x, c. i Merrill: Neiv or Noteworthy Philippine Plants, XI 65 
throat, the tube prominently pubescent inside; lobes spreading- 
recurved, orbicular, 3 mm in diameter. Anthers narrowly ovate- 
lanceolate, 1.2 mm long. Ovary short, pubescent. Fruit not 
seen. 
Basilan, Bur. Sci. 161US Reillo, September, 1912. 
A species manifestly allied to the Malayan Alyxia lucida Wall., which 
it greatly resembles, but from which it is distingushed by its congested 
inflorescence which is much shorter than the petioles, its longer flowers, 
and more numerously nerved leaves. It is also closely allied to Alyxia 
odorata Wall., perhaps closer to this than to A. lucida, but is distinguish- 
able by its acuminate, not acute or obtuse leaves, shorter cymes, sessile 
flowers, and orbicular, not ovate, corolla-lobes. 
ALSTON I A R. Brown 
ALSTON 1 A OBLONGI FOLIA sp. nov. § Dissuraspermum. 
Arbor circiter 10 m alta, ramulis subtus foliis inflorescen- 
tiisque leviter pubescentibus ; foliis ternis vel quaternis, char- 
taceis vel subcoriaceis, subtus pallidis, oblongis ad oblongo- 
lanceolatis, usque ad 14 cm longis, nervis distantibus, utrinque 
14 ad 18, distinctis ; inflorescentiis terminalibus, floribus circiter 
8 mm longis. 
A tree about 10 m high. Branches obscurely angled, slightly 
pubescent. Leaves whorled, 3 or 4 at each node, oblong to 
oblong-lanceolate, narrowed and somewhat acuminate at both 
ends, chartaceous or subcoriaceous, 6 to 14 cm long, 2 to 4 cm 
wide, the upper surface glabrous, shining, brown when dry, the 
lower surface much paler, slightly pubescent, especially on the 
midrib and nerves; nerves distant, spreading, distinct, brown, 
14 to 18 on each side of the midrib, the reticulations slender, 
not prominent; petioles somewhat pubescent, less than 1 cm 
long. Inflorescence terminal, sessile, that is numerous peduncles 
springing from the apex of the branchlet, the peduncles slender, 
slightly pubescent, 2 to 7 cm long, subumbellately or corymbosely 
branched at their apices, the branches gray-villous but not 
densely so. Flowers numerous, white, their pedicels 1 to 2 mm 
long. Calyx cup-shaped, slightly gray-pubescent, about 1.5 mm 
long, the lobes very short. Corolla-tube about 5 mm long, cylin- 
dric, slightly pubescent on the outside, somewhat inflated above 
the middle opposite the insertion of the stamens, inside and 
throat villous, the lobes oblong, obtuse, 3.5 to 4 mm long, over- 
lapping to the right, their margins ciliate-villous. Anthers in- 
serted above the middle, about 1 mm long. Ovary glabrous, 
narrowed into the slender, 2 mm long style. 
Palawan, in old clearings near Puerto Princesa, For. Bur. bb-95 Curran, 
June 5, 1906. 
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