SERTULUM BONTOCENSE. 
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chartaceous, glabrous, 4 to 7.5 cm long, 4 to 8 mm wide, straight 
or slightly falcate, the base acute, the apex acuminate; lateral 
nerves obscure, ascending, irregular; petioles 1 to 1.5 mm long. 
Flowers pale-green, subcapitately racemose at the tips of the 
branches, the peduncles and rachis appressed-pubescent, 5 to 6 
mm long, the pedicels pubescent, about 0.5 mm long. Perianth 
cylindric, in anthesis about 8 mm long, 1.5 mm in diameter, 
slightly appressed-pubescent externally, 4-lobed, the lobes orbi- 
cular-ovate, rounded, about 1 mm long. Stamens eight, 2-seriate, 
arranged in the upper part of the perianth-tube, the anthers 
0.8 to 1 mm long. Ovary oblong; style very short; stigma 
capitate, 0.5 mm in diameter. Fruit fleshy, red, ovoid, about 
7 mm long. 
Luzon, Bontoc Subprovince, Bauco, Vanoverbergh iSO (type), April 26, 
1910, altitude about 1,260 m, locally known to the Ilocanos as suca; also 
represented by Bur. Sci. 5831 Ramos, Sablan River, Benguet, December, 1908. 
A species well characterized by its very narrow, elongated leaves. It is 
allied to Wikstroemia lanceolata Merr., but is distinguished by its relatively 
longer and narrower leaves. 
PRIMULACEAE. 
LYSIMACHIA L. 
Lysimachia capillipes Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 26 (1889) 48; 
Pax & Knuth in Engl. Pflanzenreich 22 (1905) 270. 
Luzon, Benguet Subprovince, Baguio, in thickets, limestone ravines, 
altitude about 1,500 m, Williams 1153, June, 1904, Phil. PI. 8Ji.5 Merrill, May, 
1911: Bontoc Subprovince, Gaddac, in forests, altitude 1,300 m, Vanover- 
bergh 723, August, 1910. 
This species has previously been known only from China, and is with 
some doubt recorded from the Philippines under Hemsley’s name. The 
specimen collected by Williams was so identified by Dr. C. B. Robinson, but 
not recorded as it did not agree in all characters with the description of 
Lysimachia capillipes Hemsl. The petioles of the Philippine specimens are 
5 to 10 mm long, the leaves are distinctly acuminate, and the pedicels in 
fruit attain a length of 3 cm. Comparison of Philippine material with 
authentic specimens of Hemsley’s species is desirable, but for the present it 
is considered advisable to refer our material to L. capillipes, pending such 
comparison. 
China. 
Lysimachia decurrens Forst. f. Prodr. (1786) 12; Pax & Knuth in Engl. 
Pflanzenreich 22 (1905) 296. 
Luzon, Benguet Subprovince, Mount Tonglon, Williams 1289, 1904, Phil. 
PI. 738 Merrill, May, 1911, altitude about 1,900 m: Bontoc Subprovince, 
Cuayo, Vanoverbergh 596, June, 1910, altitude 1,200 m; Bauco Vanoverbergh 
1189, April, 1911, altitude about 1,250 m. 
Not common and of local occurrence, apparently in the Philippines con- 
fined to the Mountain Province, Luzon. India to China and Formosa 
southward to Java, Timor, and New Caledonia. 
