17, 3 Merrill: Noteworthy Philippine Plants, XVI 317 



to ovate-elliptic, rounded, about 7 mm long. Capsules slender, 

 up to 20 cm long, about 3 mm in diameter, glabrous. 



Pan AY, Mount Bulilao, Mount Salibongbong, and Libacao, 

 Bur. Sci. 35720 (type), 35392, 35535, 35588, 35676 Martelino 

 & Edano, June, 1919, in forests along streams, ascending to an 

 altitude of 600 meters. 



In general this species resembles, and is manifesty allied to, 

 Trichosporum truncatum Elm. and T. bakeri Merr. ; but the 

 caly:x is half as long as in the latter, while it differs from the 

 former in several characters. 



RUBIACEAE 

 TIMONIUS de CandoUe 

 TIMONIUS R0TUNDU3 sp. nov. 



Arbor glabra, circiter 5 m alta; foliis crasse coriaceis, late 

 elliptico-ovatis, nitidis, apice late rotundatis, basi subtruncatis 

 ad acutis, nervis utrinque 4 vel 5, valde perspicuis; infructes- 

 centiis axillaribus, pendunculatis, usque ad 10 cm longis, dicho- 

 tome ramosis, ramis primariis usque ad 7 cm longis; fructibus 

 sessilibus, depresso-globosis, glabris, 5 ad 8 mm diametro. 



A small glabrous tree, about 5 m high, the branchlets about 

 6 mm in diameter, marked with large petiolar scars. Leaves 

 thickly coriaceous, broadly elliptic-ovate, brownish-olivaceous 

 and shining when dry, the apex broadly rounded, base subtrun- 

 cate to acute; lateral nerves 4 or 5 on each side of the midrib, 

 very prominent, the reticulations fine, dense ; petioles about 4 cm 

 long ; stipules oblong-elliptic, rounded, about 2 cm long, deciduous, 

 Infructescences axillary, peduncled, up to 10 cm long, dichoto- 

 mously branched, the peduncles about 3 cm long, the primary 

 branches up to 7 cm in length, the secondary ones when present 

 shorter. Fruits sessile, arranged on one side of the primary or 

 secondary branches, depressed-globose, pale when dry, 5 to 8 mm 

 in diameter. 



DiNAGAT, Bur. Sci. 35176 Ramos & Pascasio, May 17, 1919, 

 in forests at low altitudes. 



A species apparently belonging in the group with Timonius 

 obovatus Elm. but with very differently shaped, much larger 

 leaves. 



TIMONIUS PANAYENSIS sp. nov. 



Arbor dioica, partibus junioribus inflorescentiisque ferru- 

 gineo pubescens; foliis variabilis, 12 ad 28 cm longis, coriaceis, 

 oblongis ad ovato-ellipticis vel obovato-ellipticis, breviter acum- 

 inatis, basi acutis, subtus leviter pubescens, nervis utrinque 



