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cm long and 9 cm wide, the bracts linear-lanceolate, 4 to 5 mm 

 long, the bracteoles numerous, similar to the bracts but about 

 1 mm long. Calyx truncate, cup-shaped, 3 mm in diameter, 

 glabrous or nearly so. Fruits globose, about 3.5 mm in diameter. 



Luzon, Cagayan Province, Pamplona, For. Bur. 26967 Velasco, August 

 9, 1917, in forests, altitude about 50 meters. 



A most remarkable species, well characterized by its very large, entire, 

 slenderly acuminate leaves which are glabrous above and densely matted- 

 puberulent on the lower surface with a pale-brownish, shining, non-stellate 

 indumentum; glands, if present, are entirely obscured by the indumentum. 



VITEX Linnaeus 



VITEX CELEBICA Koord. Meded. Lands Plantent, 19 (1898) 560, 645. 



Mindanao, Cotabato District, For. Bur. 6548 Hutchinson, March, 1907, 

 For. Bur. 15^20 Pray, March, 1910: Zamboanga District, Siag River, 

 For. Bur. 13383 Foxworthy, DeMesa, & Villamil, May 29, 1912; Butuan 

 Subprovince, Amparo, For. Bur. 207 U6 Rafael & Ponce, October 10, 1913: 

 Davao District, Mount Apo, Elmer 11602, September, 1909, distributed as 

 V. pentaphylla Merr. 



A species previously known only from Celebes, our Philippine material 

 agreeing closely with the description and with Celebes specimens in all 

 essential characters. In Cotabato it is known as calipapa-aso, molave-aso, 

 calipapa, and calipapa-madam ; and in Zamboanga as limpapa and himulauin. 



SOLANACEAE 



SOLAN UM Linnaeus 

 SOLAN UM LUZONIENSEsp. nov. 



Frutex erectus, ramosus, 0.5 ad 1 m altus, plus minusve pal- 

 lide stellato-tomentosus, ramis teretibus aculeis sparsis rectis 

 circiter 2 mm longis armatis; foliis membranaceis, oblongis, 

 integris, in siccitate subolivaceis, acuminatis, basi acutis, plerum- 

 que obscure inaequilateralibus, nervis utrinque circiter 5, te- 

 nuibus, curvatis, anastomosantibus ; cymis extra-axillaribus ter- 

 minalibusque, circiter 3 cm longis, breviter pedunculatis, stellato- 

 tomentosis; floribus extus stellato-tomentosis, circiter 8 mm 

 longis, violaceis; fructibus globosis, glabris, carnosis, inermis, 

 coccineis, circiter 6 mm diametro. 



An erect, branched, sparingly aculeate, more or less stellate- 

 tomentose shrub or undershrub 0.5 to 1 m high, the branches 

 terete, reddish-brown, sparingly cinereous-stellate-tomentose, 

 with scattered, straight, sharp spines about 2 mm in length, the 

 young branchlets rather densely stellate-tomentose. Leaves al- 

 ternate, membranaceous, subolivaceous when dry, slightly shin- 

 ing, the lower surface paler than the upper and more pubescent, 

 oblong, entire or obscurely undulate, acuminate, base usually 



