4. ARGOSTEMMA 
1. A. neesianum Walp. Nov. Act. Acad. Cur. 19 (1843) Sitppl. 1 : 340. 
(312G Merrill) October; (6657 Elmer) November; (97, 183, 435 Whltford) 
April, Jmie; (290 Copeland) January. On damp mossy ledges along streams 
100 to 600 m. Endemic. 
5. WENDLANDIA Bartl. 
1. Wendlandia brachyantha Merrill, sp. nov. 
A slirub or small tree about 5 m. high. Branches bi'own, glabrous, striate, 
the younger parts often densely ferruginous pubescent. Leaves oblong ovate to 
ovate lanceolate, coriaceous, entirely glabrous, or the midrib beneath somewhat 
jtubescent, 9 to 12 cm. long, 3 to 5 cm. wide, brown when dry, shining on both 
surfaces but somewhat paler beneath, entire, short acuminate, the base acute or 
obscurely rounded; nerves prominent beneath, 10 to 12 pairs; petioles 1 to 1.5 cm. 
long, pubescent or glabrous; stipules entire. Panicles terminal, pju’amidal, many 
flowered, 12 to 15 cm. long, very densely ferruginous pubescent in anthesis, 
becoming more or less glabrous in infrutescence, the lower branches about 5 
cm. long, the upper gradually shorter. Flowers white, sessile or short pedi- 
celled, about 4 mm. long, each subtended by one or two linear pubescent 
bracteoles. Calyx cup-shaped, 1.7 mm. long, densely p\ibescent, 5-toothed, the 
teeth short, acute. Corolla, including the lobes. 3 mm. long, glabrous or with 
few ciliate hairs on the inner side of the corolla lobes, the tube about 2 mm. 
long, the 5 lobes elliptical, rounded, reflexed, about 1 mm. long. Stamens equal- 
ing the corolla lobes; anthers 1 mm. long. Style 2 mm. long, glabrous; stigmas 
obovoid. Fruit ovoid oi' subglobose, aboiit 2 mm. in diameter, pubescent with 
few short scattered hairs, crowned by the persistent calyx lobes. 
(449 'Whit ford) July, 1904 (type). On exposed ridges in the mossy forests 
at 1,100 m. Also No. 3834 Merrill, Mount Arayat, Province of Pampanga, Luzon, 
l\Iay, 1904, at an altitude of 870 m. 
A species at once distinguishable from Wendlandia luzoniensis L)C., by its 
smaller glabrous leaves and very short flowers. Wendlandia panioulata Elmer, 
in herb., non DC. 
6. UNCARIA Schreb. 
1. U. sp. 
(Wliitford) . In thickets below 100 m., sterile S])ecimeii. 
7. NAUCLEA Linn. 
1. N. media Flaviland, Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 33 (1897) 56. 
(3125 Merrill) October; (2817 Meyer) March. In forests, I'iver canon 100 to 
450 m. Endemic. 
2. N. philippinensis (Vid.) Haviland 1. c. 52. 
(2625 Meyer) February; (1158 Whitford) March. In forests 600 to 900 m. 
Endemic. 
8. SARCOCEPHALUS Afzel. 
1. S. cordatus Miq. ; Haviland 1. c. 27. 
(374 Whitford) June; (727, 1263. 1386. 1391, 1568 Borden) May to August. 
In thickets and forests below 150 m., widely distributed in the Philippines. 
Southeastern Asia to Malaya and Australia. T., Banc.al. 
9. MUSSJENDA Liun. 
1. M . grandiflora (Meyen) Rolfe, Journ. Linn. Soc. But. 21 (1884) 311. 
(6095 Leihery) July; (1220 Borden) June; (388, 524 Whitford) June, July; 
