ALA B ASTRA PIIfLIPPINENSIA, II. 
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part of the stem, cymose, one densely pubescent peduncle 1-3.5 cm long 
or sometimes more arising from each tubercle, the ultimate pedicels 
1-3 mm long; calyx campanulate, in all 5-G.5 mm long, 3.5 mm wide, 
scurfy-pubescent, projecting 2 mm beyond the ovary, the upper margin 
shallowly divided into . 5 broadly rounded acuminate lobes ; petals 5, 
whitish, oblanceolate, more or less oblique and 3-toothed at the apex, 
6-6.5 mm long, 2.5 mm wide, contracted to 1 mm shortly above the 
base; stamens 10, subequal, the filaments 2.5-3 mm long, of equal di- 
ameter throughout, the anthers also 2.5-3 mm long, tapering to the apex, 
basal lobes of the connective 0.4 mm long, spur 0.2 mm long; ovary 
5-celled, with fairly numerous ovules. 
A small shrub about 2 m high, with a stem about 2.5 cm in diameter, 
its bark pale-gray, striate? lenticellate, that of the younger branches 
yellowish-scurfy-tomentose ; leaves opposite, on petioles pubescent like 
the stem and 1.5-2. 7 cm long, the lamina elliptic or oblong, 13-21 cm 
long, 5. 6-9. 3 cm wide, very shortly acuminate and apiculate at the apex, 
at the base acute, but sometimes truncate just at the insertion of the 
petiole, papyraceous, obscurely cremilate on the margins, bluish and 
glabrous on the upper surface, beneath olivaceous and densely stellate- 
pubescent with the midrib and veins tomentose; venation pinnate, with 
5 pairs of lateral veins. 
Type collected at an elevation of 150 m at Sax River, District of Zamboanga, 
Mindanao, by R. S. Williams, no. 2412, in flower, February 20, 1905. 
ONAGKACE2E. 
EPILOBIUM Dill. 
Epilobium phil ippinense sp. nov. 
Sublignosum; caulibus simplic-ibus vel parce ramosis; floribus paueis, 
racemosis, terminalibus, tetrameris, mediocris ; petalis integris vel breviter 
bilobatis; stigmate late elliptico, juniore late clavato, obscure lobato; 
foliis oppositis vel superioribus alternis, ovatis vel laneeolatis, breviter 
pedicellatis, glanduloso-serratis. 
Inflorescence few-flowered, terminating the stem or the short lateral 
branches, racemose; the flowers regular, leafy-bracted, at an thesis the 
ovary 1.8-3. 3 cm long, borne on a peduncle 1.5-2. 5 mm long, and ex- 
panded at the apex into a disk about 2 mm in diameter, minutely pubes- 
cent throughout; calyx-lobes 4, lanceolate, 5-6 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, 
obtusely acuminate at the apex, the midvein fairly prominent, with 
scattered villose pubescence on the back and margins; petals 4, pink to 
purplish, 7.5 mm long, 4 mm wide, contracted into a somewhat slender 
claw at the base, and entire or obcordate at the apex ; stamens 8, the 
anthers oval, 1 mm long, 0.8 firm wide, the filaments alternately longer 
and shorter, the longer ones 1.5-2 mm long, the intervening ones about 
