ALABASTRA PHILIPPINENSIA, II. 
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CALLICAR PA Linn. 
Callicarpa ovata sp. nov. 
Frutex ; floribus cymosis, breviter pedicellatis, parvis, tetrameris ; 
staminibus stylisque exsertis; foliis ovatis, breviter petiolatis, ovatis vel 
junioribus ellipticis, xnargine serratis, basi trrincatis, apice acurninatis, 
nervis utrinque 8-10. 
Inflorescence eymose, 1.5-2 cm long, the peduncles 5-11 mm long, the 
various forkings inclined to one another at angles exceeding a right angle, 
the ultimate pedicels 2-4 mm long, the bractlets linear to oblanceolate, 
0.7-0. 8 mm long, the rachises and outer surface of the calyx ferruginous- 
stellate-tomentose or ferruginous-stellate-pubescent; calyx obliquely cam- 
panulate, 0.9-1. 2 mm long, shallowly divided into 4 somewhat unequal 
lobes but not 2-lipped; corolla pink, 2.3— 2.5 mm long, divided for one- 
half to one-third of its length into 4 equal broadly ovate rounded lobes 
1 mm wide; stamens 4, filaments inserted about 0.5 mm from the base of 
the corolla and alternate with its lobes, spirally coiled when dry, when 
extended 2.7-3 mm long, anthers ellipsoid, 0.7 mm long; ovary sessile, 
subglobose, 0.5 mm in diameter, the style 5-6 mm long, caducous, at the 
apex expanded into a small obscurely 4-notched stigma ; drupe subglobose, 
2.5 mm in diameter, glabrous, containing 4 pyrenes, each pyrene 2 mm 
long, 1.3 mm in diameter, 1-celled, 1-seeded; seed ellipsoid, 1.3 mm long, 
0.8 mm in diameter. 
A slender shrub about 2 m high, the ultimate branches densely fer- 
ruginous-stellate-tomentose, gradually becoming smoother and ulti- 
mately glabrous, bark grayish, thickly but lightly striate; leaves opposite, 
borne on toment.ose petioles 3-5 mm long, the lamina membranaceous, 
ovate or the youngest elliptic, 5.5-10 cm long, 3-6 cm wide, truncate 
at the base, acutely or obtusely acuminate at the apex, the margins 
serrate except at the base, the veins of all orders on the under surface 
densely stellate-tomentose, those of the upper surface slightly so; primary 
veins on each side of the midrib 8-10. 
Type collected at an elevation of 180 in, near Darong, District of Davao, 
Mindanao, by R. S. Williams, no. 25 77, in flower and fruit, April 1), 1905. 
PR E IVIN A Linn. 
Premna benguetensis sj>. nov. 
Arbuscula; floribus cymosis, in paniculis ferrugineo-pubescentibus 
dispositis, viridescentibus, bilabiatis; calycis eorollaeque lobis 5; stami- 
nibus 4, didynamis; ovario globoso, glabro, 1-pyreno, pyrenis 2- vel 
4-locularibus ; st}do 4 mm longo, apice brevissime furcato; foliis op- 
posite, siccis atro-viridibus, ellipticis, apice acurninatis; venis lateralibus 
utrinque 5-7, subtus luteis ferrugineo-pubeseentibusque, conspicuis. 
