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que densissime verruculoso-rugosis, brunneis vel atro-brunneis, 

 nitidis; floribus magnis, circiter 10 cm longis, subcampanulatis. 

 A scandent shrub attaining a height of 30 meters according 

 to Curran and a diameter of 18 cm, entirely glabrous. Branches 

 stout, about 1 cm in diameter when dry, wrinkled, olivaceous to 

 blackish-brown, shining. Leaves very thickly coriaceous, brown 

 to black-brown on both surfaces when dry, shining, densely 

 verruculose-rugose, oblong-obovate to narrowly obovate, 12 to 

 25 cm long, 6 to 8 cm wide, apex rounded, gradually narrowed 

 below the middle to the decurrent-acuminate base, the midrib 

 very prominent, the lateral nerves obsolete or nearly so ; petioles 

 stout, 2 to 4 cm long, the thick, inflated, basal portion about 1.5 

 cm in diameter. Flowers white, two or three at the apex of 

 each branchlet, their pedicels very stout, about 1.5 cm long, 

 black when dry, the subtending bracts oblong, obtuse, thickly 

 coriaceous 1.5 cm long. Calyx ovoid, about 3 cm long, the lobes 

 very thickly coriaceous, subelliptic, rounded, about 2.5 cm long, 

 the bracteoles ovate to oblong-ovate, obtuse, about 1.5 cm long. 

 Corolla somewhat campanulate, the tube up to 5 cm in length, 

 widened above, the lobes very thickly coriaceous, brittle when 

 dry, obovate, rounded, 4 to 5 cm long; anthers thick, about 8 

 mm long. 



Luzon, Laguna Province, Mount Banahao, For. Bur. 80^5 Curran & 

 Merritt, November 6, 1907 (type), altitude about 100 meters; Mount Ma- 

 quiling, For. Bur. 26897 Mabesa, September 8, 1917, altitude 200 to 300 

 meters: Cagayan Province, Mount Ababaca, For. Bur. 17217 Curran, March, 

 1909 (sterile). PoLlLLO, Bur. Sci. lOJfSO McGregor, flovirers only. 



This species, originally named Fagraea curranii in 1908, was not then 

 published, but was placed under Fagraea auriculata Jack to which it is 

 closely allied, but it differs from tho latter species in a number of characters, 

 notably in the obsolete or subobsolete lateral veins of its leaves. 



FAGRAEA MACGREGORII sp. nov. 



Ut videtur frutex scandens, F. longifiorae Merr. affinis, differt 

 foliis oblongo-obovatis, basi longe decurrentibus, calycibus sub 

 fructu quam fructibus brevioribus, haud accrescentibus. 



Apparently a vine, probably pseudo-parasitic, the branches 

 stout. Leaves coriaceous, rather pale when dry, oblong-obovate, 

 up to 70 cm in length and 25 cm in width, acute or slightly 

 acuminate, base gradually narrowed, decurrent along the 6 to 

 8 cm long petiole; lateral nerves 10 to 12 on each side of the 

 very stout midrib, prominent on the lower surface, reticulations 

 obsolete. Flowers unknown. Fruits crowded at the apices of 

 the branches, about 15 in a rather close, dense head, the subtend- 

 ing bracts ovate, acuminate, about 3 cm long. Fruit, when fresh, 



