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MERRILL. 
Arbor usque ad 15 m alta; foliis elliptico-ovatis ad ovato-lanceolatis, 
acuminatis, 8 ad 15 cm longis, supra glabris vel subglabris, albido- 
verruculosis, subtus dense pallide stellato-puberulis ; cymis terminalibus, 
densis; floribus circiter 8 mm longis ; fructibus circiter 13 mm diametro, 
calycibus persistentibus vix inflat is. - 
A tree reaching a height of 15 m. Leaves elliptic-ovate to .ovate- 
lanceolate, acuminate, 8 to 15 cm long, 3 to 6 cm wide, subcoriaceous, 
subentire or the margins above obscurely undulate-crenate, the upper 
surface glabrous or nearly so, rather densely white-verrucose, beneath 
paler and densely stellate-puberulent ; nerves 5 to 7 on each side of the 
midrib, distinct beneath, the reticulations dense; petioles densely puber- 
ulent, 5 to 7 mm long. Cymes terminal, sometimes in the upper axils, in 
anthesis rather dense, becoming rather diffuse in fruit, densely puberulent. 
Flowers nearly 8 mm long and 10 mm in diameter. Calyx densely 
puberulent, funnel-shaped, 5 mm long, equally 5-toothed, the teeth tri- 
angular-ovate, 2 mm long. Corolla-tube for the lower 1 to 1.5 mm 
cylindric, about 5 mm in diameter, then abruptly enlarged, the lobes 
elliptic-ovate, obtuse, about 4 mm long, the throat villous inside. Fila- 
ments about 8 mm Long, slender, somewhat exserted. Fruit about 13 mm 
long, 5 to 6 mm in diameter, the persistent calyx enclosing the drupe but 
not inflated, densely puberulent with pale-brownish indumentum, the 
drupe about 8 mm long. 
Luzon, Province of Batangas, Cuming llf32 (type number), For. Bur. 771^6 
Currcm & Merritt, November, 1907, the latter growing in rather open brush lands 
at an altitude of about 50 m, locally known as malapangit. 
As no description of the above species has ever been published, a short one 
has been given above. Cuming’s specimen was referred by Schauer to Tectona 
hamiltoniana Wall., but Bentham & Hooker f. were undoubtedly right in specifi- 
cally separating the Philippine plant from the Asiatic one. It is manifestly closely 
allied to Wallich’s species, but differs remarkably in the nature of the indumen- 
tum, which in T. hamiltomana Wall, is tomentose or stellately wooly, and in the 
present species minutely and very densely puberulent. 
Cuming’s plant has been localized from his own list of localities preserved 
in his correspondence with Sir William Hooker at Kew, and is undoubtedly 
correct. 
LABIATiE. 
SALVIA Linn. 
Salvia scaphiformis Hanee in Journ. Bot. 23 (1885) 368: Forbes & Hemsl. 
in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 26 (1890) 287. 
Luzon, Province of Nueva Vizcaya, Merrill 17 ^ : Province of Abra, Bur. Sci. 
7206 Ramos: Province of Benguet, Elmer 5831f, 8637. 
Not previously reported from the Philippines; Formosa, and Szechuen, China. 
