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Natiirlichen Pflanzenfamilien, although Bentham & Hooker reduce Phoebe to 
Persea. In the original description of the species the outer series of stamens are 
described as having extrorse anthers, and the other series to have introrse anthers. 
1 have reexamined the type number and the reverse seems to be the case, the 
outer two series having introrse anthers, and the inner series having extrorse 
anthers. Apparently allied to the Malayan Phoebe opaca Blume. 
DROSERACEJE. 
DROSERA Linn. 
Drosera burmanni Vahl Symb. 3 (1794) 50; Clarke in Hook. f. FI. Brit. 1ml. 
2 (1878) 424; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 78, Diels in Pflanzenreifh 26 ( 1 .)()*> ) 75. 
Luzon, District of Bontoc. For. Bur. 10095 Curran, January, 1909, altitude 
about 700 m. 
The fourth species of the genus for the Philippines, previously recorded from 
Panay by F.-Villar, but his record as to its occurring in the Archipelago not 
before verified. 
India and Ceylon to southern Japan, south to Malaya and northern Australia. 
HAM AM ELI I )A.CEA3. 
EMBOLANTHERA gen. nov. 
Calycis tubus ovario admit ns, limlms irregulai iter 2- vel 3-fidus, demum 
circumscisso-deciduus. Petala 5, lineari-elongata, basi utrinque valde 
aurieulata vel alata. Stamina 5, petalis alternantia, filamentis brevis- 
simis; antherae basifixae, loculis in valvis 2 vertiealiter dehiscentibus, 
connectivo longe producto. Ovarium inferum, 2-loculare; styli 2, sub- 
rdati, stigmatibus simplieibus; ovula in loculis solitaria, pendula. Arbor. 
Folia alterna, integra vel subintegra, persistentia, ovata vel oblonga, 
acuminata. Stipulae lanceolatae, membranaceae, deciduae, pectintae. 
Flores in spicas terminales densissime dispositi, calyce stellato-pubescente. 
Embolanthera spicata sp. nov. 
Arbor circiter 10 ni alta, glabra, inflorescentiis exceptis. Iiamis 
ramulisque tenuibus, griseis vel brunneis ; foliis alternis firmiter char- 
taceis, ovatis vel oblongis, usque ad 10 cm longis, apice breviter acuminatis, 
basi rotundatis, acutis vel acuminatis, leviter inaequilateralibus, nitidis. 
Spicis foliis aequantibus vel subaequantibus, densis; floribus albis, 
5-meris; petalis circiter 2 cm longis, 2 mm latis, basi utrinque valde 
auriculatis vel alatis ; staminibus 5, connectivo longe producto. 
A tree about 10 m high, glabrous or nearly so except the infloresence. 
Branches and branchlets terete, slender, gray or brown, slightly lenti- 
cellate. Leaves alternate, ovate to oblong, firmly chartaceous, shining, 
7 to 10 cm long, 2 to 5 cm wide, gradually narrowed upward to the 
short-acuminate apex, the base rounded, acute, or slightly acuminate, 
usually somewhat inequilateral, the margins entire, recurved, some- 
times slightly aculeate-denticulate near the apex; nerves 7 or 8 on 
