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2. GUATTERIA PALLIDA, Blume? 



Guatteria pallida, Blume, Bijdr. p. 20, & Fl. Jav. Anonac. p. 97, t. 48. 



Hab. Banos, near Manilla, Luzon. 



A poor specimen, with young fruit, destitute of flowers, which I 

 can only doubtfully refer to Blume's G. pallida, with the figure of 

 which it pretty well accords. 



4. ANAXAGOREA, St. mi. 



1. Anaxagorea Luzonensis, Sp. Nov. 



A. foliis lanceolato-oblongis utrinque angustatis promisse acuminatis con- 

 coloribus; staminibus conformibus ; ovariis 3 Icevibus in stylum gra- 

 dient attenuatis ; folliculis longe clavato-stipitatis. 



Hab. Mountains near Banos, in the Island of Luzon. (Also in 

 Cuming's Philippine collection, No. 831.) 



Branches slender, glabrous, as is the whole plant. Leaves membra- 

 naceous, from 3 to 5 inches in length, lanceolate-oblong, or oblong, 

 narrowed into an acute base, conspicuously acuminate, green both 

 sides, not at all glaucescent underneath : petioles about 3 lines long. 

 Peduncles opposite the leaves, 2, or in fruit 3, lines in length, one- 

 flowered, furnished with a very small clasping bractlet near the 

 apex. Calyx of 3 ovate and obtuse sepals, united at the base, mi- 

 nutely ciliolate, otherwise glabrous, about one-third the length of the 

 corolla. Petals lanceolate-oblong, the 3 outer ones about half an 

 inch long; the 3 inner a little smaller. Torus not at all en- 

 larged. Stamens about 30, equal and similar, all perfect and with 

 short filaments: anthers linear, with a short obtuse tip, three or 

 four times the length of the filament. Pistils 3, slightly stipitate 

 in the flower-bud, smooth throughout ; ovary ovoid-oblong, tapering into 



