16 



the lobes 3 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, obtuse, 3-nerved. Fertile stamens 9, 

 the anthers 1 mm. long, filament 0.5 mm. long; sterile stamens 3 mm. 

 long, pubescent. Ovary sparingly pubescent, the style simple, 2 mm. 

 long. 



Type specimen No. 335 (Forestry Bureau), collected by Barnes, Lamao 

 River, Province of Bataan, Luzon, February, 1904. A tree reaching a 

 diameter of 40 cm., with gray bark and white wood, growing in the 

 hill forests at an altitude of about 100 m. above the sea. T., Terukan. 



CKASSULACE.E. 



Sedum australis sp. nov. 



A slender, succulent, erect or suberect, simple or sparingly branched 

 glabrous biennial ( ? ) , from slender roots, with oblanceolate obovate or 

 spathulate leaves 2 cm. long or less, and few (three to seven) flowered 

 terminal, once or twice branched cymes, the flowers 5-partite. Leaves 

 5 to 20 mm. long, 3 to 6 mm. wide, entire, obtuse, alternate, fleshy. 

 Flowers short pedicelled, the branches of the cyme 1 cm. long or less, 

 each flower subtended by a rosette of three or four reduced leaves, hermaph- 

 rodite, golden yellow, 5 to 6 mm. long. Sepals oblong, 2.5 to 4 mm. 

 long, 1 mm. wide, obtuse. Petals 5, ovate-lanceolate, 5 to 6 mm. long, 

 acute or acuminate. Stamens 10, the filaments 5 to 4 mm. long, the anthers 

 elliptical or subglobose, 0.5 mm. long. Carpels 5, ovate, acuminate, 5 

 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide, more or less divaricate when mature, marked 

 with few purplish dashes, the style less than 1 mm. long. Seeds 12 to 

 15 in each carpel, oblong, cylindrical, minutely apiculate, minutely punctate 

 throughout, 0.8 mm. long, 0.3 mm. in diameter. 



Type specimen No. 6568 (A. D. E. Elmer), Mount Santo Tomas, Prov- 

 ince of Benguet, Luzon, June, 1904. No. 6314 (Elmer), Baguio, Benguet, 

 May, 1904, is the same. A species growing in wet rock crevices, etc., from 

 1,500 to 2,500 m. above the sea. 



No species of this genus has previously been reported from the Philipines, 

 nor is the genus represented in the Malayan region, and therefore the 

 discovery of this species in northern Luzon is especially interesting, as 

 the genus is charactisteric of the north temperate zone. A single species, 

 Sedum formosanum N. E. Br., is known from the Island of Formosa to the 

 north of Luzon. 



SAXIFEAGACE.E. 



Polyosma philippinensis sp. nov. 



A small tree, with usually oblong-lanceolate, nearly glabrous, membra- 

 nous, remotely glandular-toothed, or subentire leaves, and terminal recemes 

 12 to 20 cm. long. Branches grayish or reddish-brown, striate, glabrous, 

 the tips densely yellowish-brown pubescent. Leaves opposite, 8 to 13 

 cm. long, 2 to 5 em. wide, the apex rather slender-acuminate, the base 

 acute, upper surface smooth and shining, the lower glabrous, except the 

 more or less puberulous midrib and nerves, teeth mostly obscure, 1 to 

 1.5 cm. apart; nerves about 10 on each side of the midrib, spreading, 



