XII, c, 6 Merrill: New Philippine Shrubs and Trees 303 
A glabrous tree about 7 m high, the branches brownish, the 
ultimate branchlets somewhat 4-angled. Leaves oblong to 
oblong-obovate, submembranaceous, greenish or olivaceous and 
of the same color on both surfaces when dry, shining, minutely 
puncticulate on both surfaces, 30 to 36 cm long, 8 to 12 cm wide, 
entire or with very few, widely scattered, minute teeth, the 
apex acuminate, base acute ; lateral nerves about 10 on each side 
of the midrib, prominent, curved, anastomosing, the primary 
reticulations very lax and prominent; petioles 4 to 5 cm long. 
Panicles terminal, about 10-flowered, the peduncle very short, 
including the rachis about 2 cm in length. Flowers white, 
fragrant. Calyx somewhat inflated, about 4 cm long, charta- 
ceous, glandular-punctate externally, brownish when dry, some- 
what angled, base cuneate, divided to about the middle into 
five, narrowly-lanceolate, acuminate lobes. Corolla-tube slender, 
about 12 cm long and 2 mm in diameter, the lobes spreading, 
lanceolate to oblanceolate, about 4 cm long, 5 to 7 mm wide. 
Luzon, Laguna Province, forests back of Paete, For. Bur. 26796 Mabesa, 
March 27, 1917, on moist shaded slopes, altitude about 370 meters. 
A remarkable species, manifestly allied to Clerodendron minahassae 
Miq., from which it differs in its much longer flowers. 
