ALABASTRA PHTLIPPINEXSIA, 11. 213 
A tree attaining a height of 24 m^, with a trunk 40 cm in diameter, 
containing little gmn, the bark gi-ayish, that of the ultimate branches 
brownish-gra}^, many-ridged and fiu-rowed, shortly ferruginous-tomcntose 
or glabrcscent, conspicuously scarred by Icnticels, the l)uds surrounded 
by very conspicuous oblong scales 1.7 cm long and 9 mm wide, ar- 
genteous wiihout^ pergamaceous; leaves borne on stout petioles 1.5-2.5 
cm long, the lamina oblaneeolate to obovate, 21-43 cm long, 7.5-16 cm 
wide, at the apex shortly and usually obtusely acuminate, acute at the 
l)ase, glabrous on the upper surface, very densely and very minutely 
lepidote on the under surface, or when young somewhat femiginous- 
tomentosc; midrili very prominent on the under surface, primary lateral 
veins on each side of the midrib 17 or 18. 
Type collected at Caiinj Iveillilcy, Lake Lanao, [Mindimao, by Miwy Strong 
demons, no. 1017, in ilower and fruit, April, 1907; also. represented Ly Mrs. Cle- 
mens lir)Jf, 1155a, September, 1907, and 5 unnnnibercd sheets, collected in May and 
June, 1007, all from the same locality; also by WiUioms 2191, 2308, 2318, all from 
Sax lliver, District of Zamboanga, :Mindanao, February and Ifavch, 1905; the 
various specimens showing every stage of development from lni.ls io what is 
believed to be mature fruit. 
EBENACILl]. 
DIOSPYROS Linn. 
Diospyros pauciflorus sp. nov. 
Arbor; floribus ignotis; fructibus solitariis vel rarius binis, fere scs- 
silibus, globoso-ovoideis, 4 em diamctro, 4- vel 5-locularibus, loculis dis- 
pcrmis, scminibus testa atra obtectis, albumine non ruminate; foliis 
alternis, petiolatis, olivaceis, coriaceis, lanceolatis vel anguste oblongis. 
Fruits somewhat fleshy, glabrous, brownish or blackish when dry, 
ovoid-globose, 4 cm in diameter, solitary or rarely paired, almost sessile, 
probably originally axillary; the fruiting calyx 4-lobed, coriaceous, Jerru- 
gi nous-pubescent without, 1.4 cm long, divided for nearly half its length 
into 4 orbicular-ovate lobes with strongly revolute margins, forming a 
broad channel on their under side all the way to the nearly acute apex; 
fruits 4- or 5-eelled, each cell containing 2 collateral seeds; the seeds 
oblong in outline, oblaneeolate in section, 2.1 cm long, tapering to a 
rounded apex, the testa black, the albumen not ruminate. 
A tree 12 m in height,'with a trunk 12.5 cm in diameter, the smaller 
branches covered with blackish bark, tliat of the ultimate ones dark- 
gray to brown, glabrous, striate; leaves alternate, borne on rough chan- . 
neled petioles 1-1.2 cm long and 2-3 mm in diameter, the lamina 
glabrous, entire, olivaceous, shining on the upper surface, narro>\ly oblong 
or lanceolate, 13-2G cm long, 4-5 cm wide, acute and somewhat decurrent 
at the base, at the apex tapering to an obtuse acumen 2 em long; primary 
latci-a] veins on each side of the midrib 15-17, fontuug a vein about 5-8 
