17,3 Merrill: Noteworthy Philippine Plants, XVI 247 



its scabrous leaves. The collector gives the height of the tree 

 as 25 meters with a trunk diameter of 1 meter. 



MORACEAE 



PHYLLOCHLAMYS Bureau 



PHYLLOCHLAMYS TAXOIDES (Heyne) Koord. Exkursionsfl. Java 2 

 (1912) 89, var. PARVi FOLIA var. nov. 



A rigid, branched, spiny shrub, 1 to 3 m high, entirely gla- 

 brous. Leaves chartaceous, oblong to elliptic-oblong or oblong- 

 lanceolate, entire or with one or two teeth near their tips, acute 

 to slightly acuminate, 2 to 4 cm long, 1 to 2.3 cm wide, the 

 nerves not prominent. Pistillate flowers solitary, their pedicels 

 about 4 mm long, each with a pair of bracteoles at about the 

 middle, these ovate, obtuse, about 1 mm long. Sepals 4, in 

 anthesis 4 to 8 mm long, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, not 

 reticulate, slenderly acuminate, pale-green when fresh. 



Palawan, Lake Manguao, Merrill 9Jf82, April 27, 1913, on 

 steep, dry, forested banks, altitude about 70 meters. 



This is the first record for Phyllochlamys as Philippine, the 

 form above described differing from the typical Indian P. tax- 

 oides (Heyne) Koord. (P. spinosa Bureau) in its much smaller, 

 not prominently nerved, entire or only slightly toothed leaves. 

 It may ultimately prove to be specifically distinct, as it is rather 

 different from the single Indian specimen I have for examina- 

 tion, Wight 817. The species is widely distributed in India, 

 but is reported from the Malay Archipelago only from Timor. 



PROTEACEAE 



HELICIA Loureiro 

 HELICIA PAUCINERVIA sp. nov. 



Arbor parva glabra; foliis coriaceis, oblongo-ellipticis, utrin- 

 que angustatis, basi acutis vel leviter decurrentibus, apice obtusis 

 vel obtuse acuminatis, usque ad 14 cm longis, sursum distanter 

 dentatis, vel integris, pagina superiore valde nitidis, nervis 

 utrinque circiter 5, perspicuis; racemis lateralibus, e axillis 

 defoliatis, circiter 20 cm longis; floribus solitariis vel binis, 2 

 cm longis. 



A glabrous tree, about 5 m high, the branches dark reddish- 

 brown. Leaves coriaceous, oblong-elliptic, narrowed to the 

 acute or somewhat decurrent base and to the obtuse or bluntly 

 acuminate apex, 10 to 14 cm long, 4.5 to 6 cm wide; the margins 

 distantly and rather coarsely toothed above or sometimes entire. 



