XIII, c.i Merrill: Philippine Plants, XIII 45 



An erect shrub about 2.5 m high, glabrous except the inflo- 

 rescence, the branches terete, wrinkled, about 1 cm in diameter. 

 Leaves membranaceous or somewhat chartaceous, suborbicular 

 in outline, about 25 cm long, deeply 5-lobed, the base subtruncate, 

 7-nerved, the lobes oblong, 5,5 to 7 cm wide, extending one-half 

 to two-thirds to the base, the sinuses rounded, the tips shortly 

 and abruptly apiculate, the margins distantly denticulate, not at 

 all lyrately lobed, both surfaces shining when dry, the upper sub- 

 olivaceous, the lower slightly paler; petioles about 30 cm long, 

 the lower half with prominent, scattered, oblique crests about 2 

 mm wide, their margins pectinate, the laciniae slender, 1 to 1.5 

 mm long, the lower crests surrounding the petioles, the upper 

 ones reduced in length. Inflorescences terminal, umbellate, the 

 peduncles about 1.5 cm long, all parts more or less furfuraceous, 

 the primary branches about 15, slender, up to 5 cm in length; 

 each branch bears a pair of ovate, about 3 mm long bracts about 

 2 cm above the base subtending a short-peduncled sterile head 

 and often an additional long-peduncled fertile one, the sterile 

 heads dense, 4 to 7 mm in diameter, their peduncles 1 cm long 

 or less, the peduncles of the fertile heads 2 to 2.5 cm long and 

 bibracteate at about the middle. Fertile heads in fruit 10 to 12 

 mm in diameter, the fruits crowded, sessile, ovoid, longitudinally 

 3-sulcate, 3-angled, 3-celled, about 6 mm long. 



Luzon, Apayao Subprovince, Guiniri, Bur. Sci. 28186 Fenix, May 12, 

 1917, on rocky slopes near streams. 



The alliance of this species is apparently with Baerlagiodendron luzon- 

 iense Merr., from which it is readily distinguished by its thinner leaves, 

 the lobes denticulate but not at all lyrately lobed, the numerous scattered 

 crests, 3-celled fruits, and other characters. 



BOERLAGIODENDRON TAYABENSE sp. nov. 



Frutex glaber, ramis teretibus, circiter 1 cm crassis; foliis 

 usque ad 28 cm longis, chartaceis, 3-lobatis, basi subtruncatis 

 ad late cordatis, lobis oblongis ad oblongo-obovatis, margine dis- 

 tanter apiculato-serrulatis ; petiolis 18 ad 22 cm longis, infra 

 perspicue cristatis, cristulis perspicue pectinatis, laciniis fili- 

 formibus, usque ad 1 cm longis; inflorescentiis pedunculatis, 

 confertis, radiis primariis circiter 4 cm longis, parce f urf uraceis ; 

 capitulis circiter 1 cm diametro. 



An erect, apparently simple shrub, glabrous except the inflo- 

 rescence. Branches wrinkled, terete, about 1 cm in diameter. 

 Leaves 22 to 28 cm long, up to 30 cm in width across the lateral 

 lobes, chartaceous, brownish or olivaceous-brownish when dry, 

 shining, deeply 3-lobed, the base subtruncate to shallowly cor- 

 date, 9-nerved, margins distantly apiculate-serrulate, the lateral 



