NEW PHILIPPINE PLANTS. 
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pubescent; anthers narrowly oblong, scabrid, about 1.7 mm long, the cells 
equal, obtuse, not at all produced and with no terminal tuft of hairs. 
Ovary ovoid, densely villous, 3-eelled; style villous below, attenuate, 
about 4 mm long. Fruit narrowly ellipsoid or oblong-obovoid, red when 
fresh, 2 to 2.5 cm long, about 1.2 cm thick, densely ferruginous-pubescent, 
acitte or obtuse, 1-celled, the walls thick and bone-like. 
Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens 910, April, January, 
1907, also without numbers, May, June, and September, 1907. 
A species well characterized by its uniform and dense pubescence. 
MALVACEAE. 
‘ HIBISCUS Linn. 
Hibiscus paludosus Merrill sp. nov. § Furcaria. 
Suffruticosus, erectus, omnibus partibus densissime fulvo-hirsutis; 
ramis ramulis foliisque subtus ad nervos plus minus aculeatis; folds 
eoriaceis, longe petiolatis, cordatis, 3- ad 5-lobatis, 5 ad 7 cm longis la- 
tisque; floribus purpureis, axillaribus, pedunculatis, solitariis, ca. 5 cm 
longis; bracteis 10, l,ad 1.5 cm longis, linearibus, simplicibus. 
Sulfrutescent, erect, branched, very densely fulvous-hirsute through- 
out, the indumentum stellate. Branches terete, aculeate. Leaves orbic- 
ular to ovate, 5 to 7 cm long and wide, base cordate, usually 3- to 5- 
lobed, the lobes broad, ovate, acute, the margins denticulate, both surfaces 
very densely fulvous-stellate-hirsute, beneath on the nerves with a few 
scattered small spines, coriaceous; nerves distinct; petioles 10 cm long 
or less, densely hirsute and more or less aculeate. Flowers axillary, sol- 
itary, purple, their pedicels stout, about 5 mm long. Bracteoles 10, 
linear, 1 to 1.5 cm long, simple, densely hirsute. Calyx lobes 1.5 cm 
long, 6 or 7 mm wide at the base, gradually narrowed to the acuminate 
apex, hispid, glandular, the mid-nerve and the lateral marginal ones very 
prominent. Petals about 5 cm long, 2.5 cm wide, inequilaterally obovate, 
much narrowed below, more or less hispid outside, densely so at the base 
inside, strongly about 15-nerved. Staminal column about 3 cm long, 
antheriferous throughout; filaments 1.5 mm long; anthers 1 mm long. 
Fruit ovoid, acuminate, about 1.5 cm long, densely hispid with long 
fulvous hairs. Seeds glabrous or nearly so, more or less compressed, 
angular, about 3 mm long. 
Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens S71/, November, 1906, 
also without numbers, January and June, 1907, in swamps. 
A species manifestly allied to Hibiscus diversifolius Jaeq., which is widely 
distributed in the tropics, differing from that species in its very dense, fulvous- 
liirsute indumentum, its pedicellate flowers and in its strongly hirsute mature 
fruits. 
