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MERRILL. 
stellate-pubescent along the midrib, the lower surface rather densely 
stellate-pubescent when young, becoming subglabrous in age; nerves 
about 22 on each side of the midrib, parallel, distinct; petioles 8 to 11 
cm long, straight, stellate-pubescent. Panicles slender, narrow, axillary, 
20 to 30 cm long, densely stellate-pubescent, the branches scattered, 
few, the longest ones scarcely exceeding 4 cm in length. Staminate 
flowers crowded into dense sessile heads 4 to 5 mm in diameter, arranged 
along the ultimate branchlets. Sepals 3, narrow, stellate-pubescent, 
about 1 mm long. Petals twice as long as the sepals. Stamens 3. 
Pistillate flowers not seen. Fruit of three 1 to 1.5 cm long carpels, the 
outside densely covered with rather soft, 5 mm long, densely stellate- 
tomentose processes. 
Camiguin (Babuyan Islands), Bur. Sci. 4050 Fenix, June 27, 1907, in thickets 
near the seashore. 
A very characteristic species with the facies of Lunasia amara Blanco, but at 
once distinguished by its more pubescent leaves and its fruits being covered with 
numerous, soft, stellate-tomentose processes about 5 mm long. 
Lunasia amara Blanco is very common and widely distributed in the Philip- 
pines, and is rather variable in vegetative characters. No representative of the 
genus is known from outside of the Malayan region. 
MICROMELUM Blume. 
M. tephrocarpum Turez. 
Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 864 ~ Fenix. Camiguin, 3994 F6nix. 
A form endemic to the Philippines, scarcely distinct from the widely distributed 
Micromelum pubescens Blume. 
MURRAYA Linn. 
M. exotica Linn. 
Camiguin, 41 14 Fenix. 
Common and widely distributed in the Philippines; tropical Asia to Formosa, 
Malaya, Australia and Polynesia. 
M. crenulata Oliv. 
Sabtan, 3742 Fenix. 
A species known only from the Philippines, not common. 
CITRUS Linn. 
C. hystrix DC. 
Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3836 Fenix. N. v., Valatino. 
Widely distributed in the Philippines; British India to Malaya. 
MELIACE2E. 
CH ISOCH ETON Blume. 
C. philippinus (Turez.) Harms. 
Camiguin, 4046 F6nix. 
Common and widely distributed in the Philippines; endemic. 
