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femiginnus ])ul)escoiit. Leaves 10 to 20 cm. long, 5 to 12 cm. wide, 
siiluuemhranons, the base broad, cordate, usiiall}^ somewliat iuefjuilateral. 
the apex acuminate, the margins rather tinely irregularly serrate, puljes- 
eent on the nerves and midrib above, ])alev and rather densely stellate 
])ubescent beneatli, the l)ase 5-nerved, the lateral nerves })rominent, 5 
to ti on each side of tlie mididb, ascending, the reticulations rather lax; 
]H‘tioles 5 to 10 mm. long, densely pubescent. Inllorescence of axillary, 
pednncled cymes 1 to 7 cm. long, the ])eduncles, l)ranclies, pedicels, and 
calyces densely nniformly ferruginous stellate ])nbescent, the peduncles 
1.5 to 3 cm. long. Pedicels about 5 mm. long. Sepals free, oblong, 
acute, 7 to 8 mm. long, aliont 2.5 mm. wide, densely stellate' ])ubescent 
outside, glabrous inside. Petals 5, aliout (i mm. long, 1.5 to 2 mm. wide, 
acute, glabrous except at the thickened base which is rather densely 
pubescent. Stamens indefinite, inserted on the inside of a shoi-t densely 
villous disk; tihunents slender, glabrous, 3 to 4 mm. long; anthers broad, 
aljout 0.5 mm. long. Ovary sessile, oblong, densely villous, 3-celled, 
each cell many ovuled. Style about 1.5 mm. long, expanded upward 
into the hroad somewhat cleft stigma. Ca])sule nearly 1 cm. long, 
triangular, 3-valved, the style persistent, the valves ])ale and glaljrous 
inside, densely ferruginous villous outside. Seeds manv, 1.5 to 2 mm. 
long, compressed, the hairs of the arillus long. 
1..UZOX, Province of Pvizal. Aiiti])olo (.39S Ahern’s collector) February, 1904; 
Bosoboso (1101 Aliern.'s collector) .Tune, 1904. Mindoro. .Bougaboug- Riv'er (1391 
Whitford) January, 1900. 
Tbe fir.st species of tbc genus to be reported from the lOiilippines, did'ering from 
all other descrilied-ones in its 3-valved capsules. Of tbe three other known species 
of the genus one is found in -Java, one in the Fiji Islands, and one in Perak and 
Ibe. Nicobar Islands. 
IMALVACE.Ll 
ABELMOSCHUS Medik.. 
Abelmoschus luzoniensis INIenill sp. nov. .1. nioschal ns Perk. Frag. FI. Phili]). 
(1904) 111, in part. 
An erect, herbaceous, somewhat branched annual, the vegetative por- 
tions densely velntinons jmbescent and with scattered simple or stel- 
lately dis])osed bristle-like hairs, the bracteoles 5 to 7, ovate-lanceolate. 
Rranches terete, the pubescence and liristh'S cinereous to fulvous, the latter 
few or many. Leaves U to 15 cm. long, cordate, dee])ly jialmately 5-lobed, 
rather densely puliesceiit on both surface's and with few or many stellately 
disposed bristle-like hairs, the outer lobes short, the others 7 to 13 cm. 
long, lanceolate, rather coarsely lyrately lobed, acuminate; jietioles 8 cm. 
long or h'ss, densely puliescent and witli few bristles; stijeules linear, 
about 7 mm. long. Flowers forming terminal racemes, yellow, the 
jX'dicels eepialing the petioles, similarly ])nbescent. Bracteoles ovate', 
lanceolate to oblong, ,5 to 7, at length deciduous, 1 to 2.5 cm. long. 
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