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nally, the tube somewhat enlarged upward, the lobes 5, oblong, 
blunt, about 2 mm long. Filaments exserted; anthers 2 mm 
long, more or less glandular. 
Cebu, Cuming 1773. 
Duplicates of the above number were referred by Schauer to Callicarpa 
pentandra B,oxh. = Geunsia farinosa Blume, but Sir Joseph Hooker in his 
“Flora of British India” under Geunsia farimosa Blume, says “Cuming’s No. 
1773, reduced to G. farinosa by Schauer, is probably, as stated in Gen. PI. 
2, p. 1150, a good species.” 
It seems to me to be much more distinct from Blume’s species than is 
Geunsia cumingiana (Schauer) Rolfe, which Hooker thinks is perhaps not 
distinct from G. farinosa Blume. In this genus, as in Callicarpa, the amount 
of pubescence on different forms seems to vary considerably, but Geunsia 
hookeri, above described, is distinguished from the previously described 
forms especially by its very scanty pubescence, which by no means covers the 
lower surface of the leaf, as in G. farimosa, and in G. cumingiana. 
GEUNSIA CUMINGIANA (Schauer) Rolfe in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 21 
(1884) 315. 
Samar, Cuming 1707 (cotype). Negros, Cadiz, For. Bur. 12UUU Danao, 
March, 1908. Leyte, Palo, Elmer 7368, January, 1906. Mindanao, District 
of Zamboanga, Tetuan, Ahern 378: Province of Misamis, Mount Malindang, 
For. Bur. 4.712 Mearns & Hutchinson, May, 1906. 
Endemic. 
VITEX L. 
VITEX NITIDA sp. nov. 
Arbor circiter 5 m alta, partibus junioribus floribusque plus 
minusve pubescentibus ; foliis tri- vel quinquefoliolatis, foliolis 
nitidis, elliptico-ovatis, obtusis vel obscure acuminatis, usque 
ad 10 cm longis, 2 basilaribus multo minoribus; cymis pedun- 
culatis, axillaribus, folia subaequantibus ; floribus ut videtur 
albidis, calycibus truncatis, subglabris, corolla extus dense pu- 
bescente. 
A tree about 5 m high, the branches light-gray, smooth, some- 
what 4-angled, the growing parts black when dry, more or less 
fulvous-pubescent, becoming glabrous or nearly so. Leaves 3- 
and 5-foliolate on the same branches, their petioles 5 to 7 cm 
long. Leaflets elliptic-ovate, dark-colored when dry, shining, 
glabrous or nearly so, entire, base acute or acuminate, apex 
obtuse or shortly and broadly acuminate, the central one 7 to 
10 cm long, the two next below somewhat smaller, the basal pair, 
when present, much reduced, 2 to 3.5 cm long, all petiolulate. 
Cymes axillary, solitary, in the upper axils, forming a terminal 
leafy inflorescence, a little shorter than the leaves, their pedun- 
cles 2 to 6 cm long, very slightly pubescent or glabrous, dicho- 
tomous, eventually rather lax, comparatively few-flowered. 
Flowers white, according to the collector, in triads on the ulti- 
