20,4 Merrill: Noteworthy Philippine Plants, XVII 391 



in anthesis about 3 cm long, the buds subsessile or shortly 

 pediceled. Each flower is subtended by an oblong-elliptic, 

 membranaceous, cinereous-pubescent bract which is supplied 

 also with few, scattered, stinging, brown hairs, and is about 

 3 cm long and 12 mm wide, and by two similar but smaller 

 bracteoles about 2.5 cm long and 8 mm wide, the bracts and 

 bracteoles deciduous. Calyx broadly cup-shaped, cinereous- 

 pubescent with numerous, brown, stinging hairs, the tube 

 ,^ about 1 cm long, the upper lobe broadly ovate, obtuse, 4 to 5 

 mm long, the lower lip 3-lobed, the lobes narrowly lanceolate, 

 acuminate, the two lateral ones 5 to 7 mm long, the middle 

 one up to 1 cm in length. Standard oblong-ovate, obtuse, 4 cm 

 long, 2 cm wide, glabrous; wings oblong, obtuse, 7 cm long, 

 1.5 cm wide, shortly clawed, the basal auricle oblong, obtuse, 

 2.5 mm long, somewhat pubescent near the base; keel equaling 

 the wings, 1 cm wide (folded), slightly curved above, acute. 

 Stamens glabrous, all parts free; filaments about 10 mm long. 

 Ovary oblong, 10 mm long, densely hirsute with long hairs; 

 style appressed-hirsute. 



Samar, Catubig River, Bur. Sci. 2^341 Ramos, February, 1916. 

 In damp forests along the margins of old clearings at low alti- 

 tudes; locally known as malanipai. 



This species belongs in the section Zoopthalmum and prob- 

 ably in the subsection Citta, although fruiting material is neces- 

 sary to verify this. Striking characters are its membranaceous, 

 glabrous leaflets; its short-peduncled inf ructescences ; its mem- 

 branaceous, conspicuous, deciduous bracts and bracteoles; and 

 its purplish-black flowers. 



RUTACEAE 



EVODIA Forster 

 EVODIA CONFUSA sp. nov. 



Evodia glabra F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 34; Vidal Rev. PI. Vase. 

 Filip. (1886) 74; Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci, 1 (1906) Suppl. 68, 

 Sp. Blancoanae (1918) 293, non Blume. 



Arbor 5 ad 10 m alta, inflorescentiis exceptis glabra; ramulis 

 incrassatis; foliis 3-foliolatis, foliolis oblongo-ellipticis ad ob- 

 ovatis, coriaceis vel subcoriaceis, nitidis, 15 ad 25 cm longis, 

 breviter acuminatis, basi acutis, subtus punctatis, nervis utrinque 

 12 ad 15, perspicuis; cymis axillaribus, 10 ad 15 cm longis, 

 usque ad 15 cm latis, pedunculatis, multifloris; floribus albidis; 

 fructibus circiter 1 cm diametro, 4-coccis, coccis subovoideis, 

 leviter compressis. 



