NOTES. ON PHILIPPINE BOTANY. 113 



STERCULIACE.E. 



PTEROSPERMUM Sclireb. 



Pterospermum Cumingii Merrill & Rolfe isp. nov. 



Arbor vel arbuscula; I'oliis ol)l()iigis, leviter acuiuinatis, jjasi sub- 

 aequalibiis vel leviter inaeqiialibus, rotundatis, supra glabris, subtiis dense 

 ferruo-ineo-pid)eriilis, 4 ad 8 cm longis, 3 ad 3.5 cm latis; fructibus 

 oblongis, cjdindricis, circiter 3 cm longis, breviter apieulatis. 



A tree or slirul), the branches terete, the older ones grayish, glabrous, 

 the younger ones densely ferruginous-puberulent as are the ^^etioles, under 

 surfaces of the leaves, and the fruits. Leaves ol)long, -t to 8 cm long, 

 3 to 3.5 cm wide, subcoriaceous, glal)roiis and shining above, beneath 

 densely ferruginous-pulxn'ulent, the apex short and bluntly acuminate, 

 the base rounded, subequal or slightly oblique; nerves prominent beneath, 

 the basal ones 3, with sometimes an additional faint suljuuirginal pair, 

 the primary lateral ones, above the base, 4 on each side of the midrid, the 

 reticulations nearly obsolete; petioles puberulent, 1 to 1.8 cm long. 

 Fruit 2.5 to 3 cm long, cylindrical, al)Out 1.8 em in diameter, the base 

 abruptly contracted into a short stout cylindrical pseudostalk, the apex 

 short-apiculate, the outside very densely ferruginous-pu).)erulent. Seeds, 

 inchuling the wings, about 1.7 cm long. 



Philippines, without locality, Cuming 1860, in Herb. Kew. 

 A species allied to P. niveuni Vidal and to P. obliquum Blanco, differing from 

 botli in its nearly inequilateral leaves and other characters. 



THEACE^E. 



SCHIMA Reinw. 



Schima Noronhae Reinw. ex Blume Cat. Gew. Buitenzorg (1823) 80; Bijdr. 

 (1825) i:5(); Forbes & Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 23 (1886) 80. 



Palaw.\n, ;Mount Pulgar, For. Bur. 3881 Currun, February, 190G. 



Eastern India to southern China and the Malayan region; new .to the Philip- 

 pines. 



TERNSTROEMIA Linn. 



Ternstroemia Toquian (Blanco) F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 18. 



Llanosia Toquinii Blanco Fl. Filip. ed 2 (1845) 319. 



Ternstroemia Lobbiana Pierre Fl. Forest. Cochinch. (1887) pi. liS, in note. 



Ternstroemia penangiana Ceron Cat. PI. Herb. (1892) 22, non Choisy. 



A species common and widely distributed in the Philippines, extending from 

 700 to 1,500 m alt., here enumerated to call attention to the reduction of Pierre's 

 species and to correct the identification in Ceron's Catalogo. 



Celebes. 



