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viously described from the Philippines in its larger, more numerously 
nerved leaves. Its alliance is with T. philippinensis Elm. and T. polillensis 
C. B. Rob. The uniformly black and prominently shining leaves (when 
dry) is characteristic. 
Tl MON I US De Candolle 
TIMONIUS LONGISTIPULUS sp. nov. 
Frutex ut videtur scandens epiphyticus, partibus junioribus 
nodisque plus minusve ciliatis; foliis lanceolatis, coriaceis, niti- 
dis, usque ad 10 cm longis, valde caudato-acuminatis, basi acutis, 
petiolatis, nervis utrinque 4 vel 5, distinctis, reticulis obsoletis ; 
stipulis lanceolatis, 1.5 ad 2 cm longis, caducis; floribus axilla- 
ribus, solitariis, pedicellatis ; fructibus adpresse pubescentibus, 
calycis lobis persistentibus, longe acuminatis. 
Apparently an epiphytic more or less scandent shrub. 
Branches dark reddish-brown, terete, wrinkled when dry, slen- 
der, glabrous, the branchlets sometimes ferruginous-ciliate, their 
nodes prominently ciliate with long ferruginous hairs, the pe- 
tiolar scars prominent. Leaves 5 to 10 cm long, 1.5 to 2 cm 
wide, lanceolate, coriaceous, brown and shining on both surfaces 
when dry, the lower surface a little paler than the upper, 
more or less ciliate with long, appressed or spreading hairs on 
the nerves of the lower surface, in younger leaves also some- 
what ciliate on the margins and upper surface, the base acute, 
the apex long and slenderly caudate-acuminate; lateral nerves 4 
or 5 on each side of the midrib, slender but distinct on both 
surfaces, ascending, the reticulations obsolete; petioles 4 to 8 
mm long; stipules lanceolate, deciduous, brown, submembrana- 
ceous, glabrous, 1.5 to 2 cm long, 4 mm wide, long and slenderly 
caudate-acuminate. Flowers solitary, axillary, the pedicels in 
fruit about 1 cm long, with two large bracteoles at the apex 
subtending the fruit, these bracteoles ovate-lanceolate to oblong- 
ovate, acuminate, 5 to 6 mm long. Fruit depressed-globose, 
about 6 mm in diameter, appressed-pubescent, when dry more 
or less rugose, the persistent calyx 6 mm long, its tube about 2 
mm long and 2 mm thick, cylindric, the 4 lobes recurved or 
spreading, lanceolate, long and slenderly acuminate, 4 mm long. 
Pyrenes about 15, narrowly oblong-obovate, rounded at their 
apices, about 4 mm long. 
Leyte, Bur. Sci. 15371 Ramos, August 13, 1912, on trees in the mossy 
forest, mountains back of Dagami, the fruit green. 
A very characteristic species, manifestly allied to Timonius epiphyticus 
Elm., but still very different from that species. Prominent distinguishing 
characters are its very long stipules, its elongate and persistent calyx, 
and the prominent bracteoles subtending the fruit. 
