 16179 Reillo, September 6, 1912 (type). Mindanao, 

 District of Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens 604, September, 1906. 

 Said by Mrs. Clemens to be a vine reaching a length of from 75 to 100 

 feet, growing in large Ficus trees. 



The species is a very characteristic one, distinguishable by its oblong 

 leaves which are densely areolate on the lower surface, its scandent habit, 

 and its brown-puberulent inflorescence. 



PREMNA WILLIAM8II sp. nov. § Gumira. 



Species P. areolatae affinis, differt foliis subtus haud areo- 

 latis, basi semper acutis, apice acute acuminatis, nervis utrinque 

 5, petiolo longioribus, floribus paullo majoribus. 



A scandent shrub, glabrous except the inflorescence. Branches 

 terete, gray or brownish, somewhat lenticellate, the younger ones 

 scarcely darker in color than the mature ones. Leaves oblong, 

 chartaceous, entire, shining, of the same color on both surfaces, 

 8 to 14 cm long, 3 to 5 cm wide, narrowed below to the acute 

 base, the apex sharply acuminate; lateral nerves 5 on each side 

 of the midrib, curved-ascending, distinct; petioles up to 3 cm 

 in length. Inflorescence terminal, cymose, brown-puberulent up 

 to 8 cm long and wide, many-flowered. Flowers 4-merous. 

 Calyx cup-shaped, very obscurely puberulent or nearly glabrous, 

 somewhat 4-angled, 2.2 mm long, truncate, obscurely and broadly 

 4-toothed. Corolla-tube 3 mm long, glabrous externally, inside 

 in the upper part and the throat densely villous, subequally 

 4-lobed, the lobes broadly ovate, rounded, abomt 1.5 mm long. 

 Style slender, glabrous, 5 mm long, the arms about 1 mm in 

 length. 



Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Sax River, Williams 2330, the stems 

 trailing, reaching a diameter of 5 cm, flowers white. 



Manifestly very closely allied to the preceding species which it greatly 

 resembles. The leaves, however, are not at all areolate on the lower 

 surface, the petioles are longer, nerves fewer, and the flowers slightly 

 larger. 



