x, c, 5 Merrill: Philippine Plants, XII 333 
Fruit narrowly ovoid, fleshy, red, about 8 mm long, sparingly 
villous near the apex, otherwise entirely glabrous. 
Luzon, Province of Rizal, near the summit of Mount Susung Dalaga, 
Bur. Sci. 19243 Reillo, December 9, 1913. 
A very characteristic species, quite distinct from the other Philippine 
forms in its many-flowered, somewhat elongated racemes, the rachises of 
which are rather densely covered with the short, persistent, stout pedicels. 
RHIZOPHORACEAE 
GYNOTROCHES Blume 
GYNOTROCHES PUBERULA sp. nov. 
Arbor parva, ramulis junioribus, subtus foliis stipulisque plus 
minusve puberulis vel breviter pubescentibus ; foliis oblongis, sub- 
coriaceis, integris, acuminatis, basi acutis, usque ad 15 cm longis, 
nervis utrinque circiter 7, eurvato-adscendentibus ; f ructibus axil- 
laribus, fasciculatis, pedicellatis, ovoideis, circiter 4 mm longis. 
A species very similar to Gynotroches axillaris Blume, differing 
chiefly in its indumentum. Branches slender, terete, brownish- 
red, somewhat compressed at the nodes, glabrous, the young 
branchlets puberulent. Leaves subcoriaceous, oblong, 10 to 15 
cm long, 3 to 6 cm wide, pale or brownish when dry, shining, the 
base acute, the apex rather prominently acuminate, the upper 
surface quite glabrous, the lower distinctly puberulent or short- 
pubescent especially on the midrib and lateral nerves; lateral 
nerves about 7 on each side of the midrib, rather prominent, 
curved-ascending ; petioles about 8 mm long, puberulent ; stipules 
linear-lanceolate, 1.2 cm long, puberulent, deciduous. Fruits 
numerous, axillary, fascicled, red when mature, ovoid, about 
4 mm long, the pedicels jointed at about the middle, about as 
long as the fruits, the persistent sepals ovate, acute, 1.5 mm long. 
Samar, Catbalogan, Bur. Sci. 17396 Ramos (type) ; Cauayan Valley, 
Phil. PL 1632 Ramos, April, 1914, in forests. 
Very similar to and manifestly closely allied to Gynotroches axillaris 
Blume, from which it differs chiefly in its puberulent indumentum on the 
young branchlets, petioles, stipules, and lower surface of its leaves. 
ARALIACEAE 
BOER LAG I ODEN DRON Harms 
BOER LAG I ODEN DRON Dl V ERSI FOLI U M sp. nov. 
Frutex 2 ad 3 m altus, inflorescentiis exceptis glaber; foliis 
coriaceis, valde diversis, majoribus usque ad 35 cm longis, usque 
ad 1 vel f palmatim 3- vel 5-lobatis, superioribus minoribus, 
ellipticis ad oblongo-ovatis, 15 ad 30 cm longis, margine grosse 
