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culis axillaribus, usque ad 35 cm longis, densissirne velutinis, 
angustis ; floribus 8 infundibuliformibus, circiter 6.5 mm longis, 
lobis oblongo-ovatis, liberis, acutis, rubris, in siccitate purpureis, 
extus velutinis, intus dense villosis. 
A tall tree, the trunk said to be about 1 m in diameter, the 
branches and branchlets terete, brown, the latter 1 to 1.5 cm in 
diameter, marked with large petiolar scars, puberulent. Leaves 
crowded at the ends of the branchlets, ovate, entire, subcoria- 
ceous, 15 to 25 cm long, 10 to 17 cm wide, the upper surface 
greenish-olivaceous when dry, glabrous, shining, the lower paler, 
minutely stellate-puberulent, the minute tufts of hairs scattered, 
the indumentum not covering the entire surface, apex abruptly 
and very shortly acuminate, the base truncate-rounded, not cor- 
date, 7- or 9-nerved; lateral nerves about 10 on each side of the 
midrib, prominent; stipules few, linear, accuminate, deciduous, 
about 5 mm long ; petioles 3 to 12 cm long, puberulent, ultimately 
glabrous. Panicles axillary, rather numerous, narrow, up to 35 
cm in length, all parts densely velutinous with pale-brownish or 
purplish hairs, the branches scattered, spreading, the lower ones 
up to 7 cm in length, rather few flowered. Flowers red when 
fresh, usually purplish when dry, funnel-shaped, 6 to 7 mm long, 
outside densely velutinous, inside densely villous, the lobes 5, 
oblong-ovate, acute, 2.5 mm long. Staminal column slender, 
about 3 mm long ; anthers about 10, forming a globose head about 
1 mm in diameter. 
Samar, Catubig River at Cagmanaba, Bur. Sci. 21*5^9 Ramos (type), 
February 28, 1916. Luzon, Province of Camarines, Sagnay, Bur. Sci. 
22138 Ramos, December 17, 1913, in damp forests at low altitudes, locally 
known in Samar as palapangui. 
A species well characterized by its thickened branches, few stipules, 
rather large, ovate, shortly acuminate, entire leaves which are minutely 
stellate-puberulent on the lower surface with scattered hairs, and its 
elongated, lax, densely velutinous panicles. It is perhaps as closely allied 
to Sterculia wigmanni Hochr. as to any other species, but it has very much 
larger flowers, a different indumentum, and different leaves. 
THEACEAE 
TERNSTROEM I A Mutis 
TERNSTROEMIA PHILSPPINENSIS sp. nov. 
Arbor glabra, circiter 15 m alta ; foliis crasse coriaceis, nitidis, 
in siccitate brunneis vel olivaceis, oblongis ad oblongo-oblanceo- 
latis, usque ad 25 cm longis, breviter obtuseque acuminatis, basi 
angustatis, cuneatis, nervis utrinque circiter 12, indistinctis, 
pagina inferiore nigro-puncticulatis vel glandulosis ; floribus 
