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MERRILL. 
3.5 to 4 cm long, the peduncles 3 to 4 cm long, densely pubescent. Sepals 
glabrous, oblong-obovate, obtuse, about 3.5 cm long, 1.4 cm wide. Petals 
usually 9, similar to the sepals, the inner gradually smaller, glabrous, 
the innermost ones subspatulate. Stamens indefinite, curved, 10 to 12 
mm long. Carpels many, densely fulvous-pubescent. Mature fruit 
oblong-ovoid, 4.5 to 6 cm long, the carpels about 1 cm long, rounded, 
not apiculate, slightly' - pubescent, the seeds about 6 mm long. 
Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp Keitliley, Mrs. Clemens 686, September-October, 
1906, and without numbers, March, May, June, and September, 1907. 
A characteristic species recognizable by its pubescence and its obtuse carpels. 
ANONACEJE. 
OX YM ITR A Blume. 
Oxymitra longifiora Merrill sp. nov. 
Poliis oblongo-obovatis vel elliptico-obovatis, apice obtusis, basi leviter 
cordatis, subtus plus minus castaneo-pubescentibus, nervis utrinque ca. 
1G ; floribus axillaribus, solitariis, usque ad 7 cm longis. 
Seandent, the branches terete, lenticellate, dark-brown and more or 
less dark-brown-pubescent, the ultimate branchlets, petioles, pedicels and 
nerves on the under surface of the leaves densely so. Leaves oblong- 
obovate to elliptical-obovate, 18 to 20 cm long, 7 to 11 cm wide above the 
middle, the apex broad, rounded or obtuse or sub truncate, somewhat nar- 
rowed below the middle to the slightly cordate base, subcoriaceous, shin- 
ing and glabrous above except the somewhat pubescent midrib and nerves, 
beneath glaucous, the midrib nerves and reticulations densely dark- 
brown-pubescent; nerves about 16 on each side of the midrib, very prom- 
inent, parallel, the. reticulations distinct, parallel. Flowers axillary, 
solitary, the pedicels stout, 0.5 to 2 cm long, with an oblong-ovate acu- 
minate bracteole at the lower one- third. Sepals 3, ovate, acute or acumi- 
nate, 1 cm long, 8 mm wide, densely pubescent on both surfaces. Outer 
petals lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 7 cm long, 11 mm wide at the base, 
gradually narrowed upwards, the midrib prominent, pubescent outside, 
glabrous within and slightly concave at the base; inner three petals 
oblong-ova'te, sharply acuminate, fleshy, coriaceous, glabrous, 9 to 10 mm 
long, 5 to 6 mm wide. Stamens numerous, 2.2 mm long, the connectives 
oblique, overlapping. Carpels numerous, about 1.5 mm long, densely 
villous, the glabrous styles thickened upward, the stigma slightly villous ; 
ovules 1. Fruit oblong-ellipsoid, somewhat pubescent, acute, 1 cm long 
or less. 
Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp Keitliley, Mrs. Clemens s. n., June, 1907, in 
flower and no. 689, September, 1 906, in fruit. 
