1-2S 



4. ARGOSTEMMA Wall. 



]. A. neesianum Walp. Nov. Act. Acad. Cur. 19 (1S4;5) Suppl. 1 : :!40. 



(3126 Merrill) October; (6657 Elmer) Xovember; (97, 183, 435 WItitford) 

 April, June; (290 CopeUuHl) January. On damp messy ledges ak)ng streams 

 100 to 600 m. Endemic. 



5. WENDLANDIA I'.artl. 



1. Wendlandia brachyantha Merrill, sp. nov. 



A ^^llrul) or small tree about 5 m. high. Branches brown, glabrous, striate, 

 the younger parts often densely ferruginous pubescent. Leaves oblong ovate to 

 ovate lanceolate, coriaceous, entirely glabrous, or -the midrib beneath somewhat 

 l)ubescent, 9 to 12 cm. long, 3 to 5 cm. wide, brown when dry. shining on both 

 surfaces but somewhat paler beneath, entire, short acuminate, the base acute or 

 obscurely rounded; nerves prominent beneath, 10 to 12 pairs; petioles 1 to 1.5 cm. 

 long, pubescent or glabrous; stipules entire. Panicles terminal, pyramidal, many 

 (lowered, 12 to 15 cm. long, very densely ferrugiiujus pubescent in anthesis. 

 becoming more or less glabrous in infrutescence, the lower branches about 5 

 cm. long, the upper gradually shorter. Flowers white, .sessile or short pedi- 

 celled, about 4 mm. long, each subtended by one or two linear pubescent 

 bracteoles. Calyx cup-shaped, 1.7 mm. long, densely ])ube.scent, 5-toothed, the 

 teeth short, acute. Corolla, including the lobes, 3 mm. long, glabrous or with 

 few ciliate hairs on the imier side of the corolla lobes, the tube about 2 mm. 

 long, the 5 lobes elliptical, rounded, reflexed, about 1 mm. long. Stamens equal- 

 ing the corolla lobes; anthers 1 mm. long. Style 2 mm. long, glabrous; stigmas 

 obovoid. Fruit ovoid or subglobose, about 2 mm. in diameter, pubescent with 

 few short scattered hairs, crowned by the persistent calyx lobes. 



(449 Whitford) Julj% 1904 (type). On exposed ridges in the mossy forests 

 at 1.100 m. Also No. 3834 Merrill, i\lount Arayat, Province of Pampanga, Luzon, 

 May, 1904, at an altitude of 870 m. 



A species at once distinguishable from Wciidlaiidia liizoiiicnsis DC., by its 

 smaller glabrous lea\('s and very short flowers. W<iidl(<ndi<i paiiiciihihi I'^lmcr, 

 in herb., non 1)(". 



6. UNCARIA Schreb. 



1. U. sp. 



{ ]\'hil furd ) . In thickets below KM) ni.. sterile s|iecinieii. 



7. NAUCLEA Linn. 



1. N. media Haviland, Journ. Linn. Soc. Itot. 33 (1897) 56. 



(3125 Merrill) October; (2817 Meyer) March. In forests, river canon 100 to 

 4.')() III. I'jideinic. 



2. N. philippinensis (Nid.) Haviland 1. c. 52. 



(2625 Meyer) February; (1158 Mhilford) .Alarch. In forests 600 to 900 m. 

 Endemic. 



8. SARCOCEPHALUS Af/.el. 



1. S. cordatus .Mi(|.; Haviland 1. c. 27. 



(:i74 Whilford) .lune; (727. 12(;3. 13Sr.. l;{<tl. 156S liordm) May to August, 

 in thickets and forests lielow 150 in., widely distriluited in tlie I'hilippiiU's. 

 Southeastern A>ia to Malaya ami Australia. 'I'.. Hiinciil. 



9. MUSS/ENDA l.imi. 



I. M. grandiflora (.Meyen) Kolle. .loiii n. i.iiiii. Soc. Hot. 21 (1SS4| .".U. 

 ((I(>!I5 /.eihrifi) .lulv: (\220 Borden) June: (388,524 Wliitfonh .Iuik-, July: 



