17, 3 Merrill: Noteworthy Philippine Plants, XVI 249 
lobes broadly ovate, reticulate, 6 mm long and 8 mm wide, sta- 
mens 6, free, the filaments about 1 mm in length. Capsules 
slender, somewhat torulose when dry, about 4 cm long and 4 
mm in diameter. 
Mindanao, Surigao Province, Bur. Sci. 34811 (type), 34369 
Ramos & Pascasio, April and May, 1919, in forests along small 
streams at low altitudes. To this species I also refer Merrill 
10490 from Alabat and Bur. Sci. 13370 Ramos from Tayabas 
Province, Luzon, both of which were originally identified as 
Bragantia affinis Planch. 
The alliance of this species is manifestly with Bragantia 
affinis Planch., a species definitely known only from Panay. 
It is distinguished from the latter especially by its much shorter 
petioles. 
MENISPERMACEAE 
FIBRAUREA Loureiro 
FIBRAUREA CHLOROLEUCA Miers in Ann. Nat. Hist. Ill 13 (1864) 
489; Diels in Engl. Pflanzenreich 46 (1910) 120, /. 13 . 
Binagat, Bur. Sci. 35224, 35229 Ramos & Pascasio, May 12, 
1919, in forests along small streams at low altitudes. 
This is the first record of this genus as Philippine, the speci- 
mens cited above coming well within the range of variation of 
Miers’s species as represented by ample material before me from 
Borneo, Sumatra, Java, and the Malay Peninsula, although the 
inflorescences are 30 cm in length; the longest inflorescence 
on the extra-Philippine material available for comparison is 25 
cm, while Diels gives the maximum as 20 cm. The species ex- 
tends from Burma, through Malaya, to Celebes. 
MAGNOLIACEAE 
TALAUMA Jussieu 
TALAUMA RETICULATA sp. nov. 
Arbor glabra, pedunculis ramulisque exceptis glabra; foliis 
anguste oblongis ad oblongo-oblanceolatis, 24 ad 34 cm longis, 
5 ad 7.5 cm latis, crasse coriaceis, nitidis, deorsum angustatis, 
basi cuneatis, apice acutis vel breviter acuminatis, nervis utrin- 
que circiter 14, cum reticulis valde perspicuis; carpellis ut vi- 
detur paucis 1.5 ad 3 cm longis, 1 ad 1.5 cm latis, obtusis, haud 
rostratis. 
A small tree, glabrous except the peduncles and very young 
branchlets, the latter about 5 mm in diameter. Leaves nar- 
rowly oblong to oblong-oblanceolate, 24 to 34 cm long, 5 to 7.5 
