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APOC YN ACE2E. 
CARRUTHERSIA Seemann. 
Carruthersia macgregori comb. nov. 
JUlertonia macgregori Merrill in Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 3 5 (1906) 59. 
A reexamination of the type material, and study of additional specimens 
collected by Mrs. Clemens in Mindanao, no. 756, September, 1906, and without 
numbers, April and June, 1907, leads me to refer this species to Carruthersia, 
the second species of the genus to be found in the Philippines. It is closely 
allied to Carruthersia pilosa (A. DC.) F.-Vill., but is readily distinguished by 
its glabrous leaves. The stamens are very slightly united and the two lobes of 
the disk alternating with the carpels are present. The genus EJlertonia is thus 
to be excluded from the Philippine flora. 
STROPHANTHUS DC. 
Strophanthus erectus sp. nov. 
Frutex erecta, 1 ad 2 m alta; foliis submembranaceis, elliptico-ovatis 
vel oblongo-ovatis, breviter acuminatis, nervis utrinque 5 vel 6 ; cymis 
paucifloris, bracteis et lobis calycinis lanceolatis, acuminatis, staminum 
aristis antheris 5-plo longioribus ; corollae lobis ea. 13 cm longis. 
A glabrous erect shrub 1 to 2 m high, the branches brown or reddish- 
brown, terete, lenticellate, the branchlets slightly compressed. Leaves 
elliptical-ovate to oblong-ovate, 8 to 13 cm long, 3 to 6 cm wide, submem - 
branaceous, glabrous, dull or slightly shining, joaler beneath, the apex 
short-acuminate, the base rounded to acute or somewhat acuminate, some- 
times slightly inequilateral ; nerves 5 or 6 on each side of the midrib, very 
prominent, anastomosing, the reticulations lax, distinct; petioles 1 cm 
long or less. Cymes terminal, glabrous, few-flowered, the bracts and calyx 
lobes lanceolate, long-acuminate, the latter 7 to 9 mm long. Corolla 
tube white, slightly yellow within, 2 cm long, about 8 mm in diameter, 
slightly constricted at the middle, enlarged above, the lobes about 8 mm 
wide at the base, attenuate into long, slender, drooping, yellowish tips, 
about 13 cm long; appendages about 1 cm long, cleft into two long, 
slender, acuminate parts. Anthers 3 mm long, sagittate at the base, the 
filaments very short, somewhat hirsute, the apical awn very slender, 
about 15 mm long. Ovary glabrous; style cylindrical, about 12 mm 
long. Follicle wood-y, oblong-ovoid, about 16 cm long, 7 mm wide; 
seeds lanceolate, 1.5 to 2 cm long. 
Palawan, Puerto Princesa, Merrill 695, February, 1903; also specimens culti- 
vated in Manila from seeds taken from this specimen, Merrill 5176, March, 1906, 
and Cuzner, February, 1908. 
This species differs from Strophanthus cumingii DC., in its much longer petals 
and appendages to the anthers and in other characters; it appears to be more 
closely allied to 8 . dichotomies DC., than to 8 . cumingii DC. 
