76 
2. B. acuminata Miiell. Arg. 1. c. 442. 
(6422, 6763 Elmer) November; (399 Whifford) June; (0107 Leiherg) July; 
(2189, 3009 Meyer) December, May; (1495 Ahern’s collector) July. In thickets 
and forests 25 to 300 m. Endemic. 
6. CYCLOSTEMON Blume. 
1. C. bordenii Merr. GoA’t. Lab. Publ. 17 (1904) 20. 
(071, 073, 2372, 2395 Borden) May, January; (2398, 2415, 2819 Meyer) Jan- 
uary, March; (1031 Whitford) December; (333, 542, 546, 503, 573 Barnes) 
February, March; (182 Merrill) Decades Philip. Forest Fh, coll. Borden, May. In 
forests 100 to 500 in. Endemic. T., Diki dilu, Talimorung. 
2. C. cumingii PailL; Muell. Arg. 1. c. 485. 
(1269, 1275 Whitford) May. On blud's along the seashore. Endemic. 
3. C. monospermus Merrill, sp. nov. § Stenogynium. 
A tree 4 to 12 m. high. Branches light gray or brownish, striate, glabrous, 
lenticellate. Leaves coriaceous, elliptical oblong to broadly oblong lanceolate, 
4 to 9 cm. long, 1 to 4 cm. wide, the apex rounded, blunt or very obscurely broadly 
acuminate, refuse, the base acute, regular or very slightly inequilateral, glabrous, 
shining above, dull beneath, the pi'imary nerves 8 or 9 on each side of the midrib, 
obscure, anastomosing, the secondary veins and reticulations nearly as prominent; 
petioles glabrous, 5 to 8 mm. long. Male flowers fascicled, on short axillary 
or extra-axillary bracteate peduncles, the buds globose. Sepals 4, broadly ellip- 
tical-ovate to suborbicular ovate, rounded, glabrous except the slightly ciliate 
margins, about 2 mm. long. Stamens 4; filaments 2 mm. long, glabrous; anthers 
elliptical-ovoid, about 1 mm. long the alternating disk segments thick, fleshy, 
nari'owlj^ ovate, al)Out 1 mm. long. Female flowers with calyx of the male. 
Ovary ovoid, glabrous, 2-celled, each cell 2-ovuled, the disk annular; style O; 
stigmas dilated, fleshy, more or less connate into a somewhat lobed disk. Fruit 
about 1 cm. long, 8 mm. in diameter, glabrous, fleshy, white, becoming gray or 
blackish when dry, ovoid or ellipsoid, 1-eel led, 1 -seeded. 
(2802, 3122, 3235 Meyerj March, May, June; (1232 Whitford) April; (1225 
Borden) June. In the uppei' forests and on exposed ridges in the mossy forest 
050 to 1,250 m. 
4. C. microphyllus Merr. 1. c. 27. 
(2200 Meyer) December; (175, 494 Barnes) January, November; (252, 340, 
1027, 1229 Whitford) May, December, April; (040, 072, 836 bis, 1253, 2329 
Borden) April, .June, December. In forests 100 to 800 m. Endemic. T., Tulu- 
inonnty, Irani, Pangirani, Tangnaranig. 
1. APOROSA Blume. 
1. Aporosa sph^ridophora INlerrill, sp. nov. 
A tree 10 to 15 m. high. Branches dark reddish lu'own, striate, glabrous, the 
older ones more or less grayish. Leaves alternate, subcoriaceous, ovate to oblong 
or elliptical ovate, acuminate, the base acute, rarely somewhat rounded, often 
somewhat inequilateral, 8 to 15 cm. long, 3 to 7 cm. wide, glabrous, dark colored 
and dull or shining above, ])aler and shining beneath; nerves rather obscure 
above, somewhat prominent beneath, ascending, 0 to 7 on each side of the midrib, 
the reticulations distinct; petioles 1.5 to 2 cm. long, glabrous, somewhat swollen 
and rugose above. Male flowers yellow, in dense, more or less interrupted, 
simple, axillary spikes 2 to 5 cm. long, the rhachis and bracts ferruginous p\ibes- 
cent, the bracts subreniform, to broadly ovate, about 1.5 mm. long. Sepals 4, in 
two series, rounded at the apex, pubescent, 1 to 1.2 mm. long, the two inner ones 
smaller than the two outer. Stamens 2; filaments glabrous, 2 to 2.5 nun. long; 
