PHILIPPINE PLANTS, IX. 325 
the margins; nerves 15 to 20 on each side of the midrib, rather 
distinct on the lower surface, anastomosing and forming sub- 
marginal nerves very close to the edges of the leaf; petioles 8 
to 12 mm long. Flowers unknown. Infrutescence leaf-opposed 
or subterminal, always at the tips of the branchlets, the peduncle 
5 mm long or less, bearing usually about 4 or 5 umbellately 
arranged primary branchlets 1 to 1.5 cm in length, the branchlets 
in turn bearing usually two umbellately arranged fruits, the 
pedicels as long as the peduncles. Fruit globose, about 8 mm 
in diameter, very prominently marked with round and elongated 
glands, the persistent calyx about 7 mm in diameter, promi- 
nently glandular-punctate, the lobes oblong, obtuse, about 2.6 
mm long, not at all ciliate. 
Luzon, Province of Cagayan, Abulug River, For, Bur, 1961S Curran, 
Bur. ScL 1S968 Ramos (type), January, 1912, in forests. 
^ A species probably most closely allied to Ardisia jagori Mez, but very 
distinct in vegetative and other characters. 
DISCOCALYX Mez. 
DISCOCALYX LONGIFOLIA sp. nov. 
Frutex glaber 2.5 m altus; foliis oblanceolatis, circiter 55 cm 
longis, coriaceis, acutis vel acuminatis, basi angustatis, acutis, 
margine supra distincte dentatis; inflorescentiis bipinnatim 
paniculatis, tenuibus, panicuhs fasciculatis, in ramis specialibus 
dispositis; floribus 0.3 mm diametro, prominente glanduloso- 
punctatis. 
A glabrous, dioecious shrub about 2.5 m high. Leaves appa- 
rently crowded at the apices of the branches, coriaceous, oblan- 
ceolate, about 55 cm long, 11 cm wide at the upper two-thirds, 
from there gradually narrowed to the acute or cuneate base, the 
apex acute or acuminate, the margins in the upper two-thirds 
distinctly and regularly dentate, the lower surface obscurely 
glandular-punctate; nerves 40 or more on each side of the 
midrib, rather distinct, anastomosing, the ultimate reticulations 
indistinct, petioles stout, about 4 cm long. Inflorescence of 
slender, bipinnately paniculate panicles 10 cm long or less, which 
are fascicled near the apices of stout, specialized branches, these 
branches about 4 mm thick, more or less thickened at their 
apices and marked with scars of fallen bracts. Male flowers 
crimson, about 3 mm in diameter, the calyx rotate, very prom- 
inently glandular-punctate, the glands black, the lobes oblong, 
obtuse, about 1.3 mm long, their margins thin, subhyaline. Co- 
rolla of the same diameter as the caljoc, prominently and densely 
glandular-punctate with black glands, the lobes oblong-ovate. 
