NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VIII. 187 
An erect or scandent shrub or a tree. Leaves elliptic-oblong, coria- 
ceous, glabrous, shining, about 6 cm long, 2.5 cm wide, abruptly narrowed 
at both base and apex which are obtuse or rounded; nerves about 8 on 
each side of the midrib, anastomosing, the reticulations rather close, 
distinct on both surfaces. Racemes compound, about 8 cm long, slightly 
pubescent, the pedicels about 10 mm long, scattered along the rachis, each 
subtended by a 1 mm long bracteole, and bearing at about the middle 
an additional bracteole subtending a sessile or shortly pedicelled bud. 
Calyx-gland very prominent, 1.5 to 2 mm long. Sepals 1.5 to 2 mm 
long, obtuse. Petals 3 to 4 mm long, rounded. 
Luzon, Province of Zambales, Vidal 22 43 in Herb. Kew. 
This form has as yet not been rediscovered in the Philippines, and is described 
from the single specimen preserved in the Kew herbarium. It is well charac- 
terized by its elliptic-oblong, glabrous, shining, reticulate, blunt leaves, and by its 
comparatively small flowers. 
2. Hiptage pubescens sp. nov. 
Arbor parva usque ad 5 m alta, ramulis, subtus foliis, inflorescentiisque 
dense pallide adpresse sericeo-pubescentibus ; foliis coriaceis, elliptico- 
oblongis vel oblongo-lanceolatis, acuminatis, basi rotundatis vel acutis; 
racemis axillaribus foliis subaequalibus vel longioribus; carpellis vix 1.5 
cm longis. 
A small tree 4 to 5 m high (9 m according to Ramos). Branches 
brown or gray, terete, lenticellate, glabrous, the young branchlets densely 
and pale-silky-pubescent. Leaves opposite, coriaceous, elliptic-oblong to 
oblong-lanceolate, 5 to 8 cm long, 1.5 to 2.5 cm wide, glabrous and 
shining above, on the lower surface densely covered with pale, appressed, 
silky hairs; the base rounded or sometimes somewhat acute, the apex 
distinctly, often strongly and gradually acuminate; nerves 7 or 8 on each 
side of the midrib, not prominent, obscurely anastomosing, obscured on 
the lower surface by the pubescence, but the hairs sometimes rubbing 
off, the veins then appearing brown in contrast to the pale surface of 
the leaf ; petioles 2 to 3 mm long, pubescent. Racemes axillary, solitary, 
about as long as the leaves, sometimes crowded in the upper axils and 
simulating a terminal inflorescence, many-flowered, densely silky-pubescent 
with pale appressed hairs, the pedicels 5 to 7 mm long. Flowers yellow 
or red, about 1 cm in diameter when open. Sepals obtuse, the gland 
prominent. Petals 5 to 6 mm long, obtuse, pubescent. Fruit of two 
carpels, somewhat pubescent, the central wing of -each carpel 10 to 12 
mm long, about 5 mm wide, rounded or obtuse, the two lateral ones 
similar but less than' one-half as long, and truncate or rounded. 
Luzon, Province of Abra, Mount Paraga, Bur. Sci. 7257 ■ Ramos, February, 
1909 (type) : Lepanto-Bontoc, For. Bur. 11263 Klemme, February, 1908, altitude 
about 1,200 m: Province of Ilocos Norte, Mount Piao, For. Bur. 13979 Merritt & 
Darling, altitude about 1,000 m. 
This species is readily recognizable by its comparatively small leaves and small 
