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tenuibus, quam nervulae transversales non magis prominentibus; 
inflorescentiis axillaribus, circiter 3 cm longis, a rhachis basi 
apiceque radiato-ramosis ; floribus in apice ramulorum umbe- 
llatis. 
A small tree, glabrous throughout. Branches stout, the older 
ones terete, the younger ones 4-angled, the ultimate ones about 
5 mm thick, 4-angled and distinctly 4-winged, the wings about 
1.5 mm wide. Leaves narrowly oblong or oblong, thickly coria- 
ceous, shining when dry, pale-brownish, 20 to 35 cm long, 3.5 
to 7 cm wide, apex shortly acuminate, base somewhat narrowed, 
narrowly subcordate-rounded ; transverse nerves 35 to 40, 
straight, spreading, not prominent, not more distinct than are 
the submarginal, slightly arcuate, longitudinal nerves, the mid- 
rib prominent; petioles almost obsolete, stout. Inflorescence 
axillary, 3 cm long or less, radiately branched from the base 
and also from the apex of the short rachis, the flowers purple, 
in rather dense umbels at the thickened apices of the branches, 
their pedicels 2 to 3 mm long. Calyx 2 mm in diameter. 
Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Port Banga, For. Bur, 938S Whitford 
& Hutchinson, January, 1908. 
A species well characterized by its elongate, coriaceous leaves, which 
are subsessile, narrowed and somewhat rounded-cordate at the base, and 
by its numerous, not prominent lateral nerves which are about as promi- 
nent as the submarginal longitudinal ones, and its prominently 4-winged 
branchlets. It is allied to Memecylon paniculatum Jack, but is very diiferent 
from that species. 
16. MEMECYLON LOHERI sp. nov. 
Species M. venoso affinis, differt foliis minus crassioribus, 
basi rotundatis vix cordatis, inflorescentiis longe gratiliterque 
pedunculatis, subsimplicibus, paucifloris, pedunculis gracilibus, 
obscure angulatis. 
An erect shrub or small tree, quite glabrous, the branches 
terete, grayish-brown, slender, the branchlets usually brownish, 
very slender, distinctly 4-angled. Leaves chartaceous, ovate to 
oblong-ovate, 5 to 7 cm long, 2.5 to 3.5 cm wide, narrowed above 
to the rather slender acumen, the base rather broadly rounded, 
not cordate, somewhat shining when dry, usually olivaceous, not 
brown, the lower surface somewhat paler than the upper; lateral 
nerves prominent, slender, 7 to 10 on each side of the midrib, 
anastomosing with the somewhat arched submarginal nerves, 
the latter as prominent as the lateral ones; petioles 2 mm 
long or less. Inflorescence axillary, solitary, long-peduncled, 
cymose, the peduncles very slender, about 0.5 mm in diameter, 
obscurely angled, 2.5 to 4 cm long, the branchlets subumbellately 
