NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VII. 
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A glabrous tree about 15 m high. Branches brownish, terete or 
slightly compressed. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-ovate or obovate-elliptic, 
about 20 cm long, 9 to 11 cm wide, the upper surface brown, shining, 
the lower paler, dull, margins somewhat recurved, apex broad, rounded, 
or broadly and obscurely blunt-acuminate, base cuneate, sometimes slightly 
acuminate; nerves about 8 on each side of the midrib, prominent, the 
nervules and reticulations obscure; petioles stout, 2 to 2.5 cm long; 
stipules deciduous, ovate, acuminate, less than 5 mm long. Flowers 
unknown. Infrutescence axillary, umbellate, the peduncle stout, about 5 
mm long, the pedicels 1.5 to 3 cm long. Fruit yellow when fresh, 1.5 
cm long, obovoid, trigonous and three-celled, or somewhat compressed and 
two-celled, nearly 1.5 cm' thick above the middle, the. apex truncate or 
retuse, the base acute. 
Luzon, Province of Zambales, near Santa Cruz, altitude 100 m, For. Bur . 8232 
Curran <t- Merritt, December, 1907. 
A species apparently allied to Plectronia glabra (Blume) Kurz, but with 
different fruits and leaves. 
Tl MON I US Rumpli. 
Timonius appendiculatus sp. nov. 
Arbor parva, circiter 8 m alta, glabra; foliis coriaceis oblongis vel 
anguste elliptico-oblongis, usque ad 10 cm longis, basi plus minus decur- 
rento-aeuminatis, apice acutis vel obtusis, nervis lateralibus obscuris ; 
cymis axillaribus, pauciramosis, foliis multo brevioribus ; floribus 4-meris, 
unilateraliter spicatis, lobis corollae recurvatis, 3-appendiculatis; drupis 
globosis, obscure 12-sulcatis, polypyrenis. 
A small tree glabrous throughout. Branches reddish-brown or grayish, 
terete, wrinkled when dry. Leaves coriaceous, oblong to narrowly ellip- 
tic-oblong, rather pale when dry, slightly^ shining, the apex acute or 
blunt, the base somewhat decurrent-acuminate, 6 to 10 cm long, 2 to 3 
cm wide; lateral nerves few, obscure, and, with the reticulations, nearly 
obsolete; petioles less than 1 cm long; stipules annular, truncate, very 
short. Cymes in the upper axils, about 3 cm long, peduncled, with 
usually but two branches, the flowers spicately arranged on one side of 
the branches only, sessile, articulated with the rachis. Calyx cupular, 
about 3 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, truncate. Corolla about 9 mm long, 
tubular, the lobes 4, reflexed, narrowly ovate, acute, about 2 mm long, 
and with three retrorse appendages near the apex, the two lateral ones 
about 1 mm long, the terminal one shorter. Filaments short, inserted 
at the throat or just below it; anthers linear, nearly 5 mm long, their 
tips slightly exserted; style about 3 mm long.- Fruit globose, shining, 
obscurely about 12-sulcate, crowned by the truncate calyx, about 5 mm in 
diameter, about 12-celled, and containing about 25 pyrenes. 
Luzon, Province of Rizal, Bosoboso, Bur. Sci. 2164, 2651 Ramos, January, May, 
1907, the former with staminate flowers, the latter with fruit. Mindoro, Mount 
Agong, For. Bur. 9867 Merritt. 
