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ellipsoid or ovoid, smooth, pale, shining, splitting into 3 valves, 

 the pericarp very firm, about 2 mm thick; seeds numerous, com- 

 pressed, inequilateral, about 8 mm long, pale, prominently pitted, 

 base acute, apex somewhat oblique, their funicles up to 2 cm in 

 length. 



Basilan, Bur. Sci. 15^19 Reillo, August, 1912. 



In vegetative characters somewhat similar to our common Adenia coccinea 

 (Blanco) Merr., but in this species the pericarp of the mature fruit is 

 very thin, almost membranaceous. 



THYMELAEACEAE 



WIKSTROEMIA Endlicher 

 WIKSTROEMIA POLYANTHA sp. nov. 



Frutex vel arbor parva, ramulis puberulis vel leviter pubes- 

 centibus; foliis brevissime petiolatis, ovatis ad oblongo-ovatis, 

 coriaceis, nitidis, usque ad 6 cm longis, acutis vel obscure 

 acuminatis, basi late rotundatis vel obscure cordatis, nervis 

 utrinque circiter 8, tenuibus; inflorescentiis racemosis, floribus 

 numerosis, brevissime pedicellatis, circiter 1 cm longis, extus 

 glabris vel parcissime pubescentibus. 



A shrub or small tree, nearly glabrous, the branches terete, 

 reddish-brown, glabrous, the branchlets obscurely puberulent, the 

 younger ones with very short, appressed, cinereous hairs, some- 

 what angled or compressed. Leaves ovate to oblong-ovate, 

 glabrous, brownish when dry, shining on both surfaces, the lower 

 surface a little paler than the upper, the apex acute or very ob- 

 scurely acuminate, the base broadly rounded, often obscurely 

 cordate; nerves slender, about 8 on each side of the midrib, 

 obscurely anastomosing; petioles reddish-brown, obscurely pu- 

 berulent, 2 mm long or less. Racemes terminal or in the up- 

 permost axils, appressed-hirsute, 2 to 3 cm long, many-flowered, 

 the entire lower part thickly covered with the persistent pedicels 

 of fallen flowers, the buds and open flowers crowded at the apices, 

 the pedicels sparingly appressed-hirsute, stout, less than 1 mm 

 long. Perianth cylindric, yellow, 10 to 11 mm long, about 1.5 

 mm in diameter, glabrous outside, or with very few scattered 

 hairs in the upper part, the two outer lobes orbicular-elliptic, 

 broadly rounded, 2.2 mm long, the two inner ones somewhat 

 shorter and narrower. Stamens 8, 4 inserted at about the mid- 

 dle of the tube, 4 inserted near the apex, included; anthers 

 narrowly oblong, 1.5 mm long. Ovary narrowly oblong, cylin- 

 dric, 2.5 mm long, villous at the apex, glabrous below; style 

 slender, about 1 mm long; stigma globose, 0.5 mm in diameter. 



