x, c, 4 Merrill: Studies on Philippine Anonaceae, I 261 
mm long. Flowers green and pink, on the ultimate branchlets 
opposite the terminal leaves. Calyx pubescent, the sepals 
broadly ovate, obtuse, coriaceous, about 3 mm long. Outer 
three petals narrowly lanceolate, coriaceous, about 3.5 cm long, 
8 mm wide, longitudinally sulcate, uniformly brown-pubescent, 
narrowed upward to the blunt apex, the base slightly concave ; 
inner three petals narrowly ovate, glabrous, thickly coriaceous, 
6 to 7 mm long, deeply concave, prominently and sharply acu- 
minate. Stamens many, about 1 mm long, the connectives trun- 
cate. Carpels many, narrowly oblong, somewhat curved, 1.2 to 
1.4 mm long, narrowed upward, about 1.2 mm long; stigmas 
of the outer carpels narrowly oblong, up to 1 mm long, of the 
inner ones irregularly obovoid, truncate, shorter ; ovules solitary. 
Leyte, near Dagami, in forests, Bur. Sci. 15342 Ramos, August, 1912. 
A species manifestly allied to Oxymitra biglandulosa (Blume) Scheff., 
but with very differently shaped leaves, more numerous nerves, and some- 
what longer flowers. It differs from O. urdanatensis Elm. notably in its 
more numerously nerved leaves. 
OXYMITRA PHILIPPINENSIS sp. nov. 
Frutex scandens, partibus junioribus ferrugineo-pubescen- 
tibus; foliis subcoriaceis, oblongis ad oblongo-ellipticis, usque 
ad 25 cm longis, apice rotundatis, basi cordatis, supra glabris, 
nitidis, subtus glaucis, ad costa nervisque ferrugineo-pubescen- 
tibus, nervis utrinque 16 ad 18; floribus extra-axillaribus, 
solitariis, longe pedicellatis, circiter 5.5 cm longis, ferrugineo- 
pubescentibus, petalis exterioribus concavis, interioribus glabris 
vel subglabris, circiter 9 mm longis, carpellis dense hirsutis. 
A scandent shrub, the younger leaves, twigs, and flowers 
rather densely ferruginous-pubescent. Branches terete, brown, 
slender, more or less ferruginous-pubescent. Leaves oblong to 
oblong-elliptic, subcoriaceous, 17 to 25 cm long, 7.5 to 11 cm wide, 
apex broadly rounded, base equilateral or somewhat inequilateral, 
cordate, scarcely narrowed, the upper surface brown and shining 
when dry, glabrous, or the midrib slightly pubescent, the lower 
surface glaucous, the midrib and nerves dark brown, ferru- 
ginous-pubescent ; lateral nerves 16 to 18 on each side of the 
midrib, prominent ; petioles stout, 8 mm long or less, ferruginous- 
pubescent. Flowers extra-axillary, solitary, their pedicels about 
2 cm long, densely ferruginous-pubescent, with an oblong-lanceo- 
late, acuminate, 6 to 7 mm long bracteole at the lower one-third. 
Sepals 3, sometimes 4, oblong-ovate, obtuse or acute, ferruginous- 
pubescent, coriaceous, about 9 mm long and 5.5 mm wide. Outer 
petals 3, sometimes 4, narrowly lanceolate, ferruginous-pubescent, 
5.5 cm long, 1 cm wide below, convex at the base, above chan- 
