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each side of the midrib, prominent beneath, anastomosing, the retic- 
ulations lax; petioles 5 to 10 mm long. Stipules deciduous, mem- 
branaceous, usually lanceolate, acuminate, 5 mm long or less, somewhat 
appressed-pubescent on the back, the margins below prominently pectinate, 
the tips of the teeth glandular. Spikes as long as the leaves or some- 
times shorter, about 2.5 cm in diameter, densely many-flowered, the 
rachis somewhat pubescent, the bracteoles linear, pubescent, 1.5 mm long. 
Flowers white, sessile. Calyx-tube short, adtiate to the ovary, pale- 
stellate-pubescent outside, the limb splitting irregularly into two- or 
three ovate, acute or acuminate lobes, 4 to 5 mm long, membranaceous, 
somewhat reticulate-veined, stellate-pubescent outside, finally circumscis- 
sile and deciduous. Petals 5, about 2 cm long, 1.8 to 2 mm wide, the basal 
3 mm strongly auricled, including the auricles 3 mm wide, narrowed 
above the auricles to 1 mm, incurved, and then linear-elongate, mem- 
branous, nerved, about 2 mm wide, acuminate. Staminodes none, unless 
represented by the auricles to the petals. Stamens 5, alternate with the 
petals, and inserted with them ; filaments adnate to the corolla and falling 
with it, stout, about 1 mm long; anthers ovoid, about 1 mm long, the 
cells opening laterally each by two valves, the connective produced as a 
straight, 2 mm long, awn. Ovary inferior, 2-eelled, each cell with a 
single pendulous ovule, the top of the ovary pubescent; styles 2, less 
than 1 mm long, slender; stigmas minute. Fruit unknown. 
Palawan, Victoria Peak, Bur. Sci. 739 Foxioorthy, March 24, 1906. A spread- 
ing tree about 10 m high, with a trunk 15 to 20 cm in diameter growing on the 
river bank at an altitude of about 250 m above the sea. 
The genus above proposed is allied to Maingaya Oliver, of Penang and Perak, 
and to Loropetalum R. Br., of India and China, differing from both in its spieate 
infloresence, and in the strongly auriculate bases of the petals, from the former 
also in its different calyx and absence of staminodes, and from the latter also 
in its 4-merous flowers. It is apparently more closely allied to Maingaya than 
to Loropetalum, but seems to be distinct from both, and from all other hitherto 
described genera. But one genus of the family, Sycops.is, was previously known 
from the Philippines. 
ROSACE2E. 
PARINARIUM Aubl. 
Parinarium curranii nom. nov. 
Parinarium racemosum Merr. in Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 17 (1904) 19; 
non Vidal Cat. PI. Prov. Manila (1S80) 29. 
MaSbate, Merrill 2 61.j, May, 190.3 (type). Luzon, Province of Albay, For. 
Bur. 10575 Curran, June, 1908. 
The original name of this species is invalidated by Parinarium racemosum 
Vidal, and accordingly the above new name is proposed for it. Vidal’s species 
is not enumerated in Index Ivewensis. 
