412 MKKRILL. 



stellate-piibescent along the midrib, the lower surface rather densely 

 stellate-pubescent when young, becoming subglabrous in age; nerves 

 about 22 on each side of the midrib, parallel, distinct; petioles 8 to 11 

 cm long, straight, stellate-pubescent. Panicles slender, narrow, axillary, 

 20 to 30 cm long, densely stellate-pubescent, tlie branches scattered, 

 few, the longest ones scarcely exceeding 4 cm in length. Staminate 

 flowers crowded into dense sessile heads 4 to 5 mm in diameter, arranged 

 along the ultimate branchlets. Sepals 3, narrow, stellate-pubescent, 

 about 1 mm long. Petals twice as long as the sepalss. Stamens 3. 

 Pistillate flowers not seen. Fruit of three 1 to 1.5 cm long carpels, the 

 outside densely covered witli rather soft, 5 mm long, densely stellate- 

 tomentose processes. 



Camiguin (Babuyan Islands), Bur. 8ci. 4050 Fcnix, June 27, 1907, in thickets 

 near the seashore. 



A very characteristic species with the facies of Lutiasia amara Blanco, but at 

 once distinguished by its more pubescent leaves and its fruits being covered with 

 numerous, soft, stellate-tomentose processes abovit 5 mm long. 



Lunasia amara Blanco is very common and widely distributed in the Philip- 

 pines, and is rather variable in vegetative cluiracters. No representative of the 

 genus is known from outside of the Malayan region. 



MICROMELUM Blume. 



M. tephrocarpum Turcz. 



Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, S6Jp Fenix. Camiguin, 399Jf F^nix. 

 A form endemic to the Philippines, scarcely distinct from the widely distributed 

 Micromelnm puhescens Blume. 



MURRAYA Linn. 

 M. exotica Linn. 

 Camiguin, J/lUf F6nix. 



Common and widely distributed in the Philij)pines; tropical Asia to Formosa, 

 Malaya, Australia and Polynesia. 



M. crenulata Oliv. 



Sabtax, 37-'/2 Fcnix. 



A species known only from the Piiilii)i)iiies, not common. 



CITRUS Linn. 

 C. hystrix DC. 



Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3836 Fenix. N. v., Valatiuo. 

 Widely distribufed in the Pliilippinos ; British India (o Aralaya. 



melia(;e.io. 



CHISOCHETON Blunio. 



C. philippinus (Turcz.) Harms. 



Camiciin, JiO'/d F(nix. 



Conunon and widely dislribiHcd in (ho Philippines; ondomic. 



