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ellipsoid or ovoid, smooth, pale, shining, splitting into 3 valves, 
the pericarp very firm, about 2 mm thick ; seeds numerous, com- 
pressed, inequilateral, about 8 mm long, pale, prominently pitted, 
base acute, apex somewhat oblique, their funicles up to 2 cm in 
length. 
Basilan, Bur. Sci. 15U19 Reillo, August, 1912. 
In vegetative characters somewhat similar to our common Adenia coccinea 
(Blanco) Merr., but in this species the pericarp of the mature fruit is 
very thin, almost membranaceous. 
THYMELAEACEAE 
Wl KSTROEM I A Endlicher 
WIKSTROEMIA POLYANTHA sp. nov. 
Frutex vel arbor parva, ramulis puberulis vel leviter pubes- 
centibus; foliis brevissime petiolatis, ovatis ad oblongo-ovatis, 
coriaceis, nitidis, usque ad 6 cm longis, acutis vel obscure 
acuminatis, basi late rotundatis vel obscure cordatis, nervis 
utrinque circiter 8, tenuibus; inflorescentiis racemosis, floribus 
numerosis, brevissime pedicellatis, circiter 1 cm longis, extus 
glabris vel parcissime pubescentibus. 
A shrub or small tree, nearly glabrous, the branches terete, 
reddish-brown, glabrous, the branchlets obscurely puberulent, the 
younger ones with very short, appressed, cinereous hairs, some- 
what angled or compressed. Leaves ovate to oblong-ovate, 
glabrous, brownish when dry, shining on both surfaces, the lower 
surface a little paler than the upper, the apex acute or very ob- 
scurely acuminate, the base broadly rounded, often obscurely 
cordate; nerves slender, about 8 on each side of the midrib, 
obscurely anastomosing; petioles reddish-brown, obscurely pu- 
berulent, 2 mm long or less. Racemes terminal or in the up- 
permost axils, appressed-hirsute, 2 to 3 cm long, many-flowered, 
the entire lower part thickly covered with the persistent pedicels 
of fallen flowers, the buds and open flowers crowded at the apices, 
the pedicels sparingly appressed-hirsute, stout, less than 1 mm 
long. Perianth cylindric, yellow, 10 to 11 mm long, about 1.5 
mm in diameter, glabrous outside, or with very few scattered 
hairs in the upper part, the two outer lobes orbicular-elliptic, 
broadly rounded, 2.2 mm long, the two inner ones somewhat 
shorter and narrower. Stamens 8, 4 inserted at about the mid- 
dle of the tube, 4 inserted near the apex, included; anthers 
narrowly oblong, 1.5 mm long. Ovary narrowly oblong, cylin- 
dric, 2.5 mm long, villous at the apex, glabrous below; style 
slender, about 1 mm long; stigma globose, 0.5 mm in diameter. 
