NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VII. 
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The Mindanao specimens do not agree perfectly with Galearia filifonnis as 
described by Robert Brown and Mueller-Arg., but in the absence of authentic 
material for comparison, I can do no better, at the present time, than refer them 
here. The chief point of difference seems to be that the petals of the Philippine 
specimens are not strongly cucullate. Hooker f. 7 states that the sections founded 
by Mueller-Arg. on the hooded petals are not tenable. The genus is new to the 
Philippines. 
Java. 
GELONIUM Roxb. 
Gelonium racemulosum sp. nov. 
Arbuscula glabra eirciter 1 m alta; foliis oblongis vel lanceolate- 
oblongis, pallidis, nitidis, glanduloso-pnnctatis, usque ad 20 cm longis, 
versus apicem grosse irregulariter repando-dentatis, basi acutis vel acu- 
minatis ; inflorescentiis masculinis oppositifoliis, racemulis binis, pauci- 
floris, brevibus, petiolo vix longioribus ; sepalis obtusis, plus minus 
cucullatis; staminibus eirciter 16; fructibus depresso-globosis, eirciter 
1 cm diametro, plus minus trigonis, loculicide dehiscentibus. 
A shrub or undershrub about 1 m high, glabrous throughout. Branches 
grayish, slender, the ultimate ones slightly angled. Leaves alternate, 
glabrous, pale when dry, glandular-punctate, shining, oblong to lanceo- 
late-oblong, 9 to 20 cm long, 2.5 to 4 cm wide, chartaceous, the apex 
acuminate, the apical portion very coarsely and irregularly repand- 
dentate, otherwise entire,, the base acute or slightly acuminate ; nerves 
about 12 on each side of the midrib, anastomosing, the reticulations 
distinct; petioles stout, 3 to 4 mm long. Staminate flowers racemose, 
leaf-opposed, the racemes in pairs, scarcely as long as the petioles, few- 
flowered, flowering from the base to the apex, the lower flowers opening 
first and falling, so that there is usually but two or three flowers on a 
raceme, the rachis slender, the pedicel-scars prominent. Sepals elliptic 
or elliptic-ovate, obtuse, 3 mm long, 2 mm wide, more or less cucullate, 
imbricate. Stamens about 16 ; filaments free, 2 mm long ; anthers oblong, 
0.8 mm long. Disk-glands small. Rudimentary ovary none. Pistillate 
flowers unknown, but the calyx, from the fruit, as in the staminate ones. 
Fruit depressed-globose, glabrous, about 1 cm in diameter, obtusely 
trigonous, 3-celled, loculicidally 3-valved, each cell 1-seeded; styles per- 
sistent, free, each shortly cleft, the arms very short, recurved. 
Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Port Banga, For. Bur. 9260, 93-'i9 Whitford 
cC- Hutchinson, January, 1908, in dipterocarp forests 20 to 30 m above sea level. 
A species well characterized by its leaves being coarsely repand in the apical 
portion, and especially by its paired, short racemes, the staminate flowers of most 
species of the genus being glomerate. 
85754 6 
FI. Brit. Ind. 5 (1887) 377. 
