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oblong-oblanceolate, subcoriaceous, rather pale and shining when 

 dry, 16 to 20 cm long, 3.5 to 7 cm wide, base acute, apex distinctly- 

 acuminate, the acumen 1 cm long or less, blunt; lateral nerves 

 12 to 14 on each side of the midrib, distinct, curved, anastomos- 

 ing, the reticulations slender; petioles reddish-brown, about 8 

 m.m long. Hooks rather stout, strongly recurved, about 2 cm to 

 the bend, glabrous. Flowers yellow, solitary, about 5 cm in dia- 

 meter, their pedicels densely pubescent, 2 to 2.5 cm long. Sepals 

 coriaceous, narrowly ovate, obtuse, densely pubescent, about 11 

 mm long and 8 mm wide. Petals spreading above the united 

 portions, the flowers about 5 cm in diameter, coriaceous, rather 

 densely pubescent on both surfaces, the outer ones ovate to 

 elliptic-ovate, obtuse, about 3 cm long and 2 cm wide, the inner 

 ones obovate, about 2.5 cm long and 1.5 cm wide, obtuse or 

 obtusely acuminate, the inflated base formed by the united lower 

 parts of the petals about 8 mm in diameter. Stamens indefinite, 

 2 mm long. Carpels about 14, oblong, about 2 mm long, 

 pubescent. 



Luzon, Cagayan Province, Peiiablanca, Addiiru 136, May 28, 

 1917, Bur. Sci. 22719 Castillo, April 24, 1915, on forested slopes 

 at low altitudes. 



A species well characterized among the Philippine forms by 

 its unusually large flowers and broad petals. 



GONIOTHALAMUS Hooker f. and Thomson 

 GONIOTHALAMUS LANCIFOLIUS sp. nov. 



Arbor circiter 7 m alta, novellis et floribus exceptis glabra; 

 foliis lanceolatis, chartaceis, usque ad 33 cm longis et 5 cm latis, 

 nitidissimis, acuminatis, basi acutis, nervis utrinque 25 ad 30, 

 distinctis; floribus axillaribus et caulinis, solitariis, tcnuiter 

 pedunculatis, petalis exterioribus ovato-lanceolatis ad oblongo- 

 lanceolatis, 7 ad 8 cm longis, acuminatis, extus ad basi dense 

 fulvo-pubescentibus, interioribus circiter 1.2 cm longis, den- 

 sissime pallide pubescentibus. 



A tree, about 7 m high, entirely glabrous except the growing 

 tips of the branchlets and parts of the flowers. Branches terete, 

 pale brownish, glabrous. Leaves chartaceous, lanceolate, 19 to 

 33 cm long, 3 to 4 cm wide, the upper surface greenish olivaceous, 

 very strongly shining, the lower somewhat brownish, the apex 

 slenderly acuminate, base acute; primary lateral nerves 25 to 30 

 on each side of the midrib, slender, distinct, anastomosing, the 

 reticulations lax; petioles about 8 mm long. Flowers 7 to 8 cm 

 long, greenish-yellow, dark-brown when dry, odorless, solitary, 

 axillary and from tubercles on the trunk, their pedicels 2.5 to 3 



