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three-fourths the length of the lamina or farther on the narrower side; 
stipules membranaceous, together oblong-lanceolate, free for about 3 mm 
at the apex, in all 9 to 15 ram long. 
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Luzon, Province of Cagayan, Maunan, Bur. Sci, 1821 Ramos (tj^pe, pistillate) : 
Province of Uoeos Sur, Sugpan, For, Bur. U0Jf6 Merritt S Darling. This is 
very close in goiieraT appearance and in nearly all of its characters to L. oralifolia, 
and can only be .told with certainty by means of the stipules, whicli are connate 
except at the apex, in contrast to L. ovalifolia where they are separate throughout 
the greater part of their length, often becoming free, probably through pres- 
sure from the expanding leaves. Had not the nature of the stipules proven 
so characteristic in all the other cases, these two species would not have been 
held distinct. They nearly agree with the description of L. Mspidissima, but 
are very distinct from the species here called by that name. 
7. Leucosyke ovalifolia sp. nov. 
Frutex : pedunculis pistillif eris solitariis vel geminis, breviter pedun- 
eulatis: foliis niediocriter petiolatis, rigide membranaceis, saepissime 
ovalibus, basi rotundatis vel obtusis, margine basi excepta acute serratis, 
apice breviter acuminatis, trinerviis ; stipulis liberis anguste lineari- 
lanceolatis, vel basi solum connatis, membranaceis, usque ad 15 mm 
longis. 
Pistillate peduncles solitary or paired, 2 to 4 mm long, the capitula 
about 5 to 6 mm in diameter; flowers subsessile, the perianth about 1 mm 
in diameter, oblique, with one rather conspicuous and 2 or 4 other obscure 
lobes; ovary obliquely ovate, laterally compressed, about 1.4 mm long; 
stigma penieillate-capitate. 
Shrub, about 2.5 m high, the branchlets annulate and scarred, with 
deciduous appressed or spreading white substrigose pubescence, intemodes 
usually short: petioles 1.5 to 3 cm long, sparingly strigose, lamina rigidly 
membranaceous, oval or nearly oval, 6 to 9 cm long, 4 to 6 cm wide, the 
base rounded or obtuse, the margins except at the base serrate, the teeth 
acute or apiculate, hair-tipped, the sinuses broadly rounded, the apex 
shortly acuminate, usually abruptly; trinerved, the neiwes continuing for 
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at least three-fourths the length of the lamina, additional primary veins 
2 or 3, all venation impressed on the upper surface, projecting from the 
under, upper surface appressed-strigose and usually somewhat scabrous, 
veins of under surface strigose, the interstices grayish- or white-tomentose; 
stipules membranaceous, free and unicostate, triangular-lanceolate, or 
united for less than one-fourth of their length and bicostate, up to 1.5 
cm in length including the long-exseiied costas. 
Lrzox, Province of Zambales, Subig, Uallier s, n. Clliox, Merrill 481 (type). 
Palawaw, Iwahig, Merrill 706. Very distinct from L. capitellata, especially in 
the nature of its stipules, but by them alone separable from L. brunnescens, from 
which it may not prove distinct. 
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