17. 3 Merrill: Noteworthy Philippine Plants, XVI 283 



An erect shrub, about 2.5 m high, the inflorescences cinereous- 

 pubescent, the leaflets with few, scattered, somewhat tufted 

 cilia on the midrib beneath, the ultimate branches about 8 mm 

 in diameter. Leaves bipinnate, about 60 cm long, the pinnae 

 few, the lower ones usually 5-foliolate; leaflets chartaceous, el- 

 liptic to oblong-elliptic, 12 to 22 cm long, 6 to 10 cm wide, the 

 base usually broadly rounded, the apex rather abruptly acumi- 

 nate, the acumen slender, blunt, 1 to 1.5 cm long, margins dis- 

 tinctly toothed ; lateral nerves prominent, about 12 on each side 

 of the midrib, the reticulations distinct; petiolules 5 to 15 mm 

 long. Inflorescences lax, branched from near the base, up to 

 20 cm long and as wide as or somewhat wider than long, the 

 branches few, spreading. Flowers 5-merous, numerous, white 

 or somewhat yellowish, sessile or subsessile and somewhat 

 crowded at the tips of the ultimate branchlets, about 5.5 mm 

 long. Calyx cup-shaped, 2.5 mm long, 5-lobed, the lobes broadly 

 ovate, about 1 mm in length, glabrous. Petals oblong, 3 mm 

 long, obtuse to acute, recurved. Anthers 1.2 mm long. Fruits 

 depressed-globose, red when fresh, dark brown when dry, 6 to 8 

 mm in diameter, obscurely 5- or 6-sulcate when dry. 



Mindanao, Surigao Province, Bur. Sci. 3A550 Ramos & Pas- 

 casio. SlARGAO, Bur. Sci. 3A9Jf5 (type), 31^907 Ramos & Pas- 

 casio, May 27, 1919, in thickets and forests at low altitudes. 



This species in general appearance is not radically diflferent 

 from Leea indica (Burm. f.) Merr. and several other species 

 allied to the latter. The scattered ciliate hairs on the midrib be- 

 neath are a distinguishing character. 



STERCULIACEAE 



STERCULIA Linnaeus 

 STERCULIA GLABRI FOLIA sp. nov. 



Arbor glabra, vel ramulis junioribus leviter pubescens, ramis 

 circiter 5 mm diametro ; f oliis subcoriaceis, oblongis ad oblongo- 

 ellipticis, integris, 8 ad 22 cm longis, breviter obtuse acuminatis, 

 basi late rotundatis et distincte cordatis, nervis utrinque 8 ad 

 12, perspicuis; petiolo 4 ad 7 cm longo; inflorescentiis <J solita- 

 riis, glabris, axillaribus, anguste paniculatis, circiter 12 cm 

 longis, paucifloris; floribus 4-meris, extus glabris, intus dense 

 villosis, alabastro 7 ad 8 mm longo, lobis acutis, liberis. 



A tree, about 5 m high, entirely glabrous except the very young 

 tips of the branchlets and the inside of the calyx. Branches te- 



