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pedicels pubescent, 3 to 4 mm long, jointed to the calyx. Calyx tube 
narrowly funnel-shaped, pubescent, about 2 mm long, the lobes 5 or 6, 
oblong, 2 mm long, pubescent. Petals 5 or 6, slightly exceeding the 
calyx lobes in length, subspatulate, pubescent. Stamens one opposite 
each petal. Ovary villous; styles 4 or 5. 
Luzon, Province of Eizal, Loher 2210 ; Bosoboso, Decades Philip. Forest FI. 
no. 251; For. Bur. 1975 Ahern’s collector, November, 1905. 
A species closely allied to Homalium barandae Yid., the type, Loher 2210, 
having been identified at Ivew with Vidal’s species. The plant above described is 
at once distinguished by its entirely glabrous leaves, even in young specimens. T., 
Laing. 
(3) Homalium panayanum F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 94; Vidal Rev. PI. 
Vase. Filip. (1886) 141; Ceron Cat. PI. Herb. (1892) 87. 
Homalium grandiflorum Naves in Blanco FI. Filip, ed. 3, pi. 1/43, non Bentli. 
Guimaras, For. Bur. 262 Gammill, January, 1904; For. Bur. 1/539 P. del Pillar, 
June, 1906. Luzon, Province of Zambales, For. Bur. 8111, 8419 Curran d Merritt, 
December,' 1907 ; Bur. Sci. 5051 Ramos, December, 1907. 
F.-Villar describes the species as having petals and sepals 10, stamens 10, 
rarely 20 or 30, while Vidal states that the petals do not appear to exceed 7 in 
number, the stamens two to three times as many as the petals. Our specimens 
show 6 to 7 petals and sepals, and an equal number of stamens, and I have 
accordingly included the species in the section Blackwellia. Vidal’s statement, 
however, would place it in the section Myriantheia. The plate cited by F.-Villar, 
shows 7-merous flowers, and apparently 7 stamens, and our specimens agree per- 
fectly with the figure. A species well characterized by its entire leaves and linear 
jietals and sepals which are covered with long ciliate hairs. V., Puyot. 
(4) Homalium bracteatum Bentli. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 4 (1860) 37; 
Rolfe in Journ. Bot. 23 (1885) 213; Vidal Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 115; 
Rev. PL Vase. Filip. (1886) 142. 
Homalium luzoniense Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 99, non 
F.-Vill. 
Philippines, without locality, Cuming 1109 (cotype). Luzon, Province of Ba- 
taan, Lamao, For. Bur. 2071 Borden, October, 1904, For. Bur. 51/73 Curran, Novem- 
ber, 1906; Province of Bulacan, Angat, For. Bur. 11165 Aguilar , April, 1908: 
Province of Pampanga, Mount Arayat, Merrill 1/210, September, 1905; Province 
of Camarines, Pasacao, Ahern 21/, 72, January, March, 1902. 
A species well characterized by its 4- or 5-merous flowers, and dissimilar 
sepals and petals, the former being ovate-lanceolate, reflexed and much shorter 
than the latter, which are spatulate and erect or spreading. T., Aranga. 
(5) Homalium villarianum Vidal Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 142; Ceron 
Cat. PI. Herb. (1892) 87. 
Homalium sorsogonense Elmer Leafl. Philip. Bot. 1 (1908) 325. 
Luzon, Province of Camarines Norte, Vidal 791, type in Herb. Ivew: Province 
of Sorsogon, Elmer 7 311, November, 1905, type of H. sorsogonense Elm. 
After a careful examination of the specimens and descriptions of these two 
species, I can find no characters by which they can lie separated, and accordingly 
Elmer’s recently described species is here reduced. On Vidal’s specimen the 
flowers are 6-merous, and on Elmer’s specimen they are 5-merous, but this char- 
acter alone is not sufficient to distinguish them, as in many species of Homalium 
the floral parts vary in number even on the same plant. 
