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description in Latin, taken entirely from Blanco’s original description, and states 
that he had seen no specimens. An examination of Blanco’s description shows 
that it applies unmistakably to Kosteletzkya, and F.-Villar was quite correct in 
making the transfer to the latter genus. On studying the above specimens, I 
found that they agreed with none of the descriptions of the various species of 
Kosteletzkya, other than Blanco’s but- thinking that the species might be an 
introduced one here, I sent specimens to Kew for comparison, and received the 
following communication: “The specimen of Kosteletzkya batacensis does not 
match any of the species in the Kew Herbarium, from America or elsewhere, 
and in view of the wide distribution of the genus, America, Mediterranean region, 
Tropical Africa and Madagascar, the existence of an endemic Philippine species 
is not theoretically improbable.” Blanco’s type was from the town of Batac, Prov- 
ince of Ilocos Norte, Luzon, and the species is probably endemic in the Philip- 
pines. 
STERCULIACE2E. 
LEPTON YCHl A Turcz. 
Leptonychia banahaensis (Elmer) comb. nov. 
Grewia banahaensis Elmer Leaf!. Philip. Bot. 1 (1908) 319. 
Arbuscula glabra vel subglabra, circiter 3 m alta ; foliis alternis, 
glabris vel subglabris, lanceolatis vel oblongo-laneeolatis, 7 ad 13 cm 
longis, nitidis, membranaceis vel submembranaceis, apice caudato-aeu- 
minatis, basi obtusis vel subrotundatis, minute glanduloso-punctatis, 
subtus in axillis glandulosis; nervis utrinque 5, ascendentibus, prominen- 
tibus; floribus axillaribus, solitariis, pedicellatis ; petalis orbicularibus 
vel ovato-orbicularibus, pubescentibus, circiter 2 mm longis, liberis ; 
staminibus 10, 5-aclelphis, basi in annulo connatis ; staminoideis ex- 
terioribus nullis, interioribus 5, brevibus, phalangibus alternantibus ; 
ovario 3-loculare ; fructibus ovoideis vel obovoideis, glabris, rugosis, 3- vel 
abortu 2- vel 1-locularibus, loculicicle dehiscentibus, loculis 1-spermis; 
seminibus ovoideis, glabris, leviter compressis, nitidis, circiter 1.3 cm 
longis, arillatis. 
Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Lucban, Elmer 7569, May, 1906, type number: 
Province of Laguna, Santa Maria Mavitae, For. Bur. 10069 Curran, February, 
1908; Mabalucbaluc Pass. Bur. Sci. 6044 Robinson, March, 1908. 
The first representative of the genus to be found in the Philippines, and 
erroneously described by Mr. Elmer as a Grewia, of the Tilaceae. The species 
strongly resembles the Malayan Leptonychia heteroclita (Roxb.) Kurz., but differs 
in the total absence of the external row of staminodes. 
GUTTIFERAE. 
CALOPH YLLUM Linn. 
Calophyllum auriculatum sp. nov. § Apetalum. 
Arbor circiter 20 m alta, glabra, gemmis ferrugineo-puberulis exceptis, 
ramis teretibus, griseis, ramulis crassiusculis, in sicco valcle angulatis sul- 
catisque; foliis subsessilibus vel breviter petiolatis, coriaceis, nitidis, 
oblongo-ellipticis vel oblongo-obovatis, apice obtusis vel rotundatis, rariter 
subacutis, basi distincte auriculatis. Inflorescentiis axillaribus, solitariis 
