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MERRILL. 
calyx about 1.5 cm in diameter. Outer three petals broadly ovate or 
ovate, 4 to 5.5 cm long, 3.5 to 4 cm wide, coriaceous, nearly glabrous except 
the basal portion outside, which is pubescent, acute or slightly acumi- 
nate; inner three petals 2 mm thick on the margins, almost woody, 
ovate, acute, connivent, 1 to 1.5 cm long, glabrous within, outside shin- 
ing and densely gray-pubescent. Stamens indefinite, 1.5 to 2 mm long. 
Carpels about 12, oblong, 2.5 mm long, appressed-pubescent ; styles about 
2 mm long, enlarged above, the stigma oblique, entire. 
Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens 1049, June, 1907. 
Without locality, Cuming 1746, distributed as Goniothalamus giganteus Hook. f. 
& Thoms. 
A species closely allied to Goniothalamus giganteus Hook. f. & Thoms., but 
differing in its more numerously nerved, differently shaped leaves, entire stigmas, 
and other characters. 
MELODORUM Hook. f. & Thoms. 
Melodorum dementis Merrill sp. nov. 
Ramulis foliis paniculis floribusque plus minus ferrugineo-pubescen- 
tibus; foliis oblongo-ellipticis, obtusis, nervis utrinque 28 ad 30; floribus 
paniculatis, ca. 11 mm longis. 
Scandent, branches terete, brown or gray, rather slender, lenticellate, 
glabrous, the branchlets somewhat ferruginous-pubescent. Leaves oblong- 
elliptical, coriaceous, 12 to 20 cm long, 4 to 8.5 cm wide, base and apex 
rounded, in age shining above and nearly glabrous, the younger ones 
somewhat pubescent, beneath rather densely ferruginous-pubescent; 
nerves 28 to 30 on each side of the midrib, very prominent beneath, 
the reticulations distinct; petioles slightly pubescent, 1 cm long or less. 
Panicles terminal and axillary, densely ferruginous-pubescent, the flowers 
fasciculately disposed. Flowers yellow or cream-colored, their pedicels 
1 cm long or less and with a small bracteole. Sepals pubescent, trian- 
gular-ovate, acute or slightly acuminate, about 2 mm long. Petals 6, 
valvate, the three outer 10 to 11 mm long, 5 mm wide below, ferruginous- 
pubescent outside, glabrous within, the base slightly enlarged and con- 
cave, somewhat narrowed above the middle, acute or blunt, the three 
inner ones similar but glabrous, slightly shorter and from 3 to 3.5 mm 
wide. Stamens indefinite, 1 to 1.5 mm long, the connectives oblique, 
overlapping. Carpels about 10, villous, the style also villous ; ovules 5, 
parietal. Fruit globose, 1.5 to 2 cm long, deciduously ferruginous-pubes- 
cent; seeds irregularly compressed, shining. 
Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp Keitliley, Mrs. Clemens s. July, 1907, (type), 
also from the same locality, Mrs. Clemens 1097, June, 1907, and without number, 
September-October, 1907. 
