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and fruits densely castaneous-pubescent, the leaflets beneath 

 densely ferruginous-pubescent. Leaves about 30 cm long, the 

 leaflets usually 7, alternate, coriaceous, oblong-elliptic, somewhat 

 acuminate, base rounded, 11 to 18 cm long, 5 to 7 cm wide, the 

 upper surface greenish, more or less pubescent with deciduous 

 pale hairs; lateral nerves usually 7 on each side of the midrib, 

 prominent on the lower surface, anastomosing, the reticulations 

 rather lax ; petiolules 5 to 8 mm long, densely castaneous-pubes- 

 cent. Panicles terminal, in fruit up to 25 cm long, the primary 

 branches up to 15 cm long. Fruits compressed, obovate, slightly 

 inaequilateral, about 6 cm long and 4 cm wide, externally very 

 densely castaneous-pubescent, inside sparingly villous with pale 

 hairs. 



Luzon, Camarines Province, Paracale, Bur Sci. 33600 Ramos 

 & Edano, November 30, 1918, in damp forests at low altitudes, 

 the fruits red, the lower surface of the fresh leaves red. 



A species strongly characterized by the dense castaneous indu- 

 mentum on the branchlets, petioles, infructescences, and fruits; 

 and by the leaflets being densely ferruginous-pubescent on the 

 lower surface and reddish-brown in contrast with the green 

 upper surface. The indumentum is composed entirely of simple 

 hairs, 



ROUREA Aublet 

 ROUREA LUZONIENSIS sp. nov. 



Frutex scandens, glaber; foliis circiter 10-foliolatis, 8 ad 12 

 cm longis, foliolis 2 ad 4 cm longis, subcoriaceis, ovatis ad ob- 

 longo-ellipticis, obtusis vel obscure breviterque acuminatis, basi 

 plerumque rotundatis; infructescentiis axillaribus, solitariis, ra- 

 cemosis,''8 ad 10 cm longis, fructibus paucis, tenuiter pedicella- 

 tis, subaequilateralibus, oblongo-ovoideis, 8 ad 10 mm longis. 



A scandent glabrous shrub, about 3 m high. Leaves 8 to 12 

 cm long, about 10-f oliolate ; leaflets subopposite and alternate, 

 subcoriaceous, ovate to oblong-elliptic, 2 to 4 cm long, 1.2 to 2.3 

 cm wide, base rounded, usually somewhat inequilateral, apex ob- 

 tuse to shortly acuminate, both surfaces rather pale when dry, 

 shining. Inflorescences axillary, solitary, racemose, 8 to 10 cm 

 long, few-flowered. Fruits oblong-ovoid, nearly equilateral, 

 acute or slightly apiculate, 8 to 10 mm long, their pedicels 6 to 

 10 mm long. Persistent sepals broadly ovate, glabrous, the 

 outer ones acute or slightly acuminate, the inner ones broadly 

 rounded, about 3.5 mm long. 



Luzon, Camarines Province, Paracale, Bur. Sci. 33534 Ramos 

 & Edano, November 29, 1918, in dry thickets at low altitudes. 



