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ROBINSON. 
MAOUTIA Wedd. 
Maoutia (?) planitora sp. nov. 
Dioica; infloreseentiis femineis solum notis, singularibus vel geminatis, 
axillaribus, longe pedicell’atis ; receptaculis subplanis, lobatis, margin- 
ibus revolutis ; floribus minutis, numerosissimis, in receptaculi pagina 
superior! crebrissimis, periantlio proprio nullo seel bracteatis; foliis 
alternis mediocriter vel longe petiolatis, ovatis, orbiculari-ovatis, vel 
ovalibus, trinerviis, subtus cinereo-tomentosis, supra glabris. 
Pistillate inflorescence axillary, single or paired, with peduncles 1-3.5 
cm long, the receptacle forming a flat disk with strongly revolute margins, 
2-lobed, and the lobes again 2- or 3-lobed, usually so deeply that the 
whole appears at least 4-lobed, total diameter of receptacle attaining 3 
cm : flowers very numerous, very small and densely crowded, but confined 
to the upper surface of the disk, reaching to its extreme margin and 
often reflexed with it: flowers sessile, with usually 3 linear to ovate ciliate 
bracteoles 0.3 mm long, but with no true perianth; ovary sessile, 0.7-0. 8 
mm long, with a subapical stigma 0.1 mm long, bearing a tuft of hairs; 
ovule rhombic-ovoid, apieulate, 0.5 mm long, 0.4 mm wide, peduncles 
and under side of receptacles appressed-strigose-pubescent. 
A bush attaining a height of 6 m, with stems 7.5 cm in diameter, 
ultimate branches grooved, somewhat angled, near the apex quadrangular ; 
the stems, especially near the apex, the petioles, and the veins of the under 
side of the leaves with appressed whitish-strigose hairs; leaves alternate, 
apparently without system in their variations of size, subequilateral, borne 
on flattened petioles 1.8-7 cm (usually 3.5 cm) long, ovate, orbicular- 
ovate or oval, in all 9-22 cm (the lamina usually 10-11 cm) long, 6. 4-8. 3 
cm wide, acute or nearly truncate and entire at the base, from about 
the middle gradually rounded and terminating in an acute and mucronate 
acumen 1-1.5 cm long, the margins acuminately crenate or serrate except 
at the base, glabrous on the upper surface with numerous cystoliths, 
cinereous-tomentose on the under surface, the veins substrigose ; 3-nervecl 
at the base, the nerves continuing two-thirds to three-fourths of the 
length of the lamina, the next succeeding 12-15 lateral veins less con- 
spicuous, then followed by 3 or 4 more prominent with a few less conspic- 
uous intervening ones, the veins on the under surface of the leaf much 
more conspicuous than on the upper, yellowish or brownish; stipules 
lanceolate, appressed-strigose, 8 mm long, caducous. 
Type collected at an elevation of (10 m at Sax River, District of Zamboanga, 
Mindanao, by R. S. 'Williams, no. 2079, January 31, 1905; also represented by an 
unnumbered specimen collected by E. B. Copeland at San Ramon, in the same 
vicinity, May 12, 1904. 
This species is here provisionally referred to Maoutia, as that seems to be its 
nearest affinity, but the inflorescence is so different not only from that of this 
genus but from all others described that it is believed that this will prove to form 
a new, and, pending future possible discoveries, a monotypic genus. The flowers 
