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the rachis, branches and pedicels pubernlent and with intermixed longer 
hairs. Flowers small. Calyx-lobes narrowly ovate, less than 0.5 mm 
long, pubescent. Corolla rotate, 1.8 mm long, the tube short, the lobes 
elliptic, rounded. Ovary depressed-globose, glabrous. Fruit ovate, com- 
pressed, 5 mm long, 4 mm wide, not ribbed, or with an obscure rib on 
one side. 
Luzon, Province of Abra, Mount Paraga, Bur. Sci. 7 07 4 Ramos, February, 
1909, the altitude given as about 600 m. 
A species manifestly allied to Viburnum luzonicum Rolfe, but distinguished 
from that species by its nearly glabrous leaves which are less acuminate, more 
strongly toothed, rounded and inequilateral at the base, as well as by its dense 
inflorescence. 
Viburnum glaberrimum sp. nov. § Euviburnum, Lantana ? 
Arbor parva, glabra, ramis ramulisque crassis, valde lenticellatis ; foliis 
coriaceis, glabris, nitidis, obovatis, integris, apice rotundatis, obtusis, vel 
late obtuse acuminatis, basi obtusis vel leviter decurreuti-acuminatis, 
nervis utrincjue 6 ad 8, prominentibus ; inflorescentiis terminalibus, umbe- 
llato-corymbosis ; corollae tubo cylindraceo, lobis erec-tis. 
A small tree, glabrous throughout. Branches and branchlets stout, 
terete, dark-reddish-brown, strongly lenticellate. Leaves coriaceous, shin- 
ing, obovate, entire, the apex broad, rounded, obtuse, or sometimes broadly 
and obtusely acuminate, the base obtuse or slightly decurrent-acuminate, 
8 to 14 cm long, 6 to 8 cm wide ; nerves 6 to 8 on each side of the midrib, 
very prominent beneath, the reticulations not distinct; petioles stout, 3 
to 4 cm long. Inflorescence terminal, about 5 peduncles at the tip of 
each branch, forming an umbellate corymb, the peduncles 4 to 5 cm long. 
Calyx-tube short, the teeth very small, rounded, about 0.4 mm long. 
Corolla cyclindric, 5 mm long, thick, the tube 3 mm long, the erect, 
elliptic, obtuse lobes 2 mm long. Filaments about 5 mm long ; anthers 
exserted, 2 mm in length. Ovary 1-celled. Fruit (immature) elliptic, 
compressed. 
Luzon, Province of Pangasinan, near Imogen, For. Bur. 15SJ/S Merritt, Decem- 
ber, 1908, in forests 300 to 450 m altitude. 
A species manifestly allied to Viburnum coriaceum Blume of the Indo-Malayan 
region, but at the same time very distinct, especially in its vegetative characters. 
CUCURBIT ACE M. 
GYNOSTEMMA Blume. 
Gynostemma simpl icifolia Blume Bijdr. (1825) 23; Cogn. in DC. Monog. 
Phan. 3 (1881) 915. 
Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Sax River, Williams 2119, February, 1905. 
New to the Philippines and the fourth species of the genus for the Archipelago; 
previously known only from Java. 
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