

70 Robinson : Alabastra philippinensia 



carpels 50 or more, stellate-tomentose, at anthesis about 3 mm. 

 long, enlarging later, each containing 8-10 ovules: fruit not seen. 

 Climbing and twining over trees, its stems 5-6 cm. in diameter, 

 wood yellowish, bark of older portions light- to dark-gray, some- 

 what furrowed, bark of younger branches yellowish-gray, scaly, 

 elongating into furrows, younger portions ferruginous-tomentose, 

 becoming glabrous : leaves borne on petioles 3-7 mm. long, 

 elliptic to obovate, subcordate to acute at the base, somewhat 

 abruptly contracted at the apex into an acumen 1.5-2 cm. long 

 in mature leaves, 15-25 cm. long, 7.5-9.5 cm. wide, bluish-green 

 above, paler beneath, glabrous above except upon the somewhat 

 immersed ferruginous-pubescent midrib and primary veins, minutely 

 tomentose beneath; primary veins 12-15 on ea °h s ^e of the mid- 

 rib, oblique, arching near the margin, secondary veins anastomos- 

 ing, somewhat conspicuous. 



Type collected at Santa Cruz, Province of Davao, Mindanao, 



by R. S. Williams, no. 2764, with flowers in all stages, May 5, 

 1905. 



SABIACEAE 

 Sabia philippinensis sp. nov. 



Flowers green, small, in terminal or subterminal compound 

 cymes: pedicels slender, 2-4 mm. long, calyx about 1.2 mm. 

 long, united for about three-fourths of its length, its lobes 5, ovate, 

 obtuse : petals white, 5, opposite the calyx-lobes, and exceeding 

 them in length : stamens 5, opposite the petals and calyx-lobes, 

 about 1 mm. long, comparatively thick : ovary 1, exserted : fruit bac- 

 cate, 1.5 cm. long and nearly 1 cm. in diameter, tipped by the 

 persistent stigma, 2-celled. 



A glabrous woody vine, with stems over 6 m. long and I— 1-5 

 cm. in diameter, climbing over trees: the older parts of the stem 

 with light-gray bark, young shoots zigzag with striate yellowish- 

 green bark: petioles 6-10 mm. long, slender, grooved on the 

 upper surface ; leaves alternate, entire, or somewhat wavy on the 

 margins, olivaceous on the upper surface, green beneath, lanceo- 

 late or oblong-lanceolate, acute at the base, acute or acuminate 

 and usually mucronate at the apex, primary veins on each side o( 

 the midrib about 12, arched-anastomosing, secondary and tertiary 

 venation also conspicuous especially beneath, one or two submar- 

 ginal veins present. 



Type collected near Baguio, Province of Benguet, northern 

 Luzon, by R. S. Williams, no. T44S, with young flowers and 

 fruit, November 8, 1904. 







