NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VI. 
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x\ tree 10 to 12 m high, the branches terete, nearly black, the 
branchlets somewhat compressed, yellowish-gray, puberulent. Leaves 
obovate-ell i ptical to oblong-elliptical, papyraceous, about 20 cm long, 
8 to 10 cm wide, slightly shining, glabrous, paler beneath, the apex 
short-acuminate, the base rounded or subacute, margins entire; nerves 
8 to 10 on each side of the midrib, prominent beneath, somewhat ascend- 
ing, parallel, the reticulations obscure, very lax; petioles puberulent, 
about 1 cm long. Cymes axillary, solitary, 1 to 2 cm long, puberulent, 
rather congested, sometimes branched from the base, but more often 
branched above only, the branches short. Flowers yellowish or cream- 
colored, sessile, fascicled at the ends of the branchlets. Calyx puberu- 
lent, shallow, about 2 mm in diameter, truncate or very obscurely toothed. 
Petals 5, free, valvate, oblong, about 2 mm long, 1 mm wide, acute, 
puberulent outside, glabrous and with an obscure keel within. Stamens 
5; filaments very short, about 0.5 mm long; anthers 1.2 mm long, 
deeply cleft at the base. Ovary glabrous, oblong. Fruit narrowly oblong, 
glabrous, 2 to 2.5 cm long, about 7 mm thick, compressed, triangular 
in cross-section, sulcate on one side, the other two sides with a rib 
or keel. 
Mindoro, Pinamalayan, in the mountains, altitude 100 m, For. Bur. 9916, 9915 
Merritt, April 2, 1908. 
I ODES Blume. 
lodes philippinensis sp. nov. 
lodes ovalis Vidal Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 103; Rev. PL Vase. Filip. 
(1886) 85, non Blume. 
Eamis ramulis inflorescentiis foliisque plus minus ferrugineo-pubes- 
centibus; foliis ovatis vel oblong-ovatis, membranaceis, usque ad 12 cm 
longis, basi late cordatis, apice acuminatis; floribus breviter pedicellatis, 
ca. 8 mm longis, plus minus hirsutis. 
Scandent, the branches, branchlets, leaves, and inflorescence more or 
less softly ferruginous-pubescent, the stems yellowish- to reddish-brown, 
the ultimate branchlets very densely pubescent. Leaves opposite, ovate 
to oblong-ovate, rather strongly acuminate, base broad, cordate, mem- 
branaceous, pubescent on both surfaces, more densely so on the nerves and 
especially on the under surface, 5 to 12 cm long, 3 to 8 cm wide; nerves 
about 6 on each side of the midrib, very prominent beneath, the reticula- 
tions lax, distinct; petioles densely pubescent, 1 cm long or less. Cymes 
axillary and terminating the short lateral branches, pubescent, few- 
flowered, the peduncles short or elongated. Pedicels about 1 mm long, 
the calyx ovoid, 2 mm long, more or less hirsute, deeply 5-lobed, the 
lobes oblong-lanceolate, 1 mm long, acuminate. Corolla-tube cylin- 
drical, more or less hirsute, about 7 mm long, the lobes 5, ovate-lanceolate, 
strongly acuminate, reflexed, about 3 mm long, 1 mm wide. Anthers 
about 1 mm long. Ovary narrowly obovoid, glabrous, about 1 mm long. 
