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about 15 on each side of the midrib, spreading, these and the 
ultimate reticulations projecting and very distinct on both 
surfaces; petioles about 1 cm long. Panicles terminal, about 25 
em long, the flowers racemosely arranged on the ultimate branch- 
lets, the younger parts of the inflorescences more or less puberu- 
lent, the ultimate branchlets up to 5 cm in length. Flowers 
white, 5-merous, their pedicels about 0.5 mm long, the bracts 
ovate, nearly as long as the pedicels. Calyx puberulent, 2 mm 
in diameter, shallowly 5-lobed, with few brown, conspicuous 
glands, the lobes triangular-ovate, acute, 0.5 mm long and ‘as 
broad as long, the margins slightly ciliate. Petals oblong-elliptic, 
2 to 2.2 mm long, nearly glabrous outside, inside rather densely 
papillate-puberulent, the glands few, brown, conspicuous. Fila- 
ments 2 mm long, glabrous, the connectives glandular in the 
upper one-half. 
MINDANAO, Bukidnon Subprovince, near Tankulan, Bur. Sct. 
39069 Ramos & Edafio, July 20,1920. Inthickets along streams 
at an altitude of about 900 meters; locally known as kalumai. 
This species belongs in the group with Embelia javanica A. 
DC. and among the Philippine forms is apparently most closely 
allied to Embelia urdanetensis Elm., from which it is distin- 
guished’ by its larger, differently shaped leaves, which are 
rounded and not acute at the base. 
EMBELIA LUZONIENSIS sp. nov. § Pattara. 
Frutex scandens, inflorescentiis exceptis glaber; ramis 2 mm 
diametro; foliis oblongo-ovatis ad elliptico-ovatis, 5.5 ad 8 cm 
longis, chartaceis, utrinque angustatis, apice obtusis ad obscure 
obtuse acuminatis, basi acutis, in siccitate brunneis, subtus pal- 
lidioribus et plus minusve punctatis, nervis utrinque circiter 8, 
perspicuis; inflorescentiis plerumque axillaribus, racemosis, so- 
litariis vel binis, circiter 2 cm longis, prunneo-glanduloso-pubes- 
centibus; floribus manifeste pedicellatis, 5-meris, sepalis oblongis, 
1 mm longis, glandulosis, pubescentibus; petalis ellipticis, sym- 
metricis, rotundatis, 2 mm longis, glabris, glandulis paucis per- 
spicuis instructis; filamentis glabris, 3 mm longis. 
A scandent shrub, glabrous except the inflorescences, branches 
slender, terete, brown, about 2 mm in diameter, obscurely 
lenticellate. Leaves oblong-ovate to elliptic-ovate, 5.5 to 8 cm 
long, 3 to 4 cm wide, subequally narrowed to the obtuse or 
obscurely and obtusely acuminate apex and to the acute base, 
dark brown when dry, scarcely shining, the lower surface paler 
than the upper and distinctly glandular-punctate especially near 
