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brown rarely somewhat grayish. Leaves opposite, oblong or elliptic- 
oblong, 12.5 to 3 cm long, 7 to 12 mm wide, firmly chartaceous or sub- 
coriaceous, shining, narrowed and acute at both ends or the apex very 
shortly apiculate-acuminate, glandular-punctate, beneath slightly glau- 
cous; nerves 5 to 7 on each side of the midrib, slender, obscure, the 
reticulations obsolete; petioles very short or none. Flowers white, axi- 
llary, solitary, about 2 cm in diameter, their pedicels about 1 cm long, 
with three or four pairs of short imbricate bracteoles at the base. Sepals 
ovate, acute or obscurely acuminate, 1.5 mm long. Petals oblong-obovate, 
inequilateral, 10 to 12 mm long, 6 to 7 mm wide, apex more or less 
obliquely subtruncate or rounded. Stamens 5-adelphous ; filaments 5 to 
9 mm long. Ovary and style 11 mm long, the former narrowly oblong- 
ovoid, 5-eelled, the latter consisting of five entirely united styles. Cap- 
sules about 10 mm long, 3 mm in diameter, crowned by the style, septici- 
clally 5-va-lved ; seeds 1 mm long, thick-spindle-shaped. 
Lt'zox, Province of Benguet, Ambuldao, Loher 66 in Herb. Kew. ; Mount Ugo, 
Bur. Sci. 5716 Ramos, December, 1908: Province of Zambales, Mount Pinatubo, 
Bur. Sci. 2562 Foxivorthy, April, 1907. 
A species apparently most closely allied to Hypericum formosanum Maxim., 
and H. giraldii Keller. 
FLACOURTIACEJE. 
AHERN I A gen. nov. 
Flores hermaphroditi. Sepala 4 vel 5, imbricata, in petala transeuntes. 
Petala 10 ad 15, sepalis consimilia seel interiora gradatim angustiora. 
Stamina indefinita, epipetala vel perigyna, filamentis filiformibus, elonga- 
tis ; antherae parvae, abbreviatae, loculis longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. 
Ovarium ovoideum vel ellipsoicleum, 1-loculare, placentae 5, oo-ovulatae; 
stylus simplex; stigmate minuto, obscure 3-lobato vel subdisciforme. 
Fructus ovoideus vel ellipsoideus, oo-spermus, pericarpio crustaceo, 
obscure longitudinaliter sulcato, indehiscente. Semina obovoidea, plus 
minus compressa. Arbor subglabra. Folia alterna, chartacea vel sub- 
membranacea, acuminata, integra vel supra obscure repando-crenata, basi 
5-nervia vel 5-plinervia, 2-glandulosa. Flores mediocres in racemis sim- 
plicibus axillaribus dispositi. 
A hernia gland ulosa sp. nov. 
Arbor subglabra 8 ad 15 m alta; foliis alternis, ovatis vel oblongo- 
ovatis, usque ad 15 cm longis, chartaceis vel submembranaceis, acuminatis, 
basi obtusis, rotundatis vel subtruncatis, 2-glandulosis, 5-nerviis vel 5- 
plinerviis ; floribus circiter 1 cm longis, in racemis axillaribus solitariis 
dispositis, hermaphroditis. 
A tree 8 to 15 m high, glabrous except the infloresence and fruits. 
Branches terete, brownish-gray, glabrous, obscurely lenticellate. Leaves 
alternate, estipulate, ovate or oblong-ovate, chartaceous or submembra- 
naceous, 9 to 15 cm long, 4 to 8 cm wide, glabrous, shining and nearly 
