426 MERRILL. 
D. pilosanthera Blanco. 
Camiguin, 4000 Fenix. 
Widely distributed in the Pliilippines; endeinic. 
D. maritima Blume Bijdr. (1825) 669; Hiern Monog. Eben. (1873) 211. 
FUGA, S2ol Mearns. 
Here first credited to the Philippines, hut represented in our herbarium by 
many specimens from various parts of the Archipelago; widely distributed in 
Mahiya, extending to northern Australia. 
Diospyros sabtanense Merrill sp. nov. § Ernwllinns. 
Erutex 4 ad 5 m alta: foliis alternis, papyraceis, ellipticis, oblongo- 
olHpticis, vel obovato-ellipticis, apice obtusis, basi acutis, 6 ad 12 cm 
loiigis, supra nitidis; nervis utrinque 7 vel 8; fioribus feiuineis axillaribus, 
sessilibus, soiitariis vel binis, pubeseentibus, 4-moris, tiibo cylindraceo; 
slaminodiis 8; ovario ovoideo, 8-loculari, loculis 1-ovulatis. 
A shrub 4 to 5 m high. Branches and branchlets terete, brown, the 
former glabrous, the latter somewhat pubescent. Leaves alternate, papy- 
raceous, elliptical, oblong-elliptical or obovate-elliptical, G to 1^ cm long, 
2.5 to 6 cm wide, the apex obtuse, the base acute, glabrous and shining 
on the ui)per surface, beneath glabrous or with very few scattered hairs; 
nerves 7 or 8 on each side of the midrib, distinct, anastomosing, the 
reticulations distinct, netted; petioles glabrous or slightly pubescent, 
5 to 9 mm long. Tistillate flowers axillary, solitary or in pairs, sessile. 
Calyx broadly funnel-shapod, pubescent, the tube short, 3 mm in diameter, 
the lobes 4, orbicular, accrescent, pubescent, rounded, the margins re- 
flexed. Corolla about 12 mm long, the tube cylindrical, about 6 mm 
long, 4.5 mm in diameter, appressed-pubescent outside, glabrous Avithin, 
the lobes 4, erect in bud, in antliesis spreading, oblong-ovate or elliptical, 
blunt, coriaceous, glabrous inside, the median portion outside appressed- 
pubescent. Staminodes 8, about 4.5 mm long. Ovar}- ovoid, narrowed 
above, pubescent, S-celled, each cell 1-ovuled; styles 5, about 3 mm long. 
Staminate flowers axillary, fascicled, sessile or subsessile, pubescent. 
Calyx cu]>ular, 5 mm long, the teeth 4, ovate, acute. Corolla about 10 
mm long. Stamens 12 to 14, unequal, 2-seriate; anthers nai-rowly 
lanceolate, apiculale, glabrous, 3 to 4 mm' long, the cells dehiscing by 
lateral slits. Rudimentary ovar}- none. • 
Sabtan, Hut. Sci. 37/;5, Sir>l Fenix, June 4, 1907, along mountain streams, 
the flowers yellow. N. v., Canarem. 
A species probably allied to Diospyros carthei Hiern, but differing from it in 
manj' characters. 
SYMrLOCA(^E.E. 
SYMPLOCOS Jacq. 
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S, ferruginea Roxb., var. philippinensis Brand. 
Camk^lix, J,J33 Finix. 
Tlie variety known only from tlie Philippines, the .p.-cies widely distributed 
from India to southern China and Malaya. 
