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bracteoles at the apex, these bracteoles about 4.5 mm long, 2.5 
mm wide at the base, gradually narrowed upward, closely ap- 
pressed to the calyx. Calyx-tube broadly funnel-shaped, densely 
tomentose outside, the limb also pubescent within, about 4 mm 
high, 5 mm in diameter, the lobes chartaceous, glandular, broadly 
elliptic-ovate, rounded, up to 8 mm long and 6 mm wide. Petals 
4, deciduous, free, obliquely ovate-reniform, rounded, about 1.5 
cm long. Stamens indefinite, the filaments slender, up to 12 
mm long; anthers 1 to 1.2 mm long. 
H. L. W. Costenoble 1172, collected at Hilaan, August, 1906, locally 
known as aabang, sheets Nos. 653736, 653737 U. S. National Herbarium. 
Well characterized by its pubescent younger parts, and especially by its 
solitary, axillary, long-peduncled flowers, the calyx-tube being densely 
tomentose outside and the somewhat produced limb pubescent on the inside. 
Another species of the genus, apparently also undescribed, is represented 
by G. E. S. 359, but the specimens are not quite mature. 
PSIDIUM Linnaeus 
PSIDIUM GUAJAVA Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 470; Safford 361. 
McGregor 525, G. E. S. 3U7, UU7, locally known as abas. 
A native of tropical America, now widely distributed in all hot countries. 
SAFFORD I ELLA genus novum 
Genus Baeckeae simillima et affinis, dilfert fructibus carnosis, 
baccatis, indehiscentibus. 
SAFFORD I ELLA BENNIGSENIANA (Volkens) comb. nov. 
Leptospermum bennigsenianum Volkens in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 30 (1902) 
470. 
McGregor U75, October, 1911, hills back of Piti, altitude about 100 meters, 
a shrub, one meter or less in height, with white flowers. 
Leptospermum bennigsenianum Volkens is rather imperfectly described, 
and was based on two specimens from Yap, Caroline Islands ( Volkens 277, 
S70), both of which are represented in the herbarium of the Bureau of 
Science. In habit the plant strongly resembles both Baeckea and Lepto- 
spermum. The leaves, however, are always opposite, a character not indi- 
cated by Volkens, and a character that at once excludes the plant from 
Leptospermum. The ovary is 3-celled, with two superposed ovules in each 
cell. The stamens are 1-seriate, not, or at least very obscurely, arranged 
in groups. The flowers are solitary and each has, immediately below the 
calyx, two, linear, 3 to 4 mm. long bracteoles. 
The striking character of the plant, and the one depended on in char- 
acterizing it as a new genus, is its soft, fleshy, berry-like fruit, which is 
crowned by the calyx-lobes, and which is entirely indehiscent. When 
mature the fruit is rather bright-red, and the pericarp is very soft and 
fleshy. Each contains three, subglobose, hard, seeds or seed-like cocci about 
