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que densissime verruculoso-rugosis, brunneis vel atro-brunneis, 
nitidis; floribus magnis, circiter 10 cm longis, subcampanulatis. 
A scandent shrub attaining a height of 30 meters according 
to Curran and a diameter of 18 cm, entirely glabrous. Branches 
stout, about 1 cm in diameter when dry, wrinkled, olivaceous to 
blackish-brown, shining. Leaves very thickly coriaceous, brown 
to black-brown on both surfaces when dry, shining, densely 
verruculose-rugose, oblong-obovate to narrowly obovate, 12 to 
25 cm long, 6 to 8 cm wide, apex rounded, gradually narrowed 
below the middle to the decurrent-acuminate base, the midrib 
very prominent, the lateral nerves obsolete or nearly so ; petioles 
stout, 2 to 4 cm long, the thick, inflated, basal portion about 1.5 
cm in diameter. Flowers white, two or three at the apex of 
each branchlet, their pedicels very stout, about 1.5 cm long, 
black when dry, the subtending bracts oblong, obtuse, thickly 
coriaceous 1.5 cm long. Calyx ovoid, about 3 cm long, the lobes 
very thickly coriaceous, subelliptic, rounded, about 2.5 cm long, 
the bracteoles ovate to oblong-ovate, obtuse, about 1.5 cm long. 
Corolla somewhat campanulate, the tube up to 5 cm in length, 
widened above, the lobes very thickly coriaceous, brittle when 
dry, obovate, rounded, 4 to 5 cm long; anthers thick, about 8 
mm long. 
Luzon, Laguna Province, Mount Banahao, For. Bur. 8015 Curran & 
Merritt, November 6, 1907 (type), altitude about 100 meters; Mount Ma- 
quiling, For. Bur. 26897 Mabesa, September 8, 1917, altitude 200 to 300 
meters: Cagayan Province, Mount Ababaca, For. Bur. 17217 Curran, March, 
1909 (sterile). Polillo, Bur. Sci. 101.80 McGregor, flowers only. 
This species, originally named Fagraea curranii in 1908, was not then 
published, but was placed under Fagraea auriculata Jack to which it is 
closely allied, but it differs from the latter species in a number of characters, 
notably in the obsolete or subobsolete lateral veins of its leaves. 
FAGRAEA M ACGREGORI I sp. nov. 
Ut videtur frutex scandens, F. longiflorae Merr. affinis, differt 
foliis oblongo-obovatis, basi longe decurrentibus, calycibus sub 
fructu quam fructibus brevioribus, haud accrescentibus. 
Apparently a vine, probably pseudo-parasitic, the branches 
stout. Leaves coriaceous, rather pale when dry, oblong-obovate, 
up to 70 cm in length and 25 cm in wid&i, acute or slightly 
acuminate, base gradually narrowed, decurrent along the 6 to 
8 cm long petiole; lateral nerves 10 to 12 on each side of the 
very stout midrib, prominent on the lower surface, reticulations 
obsolete. Flowers unknown. Fruits crowded at the apices of 
the branches, about 15 in a rather close, dense head, the subtend- 
ing bracts ovate, acuminate, about 3 cm long. Fruit, when fresh, 
