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The Philippine Journal of Science 
1914 
tered hairs, 3-nerved, 3 to 3.5 mm long, 1.5 mm wide. Petals 
yellow, oblong-elliptic, rounded, 5-nerved, 3.5 mm long, 2 mm 
wide, base somewhat narrowed, the basal scale orbicular, 0.3 
mm in diameter, 0.5 mm from the base of the petal. Filaments 
1 to 1.5 mm long; anthers elliptic-ovate, 1 mm long. Heads 
ovoid to subglobose, 6 to 8 mm in diameter. Achenes compressed, 
glabrous, smooth, inequilaterally ovate, 3.5 to 4 mm long, about 
2 mm wide, the beak short, more or less curved, less than 1 
mm long. 
Luzon, Subprovince of Bontoc, Bauco, Vanoverbergh 36^7, May 24, 1913, 
along small streams, altitude 1,660 meters. 
A species manifestly closely allied to the Australian Ranunculus plebeius 
R. Br., and to the New Zealand R. hirtus Banks & Sol., the latter reduced 
by some authors to the former. It differs from our material of R. hirtus 
Banks & Sol., and from the descriptions of both species in being less 
hirsute, in its smaller flowers, and in its somewhat larger achenes. The 
second species of the genus to be found in the Philippines, and like 
Ranunuclus philippinensis Merr. & Rolfe it finds its closest allies in 
Australia and New Zealand and not in the much closer Asiatic region. 
HERNANDIACEAE 
SLLIGERA Blume 
ILLIGERA PUBESCENS sp. nov. 
Frutex scandens, omnibus partibus plus minusve pubescen- 
tibus; foliis 3-foliolatis, foliolis subcoriaceis, ovatis, integris, 
usque ad 9 cm longis, basi late rotundatis, apice obtusis vel 
latissime breviter acuminatis, nervis utrinque 5, supra parce 
hirsuto-scabridis, subtus parce hirsutis; infructescentiis elonga- 
tis, fructibus 2-alatis, 2 cm longis, cum alis 4.5 cm latis. 
A scandent shrub 3 to 4 m in height, all parts more or less 
pubescent, the branches striate, rather softly pilose, terete. 
Leaves 3-foliolate, their petioles about 7 cm long, rather densely 
pubescent at the somewhat swollen base and at the apex. Leaf- 
lets ovate, entire, subcoriaceous, 7 to 9 cm long, 5 to 6 cm wide, 
slightly shining when dry, the lower surface somewhat paler 
than the upper, the base broadly rounded, the apex obtuse or 
very broadly, obscurely, blunt-acuminate, upper surface some- 
what hirsute-scabrid, the lower hirsute, especially on the midrib 
and nerves; lateral nerves 5 on each side of the midrib, dis- 
tinct; petiolules densely pubescent, 1.5 to 2 cm long. Flowers 
not seen, but apparently in cymes, each cyme subtended by a 
leaf. Infructescence leafless, about 40 cm long, forming a rather 
narrowly pyramidal panicle, the branches spreading, distant, the 
