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the margins, the glands very obscure on the upper surface; 
lateral nerves about 8 on each side of the midrib, curved-anasto- 
mosing, obscure on the upper surface, rather prominent on the 
lower surface, the reticulations not conspicuous; petioles 5 to 
7mm long. Racemes mostly axillary on the ultimate branchlets, 
solitary or in pairs, 1 to 2 cm long, rather many-flowered, the 
axis and pedicels glandular-pubescent with brown hairs. Flow- 
ers white, 5-merous, their pedicels slender, about 4 mm long, 
the bracts linear, 1 mm long. Sepals 5, nearly free, oblong, 
about 1 mm long, acute, glandular, pubescent. Petals elliptic, 
symmetrical, rounded, glabrous, about 2 mm long, with few 
conspicuous black glands. Filaments glabrous, 3 mm long. 
LUZON, Nueva Vizcaya Province, Dupax, Bur. Sci. 20098 Mc- 
Gregor, January, 1913. 
This species is apparently as closely allied to Embelia tsjeriam- 
cottan A. DC. as to any other, but differs in numerous details. 
EMBELIA OVATIFOLIA sp. nov. § Pattara. 
Frutex scandens, inflorescentiis exceptis glaber, ramulis 1.5 
mm diametro; foliis ovatis, chartaceis, 6 ad 8 cm longis, olivaceis, 
nitidis, acuminatis, basi late rotundatis, utrinque glandulis per- 
spicuis instructis, nervis utrinque circiter 10, perspicuis;-racemis 
axillaribus, solitariis, binis vel trinis, circiter 2 cm longis, pubes- 
centibus; floribus perspicue pedicellatis, 5-meris, calycis lobis 
ovatis, acutis vel obtusis, 0.6 mm longis, margine obscure ciliatis, 
glandulis paucis magnis perspicuis instructis; fructibus globosis, 
4 ad 5 mm diametro. 
A scandent shrub, glabrous except the glandular-pubescent 
racemes, the branches mostly grayish, about 5 mm in diameter, 
obscurely lenticellate, the branchlets slender, 1.5 mm in diam- 
eter, brownish. Leaves ovate, chartaceous, olivaceous, shin- 
ing, 6 to 8 cm long, 4 to 5 em wide, entire, the apex obtusely 
acuminate, the base broadly rounded, both surfaces conspicuously 
glandular, the glands black; lateral nerves about 10 on each side 
of the midrib, slender, distinct; petioles 8 to 10 mm long. 
Racemes axillary, solitary or in pairs or in threes, about 2 cm 
long, the pedicels 3 or 4 mm long, pubescent, the bracts lan- 
ceolate-acuminate from a broad base, puberulent, about 1 mm 
long, persistent. Calyx 2 mm in diameter, the lobes ovate, acute 
or obtuse, 0.6 mm long, with a few large and conspicuous, 
reddish glands in the upper one-half, the margin obscurely ciliate. 
Fruits globose, 4 to 5 mm in diameter. 
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