150 MERRIIX.. 
cm long, 7 to 11 cm wide, glabrous, coriaceous, shining, base acute, 
apex broadly short-acuminate, acumen blunt, the margins very obscurely 
crenate or entire; nerves about 9 on each side of the midrib, prominent, 
the reticulations rather dense; petioles 5 to 7 cm long. Eacemes ax- 
illary, solitary, 7 to 9 cm long, the rachis, pedicels and sepals densely 
appressed-gray-pubescent. Pedicels about 1 cm long^ in fruit 1.5 to 3 
cm long, bracteoles none or fugacious. Sepals 8, lanceolate, somewhat 
acuminate, vahate, about 11 mm long, 3 mm wide, keeled and glab- 
rous inside, except along the somewhat pubescent margins. Petals 8, lan- 
ceolate, induplieate, about 8 mm long, 3 mm wide, densely villous, 
especially inside, acute or acuminate, entire. Stamens about 40 ; filaments 
1.5 mm long; anthers linear^ minutely scabrid, somewhat curved, about 
4.5 mm long, the apex aristate, the awn nearly 1.5 mm long. Ovary 
ovoid, densely villous, 2-celled, each cell several-ovuled. Fruit ovoid, 
glabrous, shining, dark blue, about 1.3 cm long, 8 or 9 mm in diameter, 
obtuse, with a bony 1-celled stone. 
ilr.NDAXAO, Lake Liuiao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens llffS, September, 1907. 
A very characteristic species, differing from all others in the genus in its 8 
petals and sepals, for which a new section is necessary, which I call Octelaeo- 
carpus. 
Elaeocarpus mindanaensis Merrill sp. nov. § Dicera. 
Arbor parva, ramis ramulis foliis racemis calycibusque plus minus 
dense ferrugineo-pubcscentibus; foliis elliptico-ovatis vel oblongo-ovatis, 
acuminatis, nervis utrinque ca. 8; racemis axillaribus, multifloris; pet- 
alis 5, fimbriatis, extus basi parce villosis; staminibus obtusis; ovario 
3-loculari. 
A small tree, rather densely pubescent, the branches terete, glabrous 
in age, the younger parts densely ferruginous-pubescent. Leaves sub- 
coriaceous, elliptical-ovate to oblong-ovate, 8 to 16 cm long, 4 to 8.5 
cm wide, the apex acuminate, base acute to some\\'hat rounded, the 
margins irregularly crenate-dentate, the teeth small, glabrous above in 
age, except on tlie pubescent midrib and nerves, beneath rather densely 
pubescent; nerves 8 on each side of i\\Q midrib, very prominent beneath, . 
the reticulations also very distinct^ petioles densely pubescent, 2 to 
3.5 cm long. Eacemes axillary, solitary, 10 cm long or less, the 
rachis, bracteoles, pedicels and sepals densely pubescent. Pedicels al)out 
8 mm long, each subtended by a deciduous linear 8 or 9 mm long 
bracteole, each bracteole with two or three small lobes. Sepals oblong, 
C mm long, 3.5 mm wide. Petals about 7 mm long, cuneate, glabrous 
except for a few hairs on the lower poriion outside, fimbriate to the 
middle. Stamens about 30; fdaments about 1.5 mm long, minutely 
