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This species is radically different from known Philippine 

 representatives of the genus both in its membranaceous leaves 

 and in its lax, few-flowered, slenderly peduncled inflorescences. 

 It is apparently most closely allied to Pycnarrhena cauliflora 

 Diels, but differs from that species in numerous -characters, 

 especially in its smaller leaves which are acute at the base and 

 slenderly acuminate at the apex, with fewer nerves than in 

 Diels's species. The number cited above was distributed under 

 the generic name Fibrua/rea. 



ANONACEAE 

 GONIOTHALAMUS Hooker f. and Thomson 

 Q0NI0THALAMU8 PUNCTICULIFOLIUS sp. nov. 



Frutex vel arbor parva, ramis tenuibus, glabris, ramulis le- 

 viter adpresse cupreo-pubescentibus ; foliis chartaceis, anguste 

 oblongis, 8 ad 12 cm longis, nitidis, glabris vel subtus ad costa 

 leviter pubescentibus, acutis vel leviter acuminatis, basi acutis, 

 subtus minutissime rubro-puncticulatis, nervis utrinque circiter 

 10, tenuibus, reticulis laxis, obscuris ; floribus axillaribus, soli- 

 tariis, circiter 2 cm longis; sepalis late ovatis, 6 mm longis, 

 leviter cupreo-pubescentibus; petalis valde incrassatis, utrinque 

 pubescentibus, exterioribus 2 cm longis, oblongo-ovatis ad 

 oblongo-lanceolatis, acutis, interioribus conniventibus, oblongo- 

 ovatis, 1.5 cm longis, acutis; carpellis circiter 12, pubescentibus, 

 stylis glabris, quam carpellis duplo longioribus; ovulis paucis. 



A subglabrous shrub or small tree, the branches terete, slenr 

 der, rugose, dark-colored when dry, the very young branchlets 

 and buds sparingly appressed-pubescent with cupreous hairs. 

 Leaves chartaceous, narrowly oblong, 8 to 12 cm long, 2 to 3 

 cm wide, the upper surface pale-olivaceous, strongly shining, 

 smooth, the lower surface somewhat paler, minutely reddish- 

 puncticulate, glabrous on both surfaces or the midrib beneath 

 sparingly appressed-pubescent, the apex acute to slightly acu- 

 minate, the base acute ; lateral nerves slender, about 10 on each 

 side of the midrib, not prominent, arched-anastomosing, the 

 reticulations lax, indistinct; petioles about 5 mm long, the 

 younger ones ^sparingly cupreous-pubescent, in age glabrous. 

 Flowers axillary, solitary, about 2 cm long, yellow, slightly 

 fragrant, their pedicels 1 cm long or less, appressed cupreous- 

 pubescent, subtended by 2 or 3 ovate, obtuse, pubescent, 2-mm 

 long bracts. Sepals broadly ovate, acute to obtuse, about 

 mm long, reticulate in transmitted light, sparingly cupreous- 



