PHILIPPINE CONNARACE.?^. 123 



A scandent shrub, glabrous except the inflorescence. Branches dark- 

 brown or grajash, somewhat lenticellate. Leaves alternate, odd-pinnate, 

 15 to 25 cm long, the rachis swollen at the base; leaflets 5, the lateral ones 

 opposite and smaller than the terminal one, subcoriaceous, glabrous, 

 shining, ovate-elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 6 to 11 cm long, 2.5 to 5 cm 

 wide, base acute or subacute, rarely somewhat rounded, margins entire, 

 sometimes recurved, apex strongly acuminate, the acumen blunt; nerves 

 4 or 5 on each side of the midrib, ascending, curved, laxly anastomosing, 

 prominent beneath, the reticulations very lax, the finer ones obsolete; 

 petiolules about 4 mm long. Panicles terminal and axillary, as long as 

 the leaves, densely ferruginous-pubescent, many-flowered. Sepals free, 

 oblong, obtuse or acute, pubescent, distinctly glandular-punctate, 4 to 5 

 mm long. Petals about the same length as the sepals, glabrous or sub- 

 glabrous, glandular-punctate, elliptic-ovate, obtuse. Stamens 10, alter- 

 nating long and short, glabrous, the longer filaments 1.5 mm in length. 

 Carpels 1, narrowly ovoid, densely pubescent; style very short, 0.5 mm 

 long, glabrous or nearly so. Follicles orange-yellow, somewhat obovoid, 

 2.5 cm long, inflated, firmly coriaceous, obtuse, the stipe short, outside 

 shining, glabrous, not striate, inside somewhat tomentose. 



Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens 154, September-October, 

 1906, and without number (type), March, 1907. 



9. Connarus whitfordii sp. nov. 



Frutex scandens, inflorescentiis exceptis glaber; foliis imparipinnatis, 

 10 ad 15 cm longis, foliolis 5, lateralibus suboppositis vel alternis, 

 oblongo-ellipticis vel oblongo-ovatis, firmiter membranaceis, nitidis, apice 

 sensim acuminatis, obtusis, basi subrotundatis, nervis utrinque 3 ad 5; 

 paniculis axillaribus terminalibusque, folia aequantibus vel multo longio- 

 ribus, dense brunneo-pubescentibus ; sepalis coriaceis, arcuatis, dense 

 pubescentibus ; petalis oblongo-linearibus, utrinque plus minus pubes- 

 centibus, glanduloso-punctatis ; staminibus 10, inaequalibus, filamentis 

 pubescentibus; carpellis ovoideis, pubescentibus; folliculis 2.5 cm longis, 

 inflatis, ellipsoideis, extus glabris, obscure reticulato-striatis, intus pubes- 

 centibus. 



A scandent shrub, glabrous except the inflorescence. Branches grayish- 

 brown, terete, lenticellate. Leaves alternate, 10 to 15 cm long, the 

 leaflets 5, the lateral ones subopposite or alternate, oblong-elliptic or 

 oblong-ovate, firmly membranaceous, shining, 4 to 7 cm long, 2 to 3 cm 

 wide, base usually rounded, apex gradually and prominently acuminate, 

 acumen obtuse, margins entire, recurved ; nerves 3 to 5 on each side of the 

 midrib, rather distinct beneath, the reticulations faint; petiolules about 

 2 mm long. Panicles axillary and terminal, equaling or much exceeding 

 the leaves, densely brown-pubescent, the liuds densely congested on the 

 ultimate branchlets. Sepals coriaceous, arched, oblong, 3 mm long, 

 pubescent, opaque. Petals linear-oblong, obtuse, somewhat pubescent on 

 both surfaces, glandular-punctate, 5.5 to 6 mm long, 1.2 mm wide, the 



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