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MERRILL. 
LITOSANTHES Blume. 
L. biflora Blume Cat. Gew. Buitenzorg (1823) 21; Bijdr. (1826) 994; Miq. 
FI. Ind. Bat. 2 (1857) 314; DC. Prodr. 4 (1830) 465. 
Luzon, Province of Sorsogon, Adlumay Hills, For. Bur. 12383 Curran, June, 
1908. Mindoro, Mount Halcon, Merrill 6112, November, 1906; Mount Sablanga, 
For. Bur. 11002 Merritt, March, 1908; Mount Teluti, For. Bur. lllftS Merritt, 
May, 1908. Negros, Elmer. 
The first representative of this small genus to be found in the Philippines; 
Java and Celebes. 
Two species have been described from New Guinea. 
NAUCLEA I. inn. 
Nauclea jagori sp. nov. 
Arbor vel arbuscula glabra; foliis lanceolatis vel anguste lanceolatis, 
longe sensim acuminatis, 8 ad 20 cm longis, 9 ad 18 mm latis, basi 
angustatis, subeoriaceis, nitidis, nervis utrinque circiter 15; capitulis 
solitariis, circiter 3 cm diametro stylis exclnsis ; corolla glabra, 1 cm 
longa. 
s A shrill) or tree, glabrous. Branches grayish-brown, terete, the branch- 
lets somewhat compressed. Leaves lanceolate or narrowly lanceolate, 
8 to 20 cm long, 9 to 18 mm wide, subcoriaceous, shining, brownish when 
dry, the base narrowed, acute, the apex long and gradually acuminate; 
nerves about 15 on each side of the midrib, not prominent, obscurely 
anastomosing, the reticulations indistinct; petioles 3 to 7 mm long; 
stipules oblong, obtuse, 12 to 15 mm long,- 3 mm wide, slightly hirsute 
below, caducous. Heads solitary, the peduncles about 3 cm long, the 
bracts, if any, caducous, the heads, excluding the long exserted styles, 
about 3 cm in diameter. Corolla 1 cm long, glabrous, widened upward, 
the lobes oblong, obtuse, 2.5 mm long, 1 mm wide. Anthers 1.7 mm long. 
Style about 1.5 cm long; stigma about 2.5 mm long, swollen in the 
middle. Cocci 8 mm long; seeds, including the narrow, acuminate wings, 
4 mm long, slightly pubescent. 
Samar, F. Jagor 987, in Herb. Berol. 
A very characteristic species, at once distinguished from most hitherto described 
ones in the genus by its very narrow leaves. It is apparently allied to Nauclea 
angustifolia Havil., of Borneo, and N. chalmersii F. Muell., of New Guinea, both 
of which have very narrow leaves, but the present species differs from these in 
its more numerously nerved leaves and larger flowers. 
PLECTRONIA Linn. 
Plectronia megacarpa sp. nov. 
Arbor glabra circiter 15 m alta; foliis coriaceis, elliptico-ovatis vel 
obovato-elliptieis, circiter 20 cm longis, brunneis, nitidis, apice rotundatis 
vel late obscure acuminatis, basi cuneatis, nervis utrinque circiter 8, 
prominentibus, nervulis obscuris; fructibus axillaribus, pedicellatis, obo- 
voideis, compressis vel trigonis, 2- vel 3-locellatis, 1.5 cm longis, apice 
truncatis vel retusis, basi acutis. 
