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MERRILL. 
A very characteristic species, differing from typical Timonius in its appendaged 
corolla-lobes, but in other characters typical, readily recognized by the above 
character, its few-branched cymes, 4-merous, sessile flowers in unilateral spikes, 
and its nearly nerveless leaves. 
XANTHOPHYTUM Reinw. 
Xanthophytum fruticulosum Reinw. ex Blume Bidjr. (1826) 839; Miq. FI. 
Ind. Bat. 2 (1857) 175. 
Metabolus ferrugineus DC. Prodr. 4 (1830) 436. 
Sclerococcus Bartl. 1. c., as syn. 
Xanthophytum villarii Vidal Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 150. 
Lasianthus pilosus F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 112, non Wight. 
Luzon, without locality, Haenke in Herb. Prague, type of Metabolus ferru- 
gineus DC.; Province of Rizal, San Mateo, Vidal '392, in Herb. Kew, type of 
X. villarii Vidal. 
I have examined both of the above specimens, and can see no reason for 
distinguishing one from the other, or either from Reinwardt’s species. Vidal’s 
specimen lias smaller leaves than Haenke’s, but in all essential characters they 
appear to be the same, and after a cursory examination of Javan specimens and 
a careful comparison of the Philippine material with the descriptions of X. 
fruticulosum, I do not hesitate to reduce both DeCandolle’s and Vidal’s species 
to Reinwardt’s. Miquel 1. e., had already reduced Metabolus ferrugineus to 
Xanthophytum fruticulosum, without however giving the range of the species as 
extending to the Philippines. An interesting species known only from Java, 
Borneo, and Luzon. 
CAPRIFOLIACE2E. 
VIBURNUM Linn. 
Viburnum floribundum sp. nov. § Euviburnum., Opulus. 
Frutex circiter 2 m alta, subglabra vel parce pubescenti ; foliis ovatis, 
usque ad 7 cm longis, chartaceis, nitidis, supra glabris, subtus in axillis 
barbatis, apice acutis vel acuminatis, basi inequilateraliter rotundatis, 
margine serrato-dentatis, nervis utrinque 5, prominentibus ; cymis termi- 
nalibus, umbellato-paniculatis, dense multifloris ; corolla rotata. 
A shrub about 2 m high. Branches and branchlets terete, grayish- or 
reddish-brown, rather stout, glabrous, the branchlets minutely puberulent 
and with few scattered long hairs. Leaves ovate, 4 to 7 cm long, 2 to 4 
cm wide, chartaceous, shining on both surfaces, the apex acute or acumi- 
nate, the base somewhat narrowed, rounded, inequilateral, the margins 
especially in the upper half, rather strongly serrate-dentate, the upper 
surface, glabrous, or the midrib sometimes slightly puberulent, the lower 
surface glabrous except the midrib and primary nerves which are often 
slightly pubescent, and the axils of the primary nerves which are barbate ; 
nerves 5 on each side of the midrib, ascending, very prominent, the 
reticulations distinct; petioles about 5 mm long, somewhat pubescent. 
Inflorescence terminal, paniculate-umbellate, intermixed frequently with 
small leaves, rather dense, 5 to 7 cm in diameter, very many flowered. 
