XIV. 4 Merrill: Noteworthy Philippine Plants, XV 401 
Among those species with verticillate leaves Polyosma longi- 
petiolata is strikingly characterized by its glabrous branches; 
unusually long-petioled, glabrous, entire leaves; and its very 
unequal bracteoles. 
PITTOSPORACEAE 
CITRIOBATUS A. Cunningham 
CITRIOBATUS JAVAN ICUS Boerl. & Koord. in Ic. Bogor. 1 (1901) t. 77. 
Luzon, Batangas Province, Mount San Pedro, Bur. Sci. 223U3 
Ramos, August 20, 1914, in thickets at low altitudes. 
With the exception of this one species the small genus Citrio- 
batus is confined to Australia. The Philippine specimens were 
distributed unidentified, as without flowers I could not determine 
the group to which they belonged. I am now, however, able 
to name the material by a direct comparison with a series of 
five specimens from Java, including duplicates of three numbers 
of Koorders’s collection on which the species was based. The 
Philippine specimens agree with the Javan ones in all respects. 
PITTOSPORUM Banks 
PITTOSPORUM PSEUDOSTIPITATUM sp. nov. 
Frutex glaber, ramulis tenuibus; foliis verticillatis, 3- vel 4- 
natis, anguste lanceolatis, 4 ad 6 cm longis, utrinque angustatis, 
apice tenuiter acuminatis, nervis tenuibus; fructibus terminali- 
bus, fasciculatis, tenuiter pedunculatis, obovoideis, 2-valvis, basi 
tenuiter stipitatis, stipite circiter 4 mm longo, partibus semini- 
feris 6 ad 7 mm longis, 6 mm diametro. 
A glabrous shrub, about 3 m high, the branches and branch- 
lets slender, terete. Leaves verticillate, usually 3 or 4 at a node, 
coriaceous, narrowly lanceolate, 4 to 6 cm long, 6 to 13 mm 
wide, narrowed below to the acute or acuminate base and above 
to the very slenderly acuminate apex, the tip with a distinct 
cartilaginous mucro, the upper surface olivaceous to black when 
dry, shining; lateral nerves slender, scarcely more distinct than 
are the reticulations ; petioles about 5 mm long. Fruits fascicled 
at the tips of the branchlets, 2 to 4 in a fascicle, their pedicels 
slender, about 1 cm long, the capsule obovoid, black when dry, 
2-valved, the lower part narrowed into a distinct pseudostalk, 
the thickened portion of the capsule 6 to 7 mm long, about 6 
mm in diameter, the entire capsule, including the pseudostalk, 
about 1 cm long. 
Luzon, Ilocos Norte Province, Mount Nagapatan, Bur. Sci. 
S3 127 Ramos, August 8, 1918, on dry slopes, altitude about 700 
meters. 
