17. 3 Merrill: Noteworthy Philippine Plants, XVI 249 



lobes broadly ovate, reticulate, 6 mm long and 8 mm wide, sta- 

 mens 6, free, the filaments about 1 mm in length. Capsules 

 slender, somewhat torulose when dry, about 4 cm long and 4 

 mm in diameter. 



Mindanao, Surigao Province, Bur. Sci. 34811 (type), 34369 

 Ramos & Pascasio, April and May, 1919, in forests along small 

 streams at low altitudes. To this species I also refer Merrill 

 10490 from Alabat and Bur. Sci. 13370 Ramos from Tayabas 

 Province, Luzon, both of which were originally identified as 

 Bragantia affinis Planch. 



The alliance of this species is manifestly with Bragantia 

 affinis Planch., a species definitely known only from Panay. 

 It is distinguished from the latter especially by its much shorter 

 petioles. 



MENISPERMACEAE 



FIBRAUREA Loureiro 



FIBRAUREA CHLOROLEUCA Miers in Ann. Nat. Hist. Ill 13 (1864) 

 489; Diels in Engl. Pflanzenreich 46 (1910) 120, /. 43. 



DiNAGAT, Bur. Sci. 35224, 35229 Ramos & Pascasio, May 12, 

 1919, in forests along small streams at low altitudes. 



This is the first record of this genus as Philippine, the speci- 

 mens cited above coming well within the range of variation of 

 Miers's species as represented by ample material before me from 

 Borneo, Sumatra, Java, and the Malay Peninsula, although the 

 inflorescences are 30 cm in length; the longest inflorescence 

 on the extra-Philippine material available for comparison is 25 

 cm, while Diels gives the maximum as 20 cm. The species ex- 

 tends from Burma, through Malaya, to Celebes. 



MAGNOLIACEAE 



TALAUMA Jussieu 

 TALAUMA RETICULATA sp. nov. 



Arbor glabra, pedunculis ramulisque exceptis glabra; foliis 

 anguste oblongis ad oblongo-oblanceolatis, 24 ad 34 cm longis, 

 5 ad 7.5 cm latis, crasse coriaceis, nitidis, deorsum angustatis, 

 basi cuneatis, apice acutis vel breviter acuminatis, nervis utrin- 

 que circiter 14, cum reticulis valde perspicuis; carpellis ut vi- 

 detur paucis 1.5 ad 3 cm longis, 1 ad 1.5 cm latis, obtusis, baud 

 rostratis. 



A small tree, glabrous except the peduncles and very young 

 branchlets, the latter about 5 mm in diameter. Leaves nar- 

 rowly oblong to oblong-oblanceolate, 24 to 34 cm long, 5 to 7.5 



