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the transverse nervules numerous, curved upwards; petioles with few 
appressed scales, 1.5 to 2.5 cnr long. Flowers in threes, the inflorescence 
terminal, 6 cm long. Calyx about 12 mm long, 8 mm thick, densely 
covered with imbricated, appressed, penieillate-acuminate slightly eiliate 
1.2 mm long scales, the lobes 5, oblong-lanceolate, 1.8 cm long, 7 mm 
wide, penieillate-acuminate, the back densely scaly, the margins with 
scattered penicillate hairs, the alternating teeth 3 mm long, tipped with 
about three penicillate hairs. Petals obovate, obtuse, about 3 cm long, 
2.4 cm wide, the apical margin eiliate, 7-nerved. Stamens 10, the 
longer ones with filaments about 2 cm long including the connective, 
the appendages about 2 mm long; anthers 11 mm long. Bracts ovate- 
lanceolate, acuminate, 2 cm long, densely paleaceous, the bracteoles simi- 
lar, about 1.5 cm long. 
Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, Bur. Sci. 3798 Fenix, June 8, 1907. Cami- 
guin, Bur. Sci. Jfl09 Fenix, July 3, 1907. 
A species evidently allied to Melastoma penicillatum Naud., and M. paleaceum 
Naud., but with calyx scales more like species in the group with M. polyanthum, 
characterized by its membranaceous nearly glabrous leaves. 
TJMBELLIFER2E. 
CENTELLA Linn. 
C. asiatica (Linn.) Urb. 
Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3628 Fenix. Camiguin, 3966 Fenix. N. v., 
Tagaditao. 
Common throughout the Philippines; tropical and subtropical regions of the 
World. 
SCHEFFLERA Foist. 
S. odorata (Blanco) Merr. & Rolfe. 
Sabtan, 3753 Fenix. N. v., Tugjic. 
Widely distributed in the Philippines; endemic. 
BOERLAGIODENDRON Harms. 
B. camiguinense Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 3 (1908) Bot. 25*2. 
Camiguin, J t 135 Fenix. 
Known only from Camiguin. 
B. pectinatum Merr. 1. c. 253. 
Batan, Mount Iraya, 3775 Fenix. 
Known only from Batan; the two most northern known species of the genus. 
ONAGRACE2E. 
JUSSIEU A Linn. 
J. suffruticosa Linn. 
Camiguin, 3971 Fenix. 
Widely distributed in the Philippines; tropics of the World. 
