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15 on each side of the midrib, slender, distinct, anastomosing; 
petioles 1.5 to 2 cm long. Panicles axillary and subterminal, 
ample, many-flowered, open, about as long as the leaves, branched 
from the base, the lower branches sometimes 25 cm in length, 
all parts rather densely gray-pubescent. Perianth-tube funnel- 
shaped, 4 mm long, somewhat hirsute. Sepals 7, when fully 
grown 6 to 7 mm long, about 1.8 mm wide, obtuse, pubescent, 
oblong-oblanceolate. Petals 7, oblong, obtuse, pubescent, about 
4 mm long. Stamens 21, in groups of three each opposite the 
petals; filaments filiform, 2.5 to 3 mm long, very slightly pubes- 
cent; anthers 0.3 mm long. Ovary densely hirsute, the styles 1 
to 1.5 mm long. 
Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Talisay, For. Bur. 13781 Foxworthy, 
DeMesa, & Villamil (type), June 18, 1912, in forests, altitude about 30 
meters; near Port Banga, For. Bur. 15216 Klemme, July, 1910, sterile 
specimen. 
A species most closely allied to Homalium luzoniense F.-Vill., but well 
characterized by its oblong entire leaves. 
The specimen collected by Klemme consists of leaves only, taken from 
sprouts. One leaf is entire, 40 cm long and 14 cm wide, while the other, 
a more juvenile form, is 40 cm long and 20 cm wide, the margins being 
distinctly undulate-toothed. 
SCOLOPI A Schreb. 
Most of the recently collected Philippine material of the genus Scolopia 
has been referred to Scolopia crenata Clos, and to S. luzonensis (Presl) 
Warb. While Briquet’s paper on the genus has been known to me for 
some years, it has only recently become available. 8 Following Briquet in 
his interpretation of the group of species closely allied to Scolopia crenata 
Clos, in which he is doubtless correct, the known Philippine forms may 
be disposed of as follows: 
SCOLOPIA LUZONENSIS (Presl) Warb. in Engl. & Pi'antl Nat. Pflan- 
zenfam. 3 0a (1893) 30, /. 11; Briq. in Ann. Conserv. Jard. Bot. 
Geneve 2 (1908) 45; Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 
98. 
Dasianthera luzonensis Presl Rel. Haenk. 2 (1835) 90, t. 66. 
Phoberos dasyanthera Benn. PI. Jav. Rar. (1844) 192; F.-Vill. Novis. 
App. (1880) 12. 
Banara racemosa Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 425. 
Flacourtia corollata Blanco 1. c. ed. 2 (1845) 559. 
Flacourtia crenata F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 12; Vid. Rev. PI. Vase. 
Filip. (1886) 48; Sinopsis Atlas (1883) 13, t. 7, f. B, non Clos. 
Phoberos sp. Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 27 (1854) 333. 
Scolopia rhinanthera F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 12, non Clos. 
8 Briquet, J. Remarques sur les especes asiatiques du genre Scolopia 
Schreb., Ann. Conserv. Jard. Bot. Geneve 2 (1908) 41-47. 
