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Leaves alternate, oblong to narrowly oblong-ovate, chartaceous, 
10 to 20 cm long, 4 to 9 cm vi^ide, when dry shining and of 
about the same color on both surfaces, glabrous, the apex promi- 
nently and sharply acuminate, the base rather broadly rounded 
or subacute; nerves about 7 on each side of the midrib, some- 
what ascending, prominent, anastomosing near the margin, the 
reticulations lax, distinct; petioles 3 to 5 mm long, slightly 
pubescent; stipules oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 8 to 10 mm 
long, glabrous or nearly so, often slightly falcate. Male flowers 
unknown. Female racemes terminal, solitary, 5 to 15 cm 
long, pubescent. Flowers 4-merous. Fruit ov'oid, slightly com- 
pressed, rugose when dry, purple, 4 to 5 mm long, glabrous, 
tipped by the remains of the style; pedicels pubescent, about 
2 mm long. Persistent calyx pubescent, the lobes 4, ovate, acute, 
about 0.5 mm long. 
Mindanao, District of ZamBoanga, Sax River, San Ramon, Williams 
2117 (type), February 5, 1905, Hallier s. n., February, 1904; near Zam- 
boanga, Merrill 827^, December 6, 1911. 
Apparently distinct from aU other Philippine forms, and possibly most 
closely allied to Antidesnia cumingianum Muell.-Arg., but very different 
from that species. It appears to be well characterized by its shortly 
petioled leaves, its pubescent simple racemes, 4-merous flowers, and oblong- 
lanceolate stipules. 
BLUMEODENDRON Kurz. 
BLUMEODENDRON SUBROTUNDIFOLIUM (Elm.) comb, no v. 
Sapium subrotuyidi folium Elm. Leafi. Philip. Bot. 3 (1910) 930. 
SiBUYAN, Elmer 1231,9, April, 1910, type number. 
Although the flowers of this species are unknown, and the fruits in the 
type collection very immature, I have no hesitation in transferring the 
species from Sapiuvi, to which genus it cannot possibly be referred, to 
Blumeodendron, Kurz's genus has been sunk in Mallotus as a subgenus, 
but is so very different from the other plants usually grouped under Mal- 
lotus that I consider J. J. Smith* entirely justified, in his recent treat- 
ment of Blumeodendrouy in again restoring it to generic rank. We have 
in the Philippines a second species of the genus, as yet undescribed, repre- 
sented by abundant material, with vegetative characters very similar indeed 
to Bliimeodendron subrotundi folium, but with entirely different fruits. 
BR! DELIA Willdenow. 
BRIDELIA PLATYPHYLLA sp. nov. § Monospermae. 
Species B. moonii Thw,, ut videtur similis et affinis, differt 
foliis distincte acuminatis, utrinque glabris. 
A tree 8 to 20 m high, quite glabrous except for the slightly 
pubescent axillary fascicles. Branches terete, slender, lenti- 
•Meded. Dept. Landbouw 10 (1910) 458 (Koorders & Valeton Bijdr. 
Boomsoort. Java 12). 
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