NEW PHILirPIxXE PLiVNTS. 151 



pubescent; anthers narrowly oblong, scabrid, about 1.7 mm long, the cells 

 equal, obtuse, not at all produced and with no terminal tuft of hairs. 

 Ovary ovoid, densely villous, 3-celled; style villous below, attenuate, 

 about 4 mm long. Fruit narrowly ellipsoid or oblong-obovoid, red when 

 fresh, 2 to 3.5 cm long, about 1.3 cm thick, densely ferruginous-pubescent, 

 acute or obtuse, 1-celled, the walls thick and bone-like. 



Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens 910, April, Jamiary, 

 1907, also without numbers, May, June, and September, 1907. 



A species well characterized by its uniform and dense pubescence. 



MALVACE^. 



HIBISCUS Linn. 



Hibiscus paludosus Merrill sp. nov. § Fiircaria. 



Suffruticosus, erectus, omnibus partibus densissime f ulvo-hirsutis ; 

 ramis ramulis foliisque subtus ad nervos plus minus aculeatis; foliis 

 coriaceis, longe petiolatis, cordatis, 3- ad 5-lobatis, 5 ad 7 cm longis la- 

 tisque; floribus purpureis, axillaribus, pedunculatis, solitariis, ca. 5 cm 

 longis; bracteis 10, 1 ad 1.5 cm longis, linearibus, simplicibus. 



Suffrutescent, erect, branched, very densely fulvous-hirsute through- 

 out, the indumentum stellate. Branches terete, aculeate. Leaves orbic- 

 ular to ovate, 5 to 7 cm long and wide, base cordate, usually 3- to 5- 

 lobed, the lobes broad, ovate, acute, the margins denticulate, both surfaces 

 very densely fulvous-stellate-hirsute, beneath on the nerves with a few 

 scattered small spines, coriaceous; nerves distinct; petioles 10 cm long 

 or less, densely hirsute and more or less aculeate. Flowers axillary, sol- 

 itary, purple, their pedicels stout, about 5 mm long. Bracteoles 10, 

 linear, 1 to 1.5 cm long, simple, densely hirsute. Calyx lobes 1.5 cm 

 long, 6 or 7 mm wide at the base, gradually narrowed to the acuminate 

 apex, hispid, glandular, the mid-nerve and the lateral marginal ones very 

 prominent. Petals about 5 cm long, 2.5 cm wide, inequilaterally obovate, 

 much narrowed below, more or less hispid outside, densely so at the base 

 inside, strongly ai^out 15-nerved. Staminal column about 3 cm long, 

 antheriferous throughout; filaments 1.5 mm long; anthers 1 mm long. 

 Fruit ovoid, acuminate, about 1.5 cm long, densely hispid with long 

 fulvous hairs. Seeds glabrous or nearly so, more or less compressed, 

 angular, about 3 mm long. 



]Mi.\DAXAO, Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens Sl.'i, November, 1906, 

 also without niunbers, January and June, 1907, in swamps. 



A sjiecies manifestly allied to Hibisetis diversifolius Jacq., which is widely 

 distributed in the tropics, differing- from that species in its very dense, fulvous- 

 hirsute indumentum, its pedicellate flowers and in its strongly hirsute mature 

 fruits. 



