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ANODENDRON LOHERI sp. nov. 
Frutex alte scandens glaber; foliis lanceolatis ad anguste 
elliptico-lanceolatis, utrinque acutis vel leviter acuminatis, usque 
ad 10 cm longis, nervis utrinque circiter 9, obscuris; paniculis 
terminalibus, parvis, pedunculatis, multifloris ; corollae tube intus 
villosus, 4 ad 5 mm longus. 
A glabrous scandent shrub reaching a height of 10 m or more, 
the branches slender, reddish-brown when dry. Leaves lanceo- 
late to narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, narrowed about equally at 
both ends and acute or slightly acuminate, 5 to 10 cm long, 1.5 
to 3 cm wide, shining when dry, the lower surface paler than the 
upper; nerves about 9 on each side of the midrib, slender, in- 
distinct, distant, faintly anastomosing, the reticulations obsolete 
or nearly so; petioles 1 to 1.5 cm long. Panicles terminal, 
including the peduncle 4 to 9 cm long, usually many-flowered, 
trichotomous, the peduncles 2 to 5 cm long. Flowers numerous, 
cream-colored or yellowish, fragrant, somewhat crowded on the 
ultimate branchlets of the inflorescence, the bracts ovate, 1.3 to 
1.7 mm long. Sepals oblong-ovate, acute, imbricate, 2 to 2.5 
mm long. Corolla-tube cylindric, 4 to 5 mm long, about 2 mm 
in diameter, villous inside, the lobes oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, 
falcate, about 6 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, villous on the inner 
surface, spreading, in bud twisted to the left. Anthers sessile on 
the bottom of the tube, lanceolate, acuminate, 2 mm long, sur- 
rounding the stigma and adherent to it. Stigma about 1 mm 
long, top-shaped. Disk cupular, about 0.5 mm long. Follicles 
unknown. 
Luzon, Province of Zambales, Mount Pinatubo, Loher 6U9U (type), Feb- 
ruary, 1906: Province of Bataan, Lamao River, Mount Mariveles, For. 
But. 2607 Meyer, February, 1905, For. Bur. 6256 Curran, February, 1907, 
Whitford s. n., 1905, month not indicated. 
This new species is allied to Anodendron paniculatum A. DC., and to 
A. candolleanum Wight, and one of the specimens from Bataan Province 
was identified as the former species all duplicates having been distributed 
as A. paniculatum A. DC. Anodendron loheri differs from A. paniculatum 
especially in its very much smaller leaves and fewer nerves; it is appa- 
rently much more closely allied to A. candolleanum Wight, differing not 
only in its smaller leaves but in the corolle-tube and lobes being pro- 
minently villous. 
A specimen from Rizal Province, Montalban, For. Bur. 2U52 Ahern’s 
collector, distributed as Anodendron paniculatum A. DC., is probably refer- 
able to A. loheri, but the leaves are a little larger than in the type, and 
the nerves are decidedly prominent, in fact nearly as prominent as in 
typical A. paniculatum. 
This Journal 1 (1906) Suppl. 117. 
