X, C, 5 
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diametro, floribus 4-meris, sub fructu globosis, circiter 10 cm 
diametro, fructibus obovoideis vel oblongo-obovoideis, circiter 3.5 
cm longis, apice abrupte rotundatis, depressis, abrupte brevissime 
apiculatis, densissime retrorse hirsutis. 
A scandent shrub apparently of large size, the fruit-bearing 
branches up to 1.5 cm in diameter, pale brownish, prominently 
wrinkled when dry. Leaves ovate, coriaceous, pale, 12 to 16 cm 
long, 7 to 10 cm wide, entire, the upper surface glabrous, shining, 
the lower surface paler, glabrous, apex acuminate, base prom- 
inently cordate; basal nerves 5, the lateral ones about 4 pairs 
(or 3 above the base), very prominent, looped-anastomosing near 
the margins, the reticulations very distinct; petioles 5 to 7 cm 
long, very slightly hirsute. Female heads, just after anthesis, 
in pairs, apparently from the axils of fallen leaves, brown, 
globose, about 2 cm in diameter, their peduncles brown-hirsute, 
up to 4 cm in length. Flowers 4-merous, the calyx 4 to 5 mm 
long, lobes broadly ovate, acute or somewhat acuminate, up to 1.5 
mm long, externally densely appressed-hirsute. Ovaries densely 
hirsute, when slightly developed (6 to 8 mm long) distinctly 3- 
or 4-toothed at the apex, the base narrowed. Heads in fruit (im- 
mature) globose, 8 to 10 cm in diameter, brown, the drupes very 
numerous, obovoid to oblong-obovoid, about 3.5 cm long, the apex 
up to 2 cm in diameter, angular by mutual pressure, gradually 
narrowed from the apex to the base, the apex itself abruptly 
rounded, usually distinctly depressed, and with a short, stout, 
blunt apiculus 2 mm long or less, all parts very densely hirsute 
with stiff, brown, appressed, reflexed hairs. 
Biliran, Bur. Sci. 18832 McGregor, June 28, 1914, in forests. 
This species is manifestly allied to Phytocrene blancoi (Azaola) Merr., 
which in turn is doubtfully distinct from Phytocrene macrophylla Blume; 
it differs, however, in its leaves being glabrous beneath, and in its entirely 
differently shaped drupes which are not gradually narrowed upward to 
the tip, but are obovoid or oblong-obovoid, abruptly rounded and depressed, 
gradually narrowed from the apex to the base. In the shape of its drupes 
it is equally distinct from Phytocrene dasycarpa Miq. 
TILIACEAE 
COLUMBIA Persoon 
COLUMBIA SUBINTEGRA sp. nov. 
Arbor circiter 35 m alta, inflorescentiis exceptis glabra; foliis 
ovatis ad oblongo-ovatis, coriaceis, usque ad 17 cm longis, utrin- 
que glabris, nitidis, concoloribusque, integris vel leviter undulatis, 
aequilateralibus, basi late rotundatis, apice acuminatis ; paniculis 
terminalibus, pyramidatis, pubescentibus ; fructibus 2 cm dia- 
metro, suborbicularis, 5-alatis. 
