PHILIPPINE PLANTS, IX. 
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A tree about 10 m high, more or less densely tomentose, the 
branches terete, reddish-brown, the younger ones covered with 
a somewhat deciduous, white or somewhat brownish tomentum. 
Leaves oblong-ovate, often subrhomboidal, subcoriaceous, 5 to 
8 cm long, 3 to 5 cm long, entire, somewhat inequilateral, the base 
broad, rounded or subtruncate, not cordate or auriculate, the 
apex shortly and sharply acuminate, the upper surface glabrous, 
shining, the lower surface densely white-tomentose, or the 
tomentum somewhat brownish ; lateral nerves distinct, ascending, 
3 or 4 on each side of the midrib; petioles 5 mm long or less, 
tomentose. Flowers terminal and in the upper axils, forming a 
distinct and rather many-flowered panicle, their pedicels, or 
pedicels and the ultimate branchlets, 2 to 5 cm long, each with 
several scattered bracteoles which are lanceolate, acuminate, 
about 6 mm long, and somewhat sagittate at the base by a pair of 
prominent, rounded auricles. Buds densely brown-stellate- 
pubescent externally, cylindric, oblong. Sepals about 5.5 cm 
long, 5 mm wide, acuminate, inside appressed pubescent with 
grayish hairs. Petals thin, about 4 cm long, 7 mm wide. Sterile 
stamens five, 3.5 to 4 cm long, the fertile ones 15, including the 
8 mm long linear anthers, 2.5 cm in length. Ovary pubescent; 
style 3.5 cm long. Immature capsules cylindric, glabrous, nar- 
rowly oblong, about 4 cm long. 
Camiguin de Mindanao, Bur. Sci. H632 Ramos, April 9, 1912, in forests. 
Mount Mahinog, flowers yellow, fragrant. 
A species manifestly closely allied to Pterospermum niveum Vid., which 
it greatly resembles, differing in its somewhat smaller leaves which are 
not at all cordate or auriculate at the base, but are rounded or subtruncate 
and much less inequilateral than in Vidal’s species, and in its paniculate, 
long-pedicelled flowers. 
DILLENIACEAE. 
DILLENIA L. 
DILLENIA BOLSTER I sp. nov. § Wormia .? 
Arbor circiter 10 m alta, foliis junioribus ramulis inflores- 
centiisque plus minusve pilosis; foliis ellipticis vel oblongo-ellip- 
ticis, acute acuminatis, basi acutis vel rotundatis, margine 
serratis, usque ad 25 cm longis, nervis utrinque circiter 17 ; 
inflorescentiis in axillis superioribus terminalibusque, 2 ad 5- 
floris; floribus albidis, circiter 6 cm diametro; stylis 8 vel 10. 
A tree about 10 m high. Branches terete, reddish-brown, 
glabrous, the branchlets appressed-pilose, rarely nearly glabrous. 
Leaves alternate, elliptic to oblong-elliptic, subcoriaceous, 10 to 
25 cm long, 4 to 10 cm wide, more or less pilose when young. 
