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GARDENIA Ellis. 



G. obscura (Blanco) Vidal, Phanerog. Cuininfr. 119. 1885. {Rem'ujia ohscurn 

 Blanco. ) 

 Luzon, Manila, 720, 733. 

 Tagalog, Malahabas or Calaffri. 

 F^ndeinic. 

 G. pseudopsidium Blanco, Fl. Filip. ed 1, 497. 1837. 

 Luzon, Manila, 744. 

 Endemic. 



TRICALYSIA A. Rich. 



T. sp. indet. (Sect. Diplo»pora. ) 



Luzon, Prov. Caniarines Sur, Pasacao, 248. Seems very near to an unnamed 

 specimen in Herb. Hort. Bot. Bog., collected in Minahas.«a, North C\»lebe.«, by 

 Dr. Koorders. Specimen in fruit. 



PLECTRONIA Linn. 



P. horrida (Blume) Benth. and Hook. f. ex King in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 44: 

 153. 1877. (Cuntliium horridiim Blume.) 

 Luzon, Prov. Camarines Sur, Pasacao, 254, 819. 

 Tagalog, Dayap-dayap. 

 Malayan Peninsula and Archipelago. 

 * P. moluceana ( Roxb. ) Qinthium moluccanum Roxb. Hort, Beng. 85. 

 Mindanacj, Prov. Surigao. 451. 

 Moluccaa. 



GUETTARDA Linn. 



G. speciosa Linn. Sp. PI. 991. 1753. 



Luzon, Prov. Camarines Sur, Pasacao, 19, 205; Island of Dinagat, 464. 

 Extends from East Africa to Polynesia. 



TIMONIXJS Rumph. 



TIMONIUS PHILIPPINENSIS Merrill, sp. nov. 



A shrub (?) or tree with glabrous, terete, purplish ultimate branches, prominent 

 leaf scars and ovate or ovate-oblong, rarely obovate, firm leaves. Petioles 

 thick, glabrous, 3 to 8 mm. long; leaves entire, 10 to 15 cm. long, 5 to 6 cm. 

 wide, acute, or very obscurely broadly-acuminate, tapering to the acute or 

 rarely slightly obtuse base, shining and glabrous above except for few short 

 scattered white hairs on the nerves, beneath with few scattered hairs on the 

 nerves, and bearded in the axils with few or many usually ])rownish hairs, 

 otherwise glabrous except for a very few scattered hairs on the reticulations. 

 Nerves prominent, 5 or 6 pairs. Stipules deciduous, triangular, acuminate, 6 to 

 8 mm. long, sparingly appressed -hirsute and ciliate on the margins, leaving 

 aciliate ring above the leaf scar when fallen. Inflorescence axillary, cymose 

 rather densely, 6 to 8 flowered; peduncles glabrous, 15 cm. long. Flowers 

 sessile or nearly so. Calyx, purplish, glabrous, about 3 mm. long, truncate or 

 obscurely and broadly 5-toothed. Corolla 1 cm. long, 5-lobed, densely ap- 

 pressed-villous throughout. 



Island of Dinagat, 463, 456. 

 \ species very closely related to Timonius compressicaule (Miq.) {PolypJmujmon 



compremcauleW\(\.), from Sumatra, but differing in its much thicker purplish, 



glabrous, terete, ultimate branches, glabrous calyx, and longer corolla. 



