xi, c, i Merrill: New Plants from Samar 177 
cm in length, sparingly pubescent. Flowers white, numerous, 
sessile, fascicled, 4-merous, the bracteoles slightly pubescent, 
linear-lanceolate, 2 to 2.5 mm long, the bracts similar but larger, 
5 to 8 mm long. Perianth-segments ovate, about 2 mm long. 
Filaments 3 mm long. Pistillate flowers not seen. 
Samar, Catubig River at San Jose, Pinipisakan, and Palapag, Bur. Sci. 
%Jtb06 2U27U (type) Ramos, Sablaya 20, March, 1916, in thickets and in 
damp forests along streams at low altitudes, locally known as lingaton. 
A sufficiently characteristic species apparently not very closely allied 
to any previously known Philippine form, well characterized by its glabrous 
leaves. 
OPILIACEAE 
CHAMPEREIA Griffith 
CHAM PER EIA PLATYPHYLLA sp. nov. 
Frutex circiter 4 m altus, glaber; foliis oblongo-ellipticis, 
usque ad 25 cm longis et 12 cm latis, coriaceis, in siccitate 
utrinque verruculosis, acuminatis, basi acutis vel rotundatis et 
decurrento-acuminatis, nervis utrinque circiter 8, subtus prom- 
inentibus; inflorescentiis laxis, usque ad 10 cm longis, sepalis 
oblongo-ovatis, acutis, 2 mm longis. 
A glabrous erect shrub about 4 m in height. Branches and 
branchlets terete, grayish, the former lenticellate. Leaves 
oblong-elliptic, 20 to 25 cm long, 9 to 12 cm wide, olivaceous 
and usually dull when dry, minutely verruculose on both sur- 
faces, apex acuminate, base acute to rounded and decurrent- 
acuminate, coriaceous or subcoriaceous ; lateral nerves about 8 
on each side of the midrib, rather prominent on the lower 
surface, obscurely anastomosing, the primary reticulations very 
lax, not prominent, the secondary obsolete; petioles stout, less 
than 1 cm long. Inflorescences axillary, lax, rather many- 
flowered, up to 10 cm in length. Flowers greenish- white, their 
pedicels about 4 mm long. Sepals oblong-ovate, acute, 2 mm 
long. Filaments about 1 mm long. 
Samar, Catubig River at Camaniwan, Bur. Sci. 2U2US Ramos, February 
12, 1916, on forested slopes at low altitudes. 
A species similar in general appearance and in details of its flowers to 
Champereia manillana (Blume) Merr., from which it is readily distin- 
guished by its very large leaves, most of which are from 20 to 25 cm long 
and about 11 cm wide. 
CHAMPEREIA OB LONG I FOLIA sp. nov. 
Frutex vel arbor parva, glabra; foliis oblongis, junioribus 
membranaceis vetustioribus subcoriaceis, usque ad 18 cm longis 
et 8 cm latis, basi acutis ad acuminatis, sursum gradatim an- 
gustatis, longe acuminatis, utrinque verruculosis, nervis utrinque 
