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eter, their pedicels 5 to 7 mm long, with several minute obtuse 
bracteoles scattered between the base and apex, crowned by the 
five, usually indexed, short, acute perianth lobes. 
Amboina, Hoetoemoeri road, Rel. Robins. 1810, September 30, 1913, in 
forests, altitude about 30 meters, indicated thus: “tree, woody vine, small.” 
The specimen looks as though it came from a scandent plant. 
A species well marked by its fruit characters. 
H ENSLOW I A Blume 
HENSLOWIA ROBINSONII sp. nov. 
Frutex parisiticus glaber, foliis obovatis ad elliptico-obovatis, 
coriaceis, in siccitate brunneis, usque ad 9 cm longis, apice ro- 
tundatis, basi cuneatis, 5- vel 7-nerviis, distincte petiolatis, petiolo 
0.5 ad 1.5 cm longo; fructibus breviter pedicellatis, 7 ad 8 mm 
longis, oblongis, sursum angustatis, subrostratis, solitariis vel in 
racemis 2 ad 15 cm longis dispositis. 
A parasitic glabrous shrub, the branches terete, brown, the 
branchlets dark reddish-brown, somewhat angular or compressed. 
Leaves obovate to elliptic-obovate, 3.5 to 9 cm long, 1.5 to 5 
cm wide, coriaceous, dark-brown when dry, dull, apex rounded, 
base narrowed, cuneate, slenderly 5- or 7-nerved; petioles 
0.5 to 1.5 cm long. Fruits shortly pedicelled, rarely solitary, 
mostly in racemes which vary in length from 2 to 15 cm, the 
racemes sometimes with a few very greatly reduced leaves, 
usually leafless, the pedicels 1 to 1.5 mm long, with several minute 
bracteoles forming a small involucre at the base of the fruit, also 
with others at the base of the pedicels and usually one or two 
intermediate ones. Fruits oblong, reddish when fresh, brown 
when dry, 7 to 8 mm long, narrowed upward and subrostrate, 
crowned by the five, short, oblong-ovate, acute or subacute 
perianth lobes. 
Amboina, Ayer putri, Rel. Robins. 1809, July 29, 1913, parasitic on trees 
at an altitude of about 10 meters, shrubby with a tendency to become 
scandent. 
This species is apparently allied to Henslowia reinwardtiana Blume of 
the Sunda Islands, and to H. spicala Blume of Borneo, but is well character- 
ized by its distinctly pedicelled fruits which are usually arranged in 
racemes, very rarely solitary, the racemes varying in length from 2 to 15 
cm. 
OPILIACEAE 
CHAM PEREIA Griffith 
CHAM PEREiA MANILLANA (Blume) Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 7 
(1912) 233. 
Cansjera manillana Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 1 (1850) 246. 
Opilia manillana Baill. Adansonia 3 (1862) 124. 
Opilia cumingiana Baill. 1. c. 
