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6. Follicles subcylindric, usually straight, not or but slightly inflated, 
about 4 cm long 7. C. hallieri 
6. Follicles inflated, 2.5 cm long or less. 
7. Petals free throughout 8. C. mindanaensis 
7. Petals fx-ee below, inflated, but above the ovary their margins 
adherent, forming a narrow short tube 9. C. whitfordii 
4. Leaflets more or less ferruginous-pubescent beneath; follicles large, 
woody, 5 cm long . 10. C. subinaequifolius 
1. Connarus trifoliatus (Turcz.) Eolfe in Journ. Bot. 23 (1885) 212 (tri- 
foliolatus) ; Vidal Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 103; Ceron Cat. PI. Herb. (Manila) 
(1892) 59. 
Anisostemon trifoliatus Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 20 1 (1847) 152. 
Connarus polyanthus Planch, in Linnaea 23 (1850) 428; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. I 1 
(1859) 665; Walp. Ann. 2 (1851) 300. 
Connarus rolfei Vidal Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 106. 
Luzon, Province of Albay, Cuming S51, type collection of Anisostemon trifolia- 
tus, Connarus polyanthus, and C. rolfei. Negros, Gimugaan River, For. Bur. 
4299 Everett. Mindanao, Province of Surigao, Bolster 316; Lake Lanao, Camp 
Keithley, Mrs. Clemens 332. 
This species has received three distinct specific names, all based on the same 
number of Cuming’s Philippine collection, the oldest being Anisostemon trifoliatus 
Turcz., which is here retained. Vidal 6 erroneously refers to Connarus polyanthus 
Planch. Cuming 1465, and this species is so written up in the Kew Herbarium. 
The specimen is however not at all like Planchon’s species, nor is it cited by that 
author. 
Endemic. 
2. Connarus stellatus sp. nov. 
Frutex scandens, ramulis, foliis junioribus, paniculisque densissime 
pubescentia stellato-plumosa obtectis; foliis eirciter 20 cm longis, impari- 
pinnatis, foliolis 7, lanceolate subcoriaceis, nitidis, basi acutis, apice 
acuminatis ; panicnlis terminalibus, folia aequantibus, pyramidatis ; sepalis 
densissime stellato-tomentosis ; petalis obtnsis, plus minus punctatis, extus 
puberulis; staminibus 10, inaequalibus ; carpellis dense pubescentibus ; 
stylo 4 mm longo. 
A scandent shrub, the young branches, leaves, and the inflorescence 
densely covered with brown-stellate-plumose indumentum, the leaflets ulti- 
mately glabrous or nearly so. Branches light-yellowish-gray, lenticellate, 
glabrous. Leaves about 20 cm long, the rachis and petiolules densely 
brown-stellate-plumose; leaflets 7, the lower ones alternate, the upper 
opposite, lanceolate, subcoriaceous, brown, shining, in age glabrous or 
nearly so, 6 to 10 cm long, 2 to 3 cm wide, base acute, apex slightly 
acuminate, acumen blunt; nerves 6 or 7 on each side of the midrib, not 
prominent, ascending, the reticulations rather close ; petiolules 2 to 3 mm 
long. Panicle terminal, pyramidal, about as long as the leaves, very 
densely covered with brown stellate-tomentose indumentum. Sepals lan- 
ceolate, acuminate, about 3 mm long, densely stellate-pubescent. Petals 
Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 106, Rev. PI. Vase. (1886) 103. 
