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villous branchlets and lower surface of the leaves and in its 
slenderly caudate-acuminate leaves which are more numerously 
nerved than in the latter species. 
CLEISTANTHUS Hooker f. 
CLEISTANTHUS BARROSII sp. nov. § Ferruginosi. 
Arbor circiter 8 m alta, ramulis et petiolis et subtus foliis 
ad costa nervisque ferrugineo-pubescentibus; foliis chartaceis, 
olivaceis, nitidis, oblongo-ovatis ad oblongo-ellipticis, 14 ad 20 
cm longis, 5 ad 8 cm latis, acuminatis, basi acutis, nervis utrinque 
circiter 8, perspicuis; fasciculis ferrugineo-pubescentibus, ca- 
lycis tubo 1.4 mm longo, lobis oblongo-lanceolatis, acuminatis, 
tubo aequantibus, petalis obovatis, circiter 1 mm longis; fructibus 
obovoideis, 8 ad 10 mm longis, retusis, junioribus parce ferru- 
gineo-villosis, vetustioribus glabris vel subglabris. 
A tree about 8 m high, the branchlets, petioles, and midribs 
and nerves on the lower surface of the leaves rather densely 
ferruginous-pubescent. Branches terete, smooth, glabrous, 3 
to 4 mm in diameter, grayish or brownish when dry. Leaves 
oblong-ovate to oblong-elliptic, 14 to 20 cm long, 5 to 8 cm wide, 
chartaceous, olivaceous, somewhat shining, distinctly acuminate, 
base acute, the upper surface entirely glabrous; lateral nerves 
about 8 on each side of the midrib, prominent, ascending, the 
reticulations distinct; petioles about 1 cm long. Fascicles 
axillary, densely ferruginous-pubescent, the bracts broadly ovate, 
slightly acuminate, about 3 mm long. Pistillate calyx appressed- 
pubescent, the tube about 1.4 mm long, the lobes oblong-lan- 
ceolate, somewhat acuminate, about as long as the tube. Petals 
obovate, 1 mm long or less. Fruits reddish-yellow when fresh, 
dark-brown when dry, distinctly stipitate, ellipsoid or obovoid, 
retuse, 8 to 10 mm long, the younger ones sparingly ferruginous- 
villous, in age glabrous or nearly so. 
LUZON, Isabela Province, Ilagan, For. Bur. 26070 Barros, June 
28, 1916. In primary forests on slopes at an altitude of about 
200 meters. 
A species belonging in the section Ferruginosi and apparently 
most closely allied to Cleistanthus rufescens Jabl. 
CLEIDION Blume 
CLEIDION RAMOSI! (Merr.) comb. nov. 
Mallotus ramosii Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 7 (1912) Bot. 401; 
Pax & Hoffm. in Engl. Pflanzenreich 63 (1914) 195. 
Mallotus samarensis Merr. op. cit. 9 (1914) 488; Pax & Hoffm. op. cit. 
68 (1919) 18, 
