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VITEX PHILIPPINENSIS Merrill, sp. nov. 



A tree, nearly jylabrous, with ample coriaceous 5-foliate leaves, and broadly foliate- 

 winged petioles. Branches glabrous, striate. Petioles 12 to 15 cm. long, trian- 

 gular in <T088 section, the foliate wings broadly ovate, cordate at the broadly 

 rounded base and also at the apex, the entire breadth 13 cm. Leaves 5-foliate, 

 petiolules 0.5 cm. long, leaflets lanceolate-ovate, glabrous, entire, tapering grad- 

 ually to the cunuate base, and to the acute or slightly acuminate apex, 30 to 

 40 cm. long, 10 to 12 cm. wide, lateral veins about 12 pairs, prominent, anasto- 

 mosing near the margin. Panicles terminal, glabrous, ample, Imt shorter than 

 the leaves, 35 cm. long, the longer branches 20 cm. in length, opposite. Bracts 

 lanceolate, ataite, 1 cm. long, or less. Flowers numerous, crowded at the ends 

 of the panicle branches, 'pedicles 2-3 mm. long. Calyx 3 mm. long, 5-toothed, 

 the teeth acute, 1 mm. long. Corolla 6 to 8 mm. long, scurfy-tomentose. 



Type specimen collected at Tagana-an, Province of Zamboanga, Mindanao, No. 387 

 March (?) 1901. Moro (?) Buli-cahoy. 



A species readily distinguished by its exceedingly broad foliate petioles, ample 

 5-foliate leaves, the former being a most chara(;teri8tic feature. The affinity 

 of this species is with Vitex pteropoda Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 567, from 

 Sumatra, but it is certainly quite distinct from that species. 



V. sp. indet. 



Luzon, 110, 706. 



CLERODENDBON Linn. 



C. intermedium Cham. Linnaea, 7: 150. 1832. 

 Mindanao, Prov. Surigao, 327. 

 Endemic. 



* C. lanuginosum Blume, Bijdr. 810. 1825. 



Mindanao, Prov. Surigao, 691. 



A species previously known only from the Moluccas. 

 *C. minahassee Tey.sm. and Binn. Tijd. Ned. Ind. 26: 409. 1863. 



Mindanao, I'rov. Zamboanga, 568. 



A species previously known only from Celebes. 



C. sp. indet. 



Mindanao, 549. Specimen incomplete. 



AVICENNIA Linn. 



A. officinalis Linn. Sp. PI. 110. 1753. 



Luzon, Prov. Camarines Sur, Pasacao, 116, 148. 

 From East Africa to Polynesia. 



BIGNONIACEJ5. 

 DOLICHANDRONE Fenzl. 



D. spathacea (Linn. ) K. Schum. Fl. Kaiser Wilhelmsland. 123. 1889. {Bignonia 



KpiillKwen Linn; D. rlieedii Seem.) 

 Luzon, Manila 723 (?), Prov. Camarines Sur, Pasacao, 59. Mindanao, Pror. 



Surigao, 672. 

 Tagalog, Tut. 

 Malayan Peninsula and Archipelago, etc. 



STEROSPERMUM. 

 S. pinnatum (Blanco) F. Viil. Nov. App. 151. 1883. 



Luzon, Prov. Camarines Sur, Pasacao, 61, Mindanao, Prov. Surigao, 528, 848. 

 Endemic. 



