ALABASTRA PHILIPPINENSIA, III. 
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calyx-tube 9 to 12 mm long, 8 to 9 mm in diameter, its lobes 10, the longer 
series triangular-lanceolate, straight or falcate, 19 to 20 mm long, 5 
mm wide, acuminate, covered with paleae 1.5 to 3 mm long, longest and 
broadest near the middle of the tube, decreasing in density and breadth 
toward the apex of the lobes, bearing long cilia on their margins, these 
appressed except on the margins of the lobes; the intermediate 5 lobes 
3 mm long, or including the acumen and paleae 5 mm long; petals 5, 
lilac, broadly oblanceolate or obovate, often oblique, 3.5 to 4 cm long, 
the apex truncate and toward its middle sometimes slightly retuse, always 
shortly acuminate, the acumen and the extreme base with tufted cilia, 
the margins ciliate ; stamens 10, 5 fertile and 5 probably sterile but having 
anthers of approximately equal size, the fertile anthers lilac, connective 
pale-lilac, the spurs, filaments, and sterile anthers greenish ; fertile anthers 
with filaments 13 to 14 mm long, the connective of similar length from 
the base of the anther to the filament, prolonged beyond the filament for 
3 mm, the prolongation forked midway into 2 spathulate obscurely 2- 
forked lobes, fertile anthers 1 cm long; sterile anthers 8 mm long, the 
connective merely forming anteriorly 2 falcate-ovate horns immediately 
below the anthers, their filaments 1 cm long; ovary more than half- 
superior, 1 cm long, covered with sericeous paleae densely tufted at the 
strongly beaked apex, 5 celled, with very many small ovules; style ex- 
ceeding 2 cm in length, dilated toward the apex, the stigma plane. 
A bush about 2 m high, the branchlete terete, densely covered with 
ferruginous paleae, the nodes with a single whorl of setae: petioles 13 
to 25 mm long, lamina chartaceous, elliptic, elliptic-lanceolate, or 
almost oval, 9.5 to 16 cm long, 3.5 to 6 cm wide, usually conspicuously 
7-plinerved, the outer pair sometimes faint, sometimes with an additional 
faint pair, the base acute, the apex acutely acuminate, the upper surface 
densely covered with paleae adnato except for their appressed terminal 
setae, the margins ciliate, the under surface villose and on the larger veins 
somewhat setose. 
Luzon, Province of Tayabas (Infanta), mount Binuang, common in mossy 
forest at and above 900 m, Bur. Sci. 9370 Robinson. Named for Doctor B. B. 
Warriner, With whom I made the ascent, and who was the first to find the 
species. Closely allied to M. candidum, D. Don, but distinguished by the much 
larger bracts, fewer-flowered inflorescences, and by many other characters. 
MEMECYLON Linn. 
Memecyion gracilipes sp. nov. 
Arbuscula glabra, ramulis teneris, tereteibus vel apice plus minusve 
angulatis: infloreseentiis axillaribus, rarissime terminalibus, long! ter. 
graciliterque pedunculatis ; floribus breviter pedicellatis, parvis, pedice- 
llorum basi solum bracteatis, haud articulatis: foliis breviter petiolatis, 
lanceolatis, basi acutis, apice longiter acuminatis, uninerviis. 
