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evident on both surfaces, projecting on the lower^ arching and anastomo- 
sing but hardly forming a snbmarginal vein^ iiner reticulation also evident. 
Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Port Banga, For. Bur. WJ, (type), OJ/f/^ 
Whiiford d Hutchinson, This species was deliberately omitted from my previous 
summary of tlie genus on the ground that the unusually soft fruits might entitle 
it to generic segregation. It differs in no other respect from typical Clcisianihus, 
It is closely allied to C. isaleUinus Elmer, from Sibuyan, differing in the characters 
noted above, and in the much stouter branches. 
Cleistanthus misamisensis sp. nov. 
Arbor praecedenti affinis, sed diffcrt fioribus staminifcris minoribus, 
stylis basi coalitis, foliis chartaceis, ramulis tenuioribus. 
Staminate and pistillate flowers borne together in clusters surrounded 
by numerous very short ferruginous bracts: staminate flowers on very 
short stout glabrous pedicels; calyx at anthesis 2 mm long, split about 
two-thirds of the distance to the base into 5 ovate obtuse glabrous lobes; 
petals 5, obovate, denticulate toward the acuminate apex; disk thin, 
slightly 10-lobed; androphore thick, seen up to a length of 1 mm to the 
insertion of the filaments; filaments 5, 1.5 mm long; anthers ovate, 0.8 
mm long; rudimentary ovary subglobosc continuing without evident 
contraction into 3 styles, in all 1 mm long: fruiting calyx similar to that 
of the staminate flowers; petals also subsimilar; fruit probably less suc- 
culent than in C. mindanaensis , green, seen up to 1 mm in diameter, 
3-celled; style usually more or less damaged, but enough remaining to 
show with certainty that it is imitcd for about 1 mm and then forms 
3 arms of shorter length, no trace of bifurcation remaining. 
A tree, 4 m high, its trunk 15 cm in diameter, the branches and 
branchlets slender, bark gray or yellowish-gray, glabrous except around 
the inflorescences: petioles fairly stout, 3,5 to 7 mm long, annulate, 
glabrous; lamina chartaceous, elliptic or oblong, 11.5 to 18.5 cm long, 
5 to over 7 cm wide, the base obtuse or very slightly cmarginatc, tlie 
margins entire, the apex forming an obtuse acumen 7 or 8 mm long; 
upper surface somewhat olivaceous-grccn, shining, under surface paler, 
minutely pubescent; pairs of veins 9 to 13, evident on both surfaces, 
projecting on the lower, they and the minor venation much as m C. 
mindanacnsxs, but the reticulations somewhat laxer. 
Mindanao, Province of Misamis, Iligan, at 50 m elevation, For. Bur, mGS 
Pray <G Ccnalrc, Ahem 577, from Tetuan, Zamboanga Mindanao, is almost 
certainly the same, but is sterile. The species has much similarUy to C. rmn- 
danacnL, but seems distinct by reason of the characters already noted. 
Cleistanthus myrianthoides sp. nov. 
Arbor : Cleistantho myriantlio Kurz habitu proximo acccJcne. sed dif- 
fcrt floribus semper pediccllatis, stylis 2, et notis aliis minus ocnspicms 
Flowers monoecious, both kinds on pedicels 15 to mm long in tl 
same ratlier few-flowerod glomerules, subtended at the base by short 
