NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VIII. 
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Not previously reported from the Philippines; India to Amur and Manchuria, 
Japan, China and Formosa: reported also from Timor. As in China, the species 
is very variable in the Philippines. 
Viola diffusa Ging in DC. Prodr. T (1824) 293; Forbes & Hemsl. 1. c. 52. 
Luzon, District of Lepanto, Balili, Merrill Jf612, November, 1905, growing in 
crevices of rocks on terraces of coffee plantations. 
Himalaya and Khasia Mountains to China and Formosa; not previously re- 
ported from the Philippines. ■ 
Viola mearnsii sp. nov. 
Planta nana, glabra, acaulis, vix stolonifera, 2 ad 3 cm alta; foliis 
ovatis vel late cordato-ovatis, acutis vel obtusis, crenatis, membranaceis, 
1 ad 1.5 cm longis, basi cordatis; stipulis lineari-lanceolatis, acuminatis, 
4 ad 5 mm longis, parce setaceo-dentatis ; bracteolis 2, linearibns, circiter 
4 mm longis; floribns albis, circiter 6.5 mm longis, calcare saccato. 
A small, glabrous, acaulescent, hon-stoloniferous plant 2 to 3 cm high 
or less. Leaves membranaceous, ovate or broadly cordate-ovate, obtuse or 
acute, base strongly cordate, the lobes and sinus rounded, margins cre- 
nate, 1 to 1.5 cm long, nearly as wide; petioles slender 1 to 1.5 cm long; 
stipules linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 4 to 5 mm long, slightly setaceous- 
dentate. Peduncles about 3 cm long, often shorter, slender, glabrous, 
bearing above the middle a pair of linear bracts about 4 mm long. 
Flowers white, solitary, about 6.5 mm long. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, 
acuminate, glabrous, 3 mm long, 3-nerved. Spur ovoid, saccate, 2 mm 
long or less. 
Mindanao, Province of Misamis, Mount Malindang, For. Bur. J/625 Mearns & 
Hutchinson (type), May, 1906. Two specimens from Luzon are apparently 
referable here, Copeland s. n., from Mount Banajao, Province of Laguna, and 
Bur. Sci. JfSIO Mearns from Pauai, Province of Benguet. 
RINOREA Aubl. 
Rinorea acuminata sp. nov. § Prothesia. 
Arbuscula circiter 2.5 m alta subglabra, ramulis junioribus inflores- 
centiisque exceptis; foliis membranaceis vel chartaceis, nitidis, oblongis 
vel anguste oblongo-ellipticis, apice valde tenuiter acuminatis, basi acutis, 
nervis utrinque circiter 18, prominentibus ; cymis axillaribus, brevibus, 
ferrugineo-pubescentibus ; staminibus inclusis, antheris liberis. 
A shrub about 2.5 m high, the branchlets and inflorescence rather 
densely ferruginous-pubescent, the branches gray, ultimately glabrous, 
lenticellate. Leaves membranaceous or chartaceous, oblong or narrowly 
oblong-elliptic, about 20 cm long, 7 to 8 cm wide, shining, glabrous, or 
when young with very few hairs beneath, especially on the midrib, the 
apex strongly and slenderly sharp-acuminate, base acute, margins sub- 
entire, very obscurely glandular-crenate, or very obscurely glandular- 
undulate; nerves about 18 on each side of the midrib, prominent, the 
reticulations subparallel; petioles pubescent or glabrous, 1 to 1.5 cm 
long. Cymes axillary, few-flowered, about as long as the petioles, fer- 
