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glabrous outside, inside at the throat supplied with a dense 
line of stiff hairs about as long as the lobe. Anthers 1 mm long, 
base sparingly retrorse-bearded. Ovary ovoid, glabrous, some- 
what longer than the style. Fruit ellipsoid, brown, smooth, 
shining w r hen dry, about 1 cm long, the pericarp crustaceous. 
Seed solitary, somewhat hemispheric, flattened on one side, about 
8 mm long. 
Leyte, near Taeloban, Wenzel 1319 (type), 1569, and two sheets without 
number, flowering in June, fruiting in February, 1915. Samar, Catubig 
River at Mount Capatoan, Bur. Sci. 2^381 Ramos, February 20, 1916, in 
fruit. 
The species grows in forests at low and medium altitudes, and is known 
in Samar as mara igasud, and in Leyte as igasud, the latter being the 
proper name of the entirely different Strychnos ignatii Berg. Strychnos 
wenzelii Merr. is a very distinct and characteristic species, readily dis- 
tinguishable by its castaneous, strongly shining leaves, and its small, one- 
seeded fruits. Its alliance is with Strychnos horsfieldiana Miq., from which, 
however, it differs in many details, its leaves not attenuate-acuminate, 
5-nerved rather than 3-nerved, quite glabrous beneath, its glabrous branches 
and branchlets, and its corolla entirely glabrous externally. 
VERBENACEAE 
PREMNA Linnaeus 
PREMNA STELLATA sp. nov. 
Arbor 5 ad 10 m alta, subtus foliis ad costa nervisque petiolis 
inflorescentiisque plus minusve cinereo- vel subferrugineo- sim- 
pliciter stellato-tomentosis ; foliis chartaceis, ovatis ad oblongo- 
ovatis, usque ad 20 cm longis, integris, nitidis, apice abrupte 
acuminatis, basi late rotundatis ad subtruncatis, nervis utrinque 
4 ad 6, subtus valde prominentibus ; inflorescentiis terminalibus, 
corymbosis, pedunculatis, usque ad 11 cm latis; floribus extus 
stellato-tomentosis, calycis obscure bilabiatis, subaequaliter 5-den- 
tatis ; corolla 5 mm longa, labium superius cucullatum, orbiculari- 
rotundatum, usque ad 2.5 mm diametro, inferius trifidum. 
A tree 5 to 10 m high, the branchlets densely stellate-tomen- 
tose, the leaves on the lower surface, especially on the midrib 
and lateral nerves rather sparingly so, the inflorescence distinctly, 
and when young, densely stellate-tomentose. Branches terete, 
or the younger ones compressed, pale-brownish, glabrous, the 
branchlets stellate-tomentose, all the hairs stellate, no plumose 
and no simple ones intermixed. Leaves chartaceous, pale or 
olivaceous when dry, somewhat shining, ovate to oblong-ovate, 
entire, 9 to 20 cm long, 7 to 12 cm wide, the apex abruptly 
acuminate, the acumen blunt or acute, 1 cm long or less, the 
base broadly rounded or subtruncate, not cordate, the upper 
