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ARTOCARPUS SUPERBA Becc. Nelle Foreste di Borneo (1902) 625. 
Mindanao, Zamboanga Subprovince, mountains back of Zam- 
boanga, Merrill 8280, December 6, 1911, in forests, altitude about 
400 meters ; Port Banga, For. Bur. 91 6U Whitford & Hutchinson. 
Basilan, For. Bur. 3989 Hutchinson. 
A very interesting addition to the rather meager list of species 
known only from the Philippines and Borneo. Although the 
Mindanao specimens are sterile, there appears to be no doubt 
as to the identity of the Bornean and Philippine plants. So far 
as the material goes, it agrees with Beccari’s description, and 
with specimens from Sarawak in the herbarium of the Bureau of 
Science, Foxworthy 3UU- The local name is given as pikpikuag 
(Sulu). 
CONOCEPHALUS Blume 
CONOCEPHALUS MOLLIS sp. nov. 
Frutex scandens subtus foliis molliter pubescens ; foliis oblon- 
gis, integris, late oblongis, usque ad 27 cm longis, basi rotundatis, 
apice acutis vel acuminatis, nervis utrinque circiter 15, subtus 
dense pubescens, supra cystolithis numerosissimis instructis; 
inflorescentiis $ diffusis, dichotomis, usque ad 27 cm latis, ca- 
pitulis numerosis, 4- ad 6-floris. 
A scandent shrub, the ultimate branches about 1.5 cm in. 
diameter, the young branchlets, inflorescences, and especially the 
lower surfaces of the leaves softly pubescent. Leaves charta- 
■ceous, broadly oblong, about 27 cm long, 16 cm wide, entire, base 
rounded, apex acute to acuminate, dull, of the same color, and 
greenish-olivaceous on both surfaces when dry, the lower surface 
softly and densely pubescent, the upper surface uniformly and 
densely covered with cystoliths, the cystoliths scattered and ra- 
diate ; lateral nerves about 15 on each side of the midrib, prom- 
inent; petioles about 8 cm long. Male inflorescences axillary, 
solitary, diffuse, repeatedly dichotomous, in anthesis up to 27 cm 
wide, short-peduncled, pubescent with scattered hairs, the very 
young ones with numerous, concave, imbricate, pubescent bracts 
about 1 cm in diameter. Male flowers numerous, all sessile, borne 
on the ultimate branchlets, usually a solitary sessile flower at the 
ultimate fork, with two lateral, peduncled heads of from 4 to 6 
flowers each. Perianth about 1.7 mm long, 4-toothed or lobed. 
Stamens 4, about 2 mm long, the anthers erect in bud. 
Samar, Ambalete, Bur. Sci. 17582 Ramos, April 7, 1914, in 
damp forests, the flowers white. 
A very characteristic species, at once distinguished by its 
leaves being softly and densely pubescent on the lower surface, 
