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cm long and 9 cm wide, the bracts linear-lanceolate, 4 to 5 mm 
long, the bracteoles numerous, similar to the bracts but about 
1 mm long. Calyx truncate, cup-shaped, 3 mm in diameter, 
glabrous or nearly so. Fruits globose, about 3.5 mm in diameter. 
Luzon, Cagayan Province, Pamplona, For. Bur. 26967 Velasco, August 
9, 1917, in forests, altitude about 50 meters. 
A most remarkable species, well characterized by its very large, entire, 
slenderly acuminate leaves which are glabrous above and densely matted- 
puberulent on the lower surface with a pale-brownish, shining, non-stellate 
indumentum; glands, if present, are entirely obscured by the indumentum. 
VITEX Linnaeus 
VITEX CELEBICA Koord. Meded. Lands Plantent. 19 (1898) 560, 645. 
Mindanao, Cotabato District, For. Bur. 651*3 Hutchinson, March, 1907, 
For. Bur. 151*20 Pray, March, 1910: Zamboanga District, Siag River, 
For. Bur. 13383 Foxworthy, DeMesa, & Villamil, May 29, 1912; Butuan 
Subprovince, Amparo, For. Bur. 20746 Rafael & Ponce, October 10, 1913: 
Davao District, Mount Apo, Elmer 11602, September, 1909, distributed as 
V. pentaphylla Merr. 
A species previously known only from Celebes, our Philippine material 
agreeing closely with the description and with Celebes specimens in all 
essential characters. In Cotabato it is known as calipapa-aso, molave-aso, 
calipapa, and calipapa-madam ; and in Zamboanga as limpapa and himulauin. 
SOLANACEAE 
SOLAN UM Linnaeus 
SOLAN UM LUZON I ENSE sp. nov. 
Frutex erectus, ramosus, 0.5 ad 1 m altus, plus minusve pal- 
lide stellato-tomentosus, ramis teretibus aculeis sparsis rectis 
circiter 2 mm longis armatis; foliis mernbranaceis, oblongis, 
integris, in siccitate subolivaceis, acuminatis, basi acutis, plerura- 
que obscure inaequilateralibus, nervis utrinque circiter 5, te- 
nuibus, curvatis, anastomosantibus ; cymis extra-axillaribus ter- 
minalibusque, circiter 3 cm longis, breviter pedunculatis, stellato- 
tomentosis ; floribus extus stellato-tomentosis, circiter 8 mm 
longis, violaceis; fructibus globosis, glabris, carnosis, inermis, 
coccineis, circiter 6 mm diametro. 
An erect, branched, sparingly aculeate, more or less stellate- 
tomentose shrub or undershrub 0.5 to 1 m high, the branches 
terete, reddish-brown, sparingly cinereous-stellate-tomentose, 
with scattered, straight, sharp spines about 2 mm in length, the 
young branchlets rather densely stellate-tomentose. Leaves al- 
ternate, membranaceous, subolivaceous when dry, slightly shin- 
ing, the lower surface paler than the upper and more pubescent, 
oblong, entire or obscurely undulate, acuminate, base usually 
