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beneath, the reticulations fine, indistinct ; petioles very stout, 5 mm long. 
Flowers lateral (?), nearly glabrous, pedicels about 4 cm long. Sepals 
3, broadly ovate, united below, acute, slightly pubescent, about 3 mm 
long. Petals 6, flat, glabrous, or with few scattered hairs, oblong-lan- 
ceolate, acute, the three outer ones 4 to 4.5 cm long, 11 to 13 mm wide, 
the three inner ones slightly shorter and narrower. Stamens indefinite, 
1.1 mm long, connectives truncate, overlapping. Carpels indefinite, 
somewhat pubescent. 
Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Port Banga, For. Bur. OJi-56 Whitford d 
Hutchinson, February, 1908, in forests at 50 m above the sea. 
A species well characterized by its very long, strongly nerved and cordate 
leaves, the attachment of the inflorescence not being indicated and the specimens 
not showing the same. A very similar species, in fruit, from the same locality 
is represented by For. Bur. 9113 Whitford d Hutchinson, but the leaves are 
relatively narrower, not cordate at the base and have about 25 pairs of lateral 
nerves. 
MELODORUM Dunal. 
Melodorum rufum (Presl) comb. nov. 
Anona rufa Presl Rel. Haenk. 2 (1835) 75. 
Luzon, without locality, Haenlce in Herb. Prague, native name Apnit, ex Presl. 
After examining Presl’s type in Herb. Prague I do not hesitate to refer this 
species to Melodorum, it apparently being allied to M. latifolium, differing from 
that species in its glabrous, acuminate leaves. Index Kewensis gives the locality 
of the species as “Am. trop.” but on what authority is not known, probably, 
however, on the assumption that Presl was correct in describing the species as 
Anona, the genus being largely developed in tropical America, and represented 
in the Malayan region only by introduced and cultivated species. 
OROPHEA Blume. 
Orophea bracteolata sp. nov. 
Arbor parva: foliis oblongis, usque ad 12 cm longis, breviter acumi- 
natis, nervis utrinque ea. 9, valde obliquis; floribus in cymis axillaribus 
congestis, petalis interioribus valde unguiculatis, laminis rhomboideis. 
A small tree, about 9 m high, the branches terete, dark-reddish-brown, 
glabrous, lenticellate, the ultimate branchlets somewhat ferruginous- 
pubescent. Leaves oblong, subcoriaceous, 9 to 12 cm long, 3 to 4 cm 
wide, base acute or rounded, often slightly oblique, the apex short- 
acuminate, somewhat shining, glabrous on both sides, except on the 
midrib and nerves beneath which are appressed-pubescent ; nerves about 
9 on each side of the midrib, oblique, curved-ascending, very prominent 
beneath; petioles 2 to 3 mm long, pubescent. Cymes axillary, densely 
ferruginous-pubescent, densely flowered, 1.5 cm long or less, the pedicels 
about 5 mm long, pubescent, with a large ovate, strongly acuminate, 
pubescent bracteole about 3.5 mm long, at about the middle. Sepals 3, 
ovate, acute, pubescent, about 3 mm long. Outer three petals broadly 
ovate, acute or slightly acuminate, ferruginous-pubescent, 4 to 5 mm long, 
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