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on each side of the midrib, not prominent, scarcely more prominent than 
are the rather dense brownish reticulations; petioles 2 cm long or less. 
Inflorescence from the branches below the leaves and from the leaf-axils^ 
about 3 cm long, pubescent, the peduncles solitary or in pairs, slender,' 
about 1 cm long, each bearing two or three short branches, the flowers in 
three- to six-flowered umbels at the ends of the branches, the pedicels 3 
to 4 mm long. Calyx cup-shaped, about 2 mm long, slightly pubescent 
or glabrous, with 5 rounded teeth 0.5 mm long. Petals (in bud) oblong 3 
mm 
^ Ovary sessile, densely, vil- 
lous, 3-celled. Fruit orbicular, compressed, about 1 cm in diameter 
apiculate, slightly hirsute, ultimately glabrous. ' 
^JI''"'^''''°' ^''''"' ^"''"'''"' ^'""'^' Keitliley, Mrs. Clemens 768, 892, September 
1906, and January, 1907, also without numbers, March, May and September,' 
Well characterized by its glabrous, membranous, . sharply acuminate leaves, 
lateral, rather few-flowered inflorescence, and orbicular, compressed fruits. Some 
of the specimens are indicated by the collector as trees, while others are indicated 
as epiphytes, but I can detect no difference between them. 
Pittosporum epiphyticum Merrill sp. nov. 
Glabra, epiphytica vel pseudo-epiphytica; foliis oblongo-oblancoolatis 
vel elliptico-lanceolatis, coriaceis, 20 ad 25 cm longis, nitidis, acuminatis, 
mtegns, basi plus minus attenuatis, acutis, nervis utrinque ca. 14 • fruc- 
tibus e ramis denudatis, breviter pedicellatis, solitariis vel fasciculatis, 
eviter compressis, apice apieulato-acuminatis, basi eordatis, ca. 2.5 em 
longis. 
Epiphytic or pseudo-epiphytic, eventually partly terrestial, glabrous, 
iiranches stout, gray, glabrous. Leaves obloug-oblanceolate ot elliptical- 
lanceolate, coriaceous, shining, rather strongly acuminate, the base some- 
wJiat attenuate, acute, entire, the margins slightly revolute, 20 to 25 cm 
long 6 to 8 cm wide; nerves about 14 on each side of the midrib, not 
much more distinct than are the secondary nerves and ratl.er dense 
reticulations; petioles 2 to 4 cm long. Emits lieart-sliaped, borne on 
the branches below the leaves, short-pedicellate, somewhat compressed, 
glabrous 2.5 cm long, 2 em wide and nearly as thick, the apex apiculate- 
acummate, the base cordate, 2-valved, solitary, or two or three at each 
node, the pedicels about 3 mm long. 
MIM..VXAO Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens 10.)0, April, 1907, and 
without number, September, 1907. - »" ' ' "' 
A species with the habit of, and closely allied to Pittosporum rrsiniferum 
Ilcmsl., ,vluel> is widely distributed on the mountains of Luzon, differing from 
that species by its much larger leaves and differently shaped fruits. Its habit 
r«m the collector's notes, is similar to that of Ilemsley's species, which is verj^ 
hke that of most sp.cies of Fious of the section Urostigma, that is, starting as 
an epiphyte or pseudo-epipthyte, and ovontually reaching the ground and be^om- 
mg terrestrial, or partly terrestrial, and in the course of time probably killin.. its 
host. ^ 
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