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2.5 to 6,cm wide, entire, chartaceous, pale olivaceous when dry, 
subequally narrowed to the somewhat acuminate apex and 
abruptly obtuse base; the lower surface conspicuously glandular- 
punctate, especially near the margins, the glands often nearly 
black; lateral nerves about 15 on each side of the midrib, slender, 
distinct as are the reticulations. Inflorescences very short, 
racemose or depauperate-paniculate, 1 to 1.5 cm long, one to sev- 
eral, from the tip of the short, specialized, extra-axillary, lateral 
branches, these specialized branches 1 cm long or less, about 2 
mm in diameter, marked with numerous, conspicuous scars of 
fallen peduncles, the apical bracts lanceolate, acuminate, 3 to 4 
mm long. Flowers 5-merous, their pedicels up to 2 mm long. 
Calyx and corolla very conspicuously black-glandular, the calyx 
lobes triangular-ovate, acute or obtuse, 0.8 mm long. Petals 
elliptic-obovate, obtuse, 3 mm long. Filaments and anthers each 
about 1 mm long. Ovary equaling the style in length, glandular. 
MINDANAO, Zamboanga District, Bur. Sci. 37463 Ramos & 
Edaiio, December, 1919. Along streams in forests at low al- 
titudes. 
A species allied to Discocalyx sessilifolia Merr. but with thin- 
ner, rather slenderly acuminate, prominently glandular-punctate 
leaves, and with very much shorter inflorescences. 
DISCOCALYX PHANEROPHLEBIA sp. nov. 
Frutex erectus, simplex, caulis sursum 1.5 ad 2 cm diametro; 
foliis oblanceolatis ad oblongo-oblanceolatis, 45 ad 60 cm longis, 
coriaceis, olivaceis, acutis, deorsum angustatis, margine deorsum 
integris, sursum dentatis vel crenato-dentatis, costa subtus valde 
incrassata, nervis utrinque circiter 20, supra impressis, subtus 
valde perspicuis; infructescentiis paniculatis, 2.5 ad 6 cm longis, 
in ramis specialibus lateralibus incrassatis 5 ad 10 cm longis dis- 
positis; fructibus globosis, 8 mm diametro, calycis persistentibus 
5-meris, 8 mm diametro, lobis late ovatis, obtusis, glanduloso- 
punctatis. 
An erect, apparently unbranched, glabrous shrub 1 to 2 m 
high, the leaves crowded near the apex of the trunk, the stem 
here 1.5 to 2 cm in diameter. Leaves oblanceolate to oblong- 
oblancolate, 45 to 60 cm long, coriaceous, the upper surface 
olivaceous when dry, the lower surface much paler and not, 
or very inconspicuously, punctate, the apex acute, gradually 
narrowed below to the long-decurrent base, the margins in the 
lower one-fourth to one-third entire, above rather closely dentate 
or crenate-dentate, the teeth small; midrib very prominent on 
