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MERRILL. 
ELAEOCARPACEAE. 
ELAEOCARPUS Linn. 
Elaeocarpus foxworthyi sp. nov. 
Arbor ca. 15 m alta; foliis elliptico-ovatis, ca 18 cm longis, coriaceis, 
obtusis, subtus ferrugineo-pubescentibus, nervis utrinque ca. 12, pro- 
minentibus, margine breviter obsenreque denticulatis ; fructibus ovoideis 
vel ellipsoideis, dense ferrngineo-pubescentibus, ca. 3.5 cm longis. 
A tree about 15 m high, the branches, branchlets, petioles, leaves 
beneath, and above when young, panicles and fruits rather densely 
ferruginous-pubescent. Leaves elliptical-ovate, about 18 cm long, 10 
to 13 cm wide, coriaceous, obtuse, rarely slightly and broadly acute, 
the base rounded to subacute, glabrous above when mature, except on 
the somewhat pubescent midrib and nerves, the margins minutely and 
distantly denticulate; nerves about 12 on each side of the midrib, very 
prominent, parallel, the reticulations very distinct beneath, subparallel ; 
petioles 5 to 6 cm long. Flowers unknown. Infrutescence axillary, 
pubescent. Fruits ovoid or ellipsoid, about 3.5 cm long, 2.5 cm thick, 
very hard, obtuse, densely ferruginous-pubescent, with one mature seed. 
Palawan, Iwahig, Bur. 8d. 858 Foxworthy, May, 1906; For. Bur. J t 158 Curran, 
May, 1906. 
A tree growing along the river, well characterized by its rather large, ellip- 
tical-ovate leaves, and hard, ferruginous, ellipsoid, rather large, fruits. 
MALVACEAE. 
HIBISCUS Linn. 
Hibiscus cannabinus Linn. Syst. ed. 10 (1759) 1 149; Mast, in Hook. f. El. 
Brit. Ind. 1 (1874) 339; Hochr. in Ann. Conserv. Jard. Bot. Genev. 4 (1900) 114. 
Luzon, Manila, Merrill 3801, December, 1903: Province of Pangasinan, Bur. 
Sci. J/90Jf Ramos, December, 1907. Mindanao, Province of Surigao, Baganga, 
Merrill 51f31j, October, 1906. 
Widely distributed in the tropics, cultivated; not previously reported from the 
Philippines. 
FLACOURTIACEAE. 
HOMALIUM Jacq. 
Several species of Homalium occur in the Philippines, all endemic, 
so far as is known at the present time. Some of the species are im- 
portant timber trees, but as there has been considerable confusion in 
the group, due to misinterpretation of some of the previously described 
■species, the following key to the Philippine forms lias been made. The 
types of F.-Villar’s species are no longer extant, but those of Vidal are 
preserved in the Kew Herbarium, and these have been examined. There 
are some manifest errors in the descriptions of the former author, which 
