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without definite locality, but probably from Zambales Province, Cuming 

 1071. 



This characteristic species is apparently allied to Erycibe laevigata Wall. 

 The specimens are uniformly brown or purplish-brown when dry, giving 

 the species a distinctly characteristic appearance. The terminal panicles 

 are sometimes supplied with greatly reduced leaves. The species is dedi- 

 cated to Doctor C. S. Sargent, Director of the Arnold Arboretum, for whom 

 the Adduru collection was made. 



IPOMOEA Linnaeus 



IPOMOEA DIVERSI FOLIA R. Br. Prodr. (1810) 487; Benth. Fl. Austral. 

 4 (1867) 416; Bailey Queensland Flora 4 (1901) 1058. 



Luzon, Ilocos Norte Province, Bangui, Bur. Sci. 27589 Ramos, February 

 26, 1917, in grasslands at low altitudes. 



This identification has been made entirely from the descriptions cited, 

 with which the specimens apparently agree perfectly. The species is 

 known otherwise only from the islands in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia. 

 In the Philippine form the ovaries are 3-celled, the flowers about 5 cm 

 long, violet and white according to Ramos, solitary. The leaves closely 

 approximate those of Ipomoea coptica (Linn.) Roth (/. dissecta Willd.), 

 but the flowers are very much larger than in the latter species. 



VERBENACEAE 



CALLICARPA Linnaeus 

 CALLICARPA PLATYPHYLLA sp. nov. 



Arbor circiter 8 m alta; foliis subcoriaceis, magnis, usque 

 ad 50 cm longis et 20 cm latis, integris, tenuiter subcaudato-acu- 

 minatis, basi acutis, supra glabris, olivaceis, subtus pallidis, 

 nitidis, densissime implexo-puberulis, indumento haud stellato, 

 nervis utrinque circiter 12, cum reticulis valde prominentibus ; 

 cymis dichotomis, pedunculatis, circiter 7 cm longis, stellato- 

 tomentosis; calycis truncatis, glabris, 3 cm diametro. 



A tree about 8 m high, the branches 1 cm in diameter or less, 

 glabrous, somewhat 4-angled, the branchlets densely puberulent 

 with pale, dirty-brown indumentum. Leaves subcoriaceous, 

 oblong-elliptic to obovate-elliptic, entire, slenderly subcaudate- 

 acuminate, base acute, 35 to 50 cm long, 18 to 20 cm wide, the 

 upper surface glabrous, olivaceous, shining, the lower very dense- 

 ly covered with minute, matted, pale, puberulent hairs, the indu- 

 mentum not stellate, the whole lower surface pale-brownish, shin- 

 ing, the individual hairs not evident under an ordinary lens; 

 lateral nerves about 12 on each side of the midrib, very prom- 

 inent on the lower surface as are the subparallel primary reti- 

 culations, curved, anastomosing; petioles stout, densely puberu- 

 lent, angled, 4 to 5 cm long. Cymes axillary, peduncled, rather 

 densely stellate-pubescent with pale hairs, dichotomous, about 7 



