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The Philippine Journal of Science 
1916 
Luzon, Province of Sorsogon, Mount Lalao, Bur. Sci. 2S£H Ramos, 
August 9, 1915, in forests near the summit of the mountain. 
A species apparently belonging in the same group as the Malayan 
Morinda jackiana Korth., but quite glabrous. It is entirely different from 
all the other described Philippine forms. 
Tl MON I US DeCandolle 
TIMONIUS OLIGOPHLEBIUS sp. nov. 
Arbor circiter 6 m alta, ramulis foliis inflorescentiisque plus 
minusve ferrugineo-pubescentibus ; foliis ellipticis ad obovatis, 
subcoriaceis, in siccitate brunneis, usque ad 8 cm longis, nitidis, 
utrinque rotundatis vel obtusis, nervis utrinque 4 vel 5 ; inflores- 
centiis axillaribus, solitariis, circiter 6 cm longis, longe peduncu- 
latis, furcatis; fructibus sessilibus, ellipsoideis vel late ovoideis, 
circiter 6 mm longis. 
A tree about 6 m high, the branchlets, leaves, and inflorescence 
more or less pubescent with short brownish hairs. Branches 
slender, pale-grayish or brownish, terete, glabrous, the younger 
ones with appressed ferruginous hairs. Leaves elliptic to some- 
what obovate, brown and somewhat shining when dry, 6 to 9 cm 
long, 3.5 to 5 cm wide, rounded at both ends, or sometimes obtuse, 
the base rarely acute, somewhat ferruginous-pubescent on the 
midrib and nerves on both surfaces, more especially on the lower 
surface; lateral nerves 4 or 5 on each of the midrib, prominent 
on the lower surface, curved-ascending, anastomosing, the retic- 
ulations few, lax ; petioles about 1 cm long, ferruginous-pubescent. 
Inflorescence axillary, solitary, forked at the apex of the long 
peduncle, the peduncle 3 to 4 cm long, the branches about 2 cm 
in length, ferruginous-pubescent. Fruits ellipsoid or broadly 
ovoid, sessile, about 6 mm long, glabrous or with few scattered 
ferruginous hairs, one at the fork and 4 or 5 arranged in a single 
row on each of the two branches. 
Luzon, Province of Sorsogon, Mount Kililibong, Bur. Sci. 23367 Ramos, 
August 17, 1915, in forests near the summit, apparently at an altitude 
of about 1,000 meters. 
The alliance of this species is with Timonious trichophorus Merr., of 
Leyte, from which it differs in its differently shaped, fewer nerved leaves 
and other characters. 
MUSSAENDA Linnaeus 
MUSSAENDA M ULTI BRACTEATA sp. nov. 
Arbor parva, prominente hirsuta; foliis in paribus subae- 
qualibus, membranaceis, ovatis, usque ad 20 cm longis, acumi- 
natis, basi attenuatis, nervis utrinque circiter 11, prominentibus ; 
inflorescentiis terminalibus, dense hirsutis, multibracteatis, 
bracteis lanceolatis, hirsutis, subpersistentibus, ad 13 mm longis ; 
