X, c. 5 Merrill: Philippine Plants, XII 327 



15 on each side of the midrib, slender, distinct, anastomosing; 

 petioles 1.5 to 2 cm long. Panicles axillary and subterminal, 

 ample, many-flowered, open, about as long as the leaves, branched 

 from the base, the lower branches sometimes 25 cm in length, 

 all parts rather densely gray-pubescent. Perianth-tube funnel- 

 shaped, 4 mm long, somewhat hirsute. Sepals 7, when fully 

 grown 6 to 7 mm long, about 1.8 mm wide, obtuse, pubescent, 

 oblong-oblanceolate. Petals 7, oblong, obtuse, pubescent, about 

 4 mm long. Stamens 21, in groups of three each opposite the 

 petals ; filaments filiform, 2.5 to 3 mm long, very slightly pubes- 

 cent; anthers 0.3 mm long. Ovary densely hirsute, the styles 1 

 to 1.5 mm long. 



Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Talisay, For. Bur. 13781 Foxworthy, 

 DeMesa, & Villamil (type), June 18, 1912, in forests, altitude about 30 

 meters; near Port Banga, For. Bur. 15216 Klemme, July, 1910, sterile 

 specimen, 



A species most closely allied to Homalium luzoniense F.-Vill., but well 

 characterized by its oblong entire leaves. 



The specimen collected by Klemme consists of leaves only, taken from 

 sprouts. One leaf is entire, 40 cm long and 14 cm wide, while the other, 

 a more juvenile form, is 40 cm long and 20 cm wide, the margins being 

 distinctly undulate-toothed. 



SCOLOPIA Schreb. 



Most of the recently collected Philippine material of the genus Scolopia 

 has been referred to Scolopia crenata Clos, and to S. luzonensis (Presl) 

 Warb. While Briquet's paper on the genus has been known to me for 

 some years, it has only recently become available.* Following Briquet in 

 his interpretation of the group of species closely allied to Scolopia crenata 

 Clos, in which he is doubtless correct, the known Philippine forms may 

 be disposed of as follows: 



SCOLOPIA LUZONENSIS (Presl) Warb. in Engl. & Prantl Nat. Pflan- 



zenfam. 3"'' (1893) 30, /. 11; Briq. in Ann. Conserv. Jard. Bot. 



Geneve 2 (1908) 45; Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 



98. 

 Dasianthera luzonensis Presl Rel. Haenk. 2 (1835) 90, t. 66. 

 Phoheros dasyanthera Benn. PI. Jav. Rar. (1844) 192; F.-Vill. Novis. 



App. (1880) 12. 

 Banara racemosa Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 425. 

 Flacourtia corollata Blanco 1. c. ed. 2 (1845) 559. 

 Flacourtia crenata F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 12; Vid. Rev. PI. Vase. 



Filip. (1886) 48; Sinopsis Atlas (1883) 13, t. 7, f. B, non Clos. 

 Phoheros sp. Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 27 (1854) 333. 

 Scolopia rhinanthera F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 12, non Clos. 



' Briquet, J. Remarques sur les especes asiatiques du genre Scolopia 

 Schreb., Ann. Conserv. Jard. Bot. Geneve 2 (1908) 41-47. 



