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densely pubescent, 2.5 to 3.5 cm long; stipules linear, pubescent, 
caducous, 9 to 18 mm long. Flowers crowded on the ultimate 
branchlets with or just below the leaves, the pedicels and calyces 
densely and softly ferruginous-pubescent, the former 1.5 to 2 
em long. Calyx lobes 4, 2-seriate, oblong-elliptic, obtuse, about 
12 mm long, 6 mm wide. Ovary glabrous, 10-celled. Petals 
and stamens not seen. Fruits oblong-ellipsoid, brown, obtuse, 
about 4 cm long. 
LuzON, Camarines Province, Nabua, For. Bur. 28399 Labitag, 
April 30, 1921. In primary dipterocarp forest at an altitude 
of about 200 meters, with the local name banites. The same 
species is represented by Merrill 2601 from Tayabas Province, 
Luzon, as well as by imperfect sterile specimens including seed- 
lings collected by Ware, Hagger, and Garcia in Camarines and 
Tayabas Provinces. A sterile specimen from Cotabato District, 
Mindanao, collected by Hutchinson, undoubtedly represents the 
same species. Additional native names are manilig (Mag.) ; 
betis and betis lalake (Tag.). 
This «species is manifestly closely allied to Madhuca betis 
(Blanco) Merr. and several of the specimens cited above were 
originally referred to that species. Madhuca betis, however, 
has the leaves very densely and softly pubescent on the lower 
surface, while in the present species they are glabrous or nearly 
so on both surfaces. 
OLEACEAE 
LINOCIERA Swartz 
LINOCIERA LONGIFOLIA sp. nov. 
Arbor parva, glabra; foliis lanceolatis ad oblongo-lanceolatis, 
22 ad 30 cm longis, 5 ad 7 cm latis, coriaceis, utrinque angustatis, 
basi plus minusve decurrento-acuminatis, apice obtusis, nervis 
utrinque 13 ad 15, tenuibus, anastomosantibus, reticulis sub- 
obsoletis; inflorescentiis axillaribus, solitariis, paniculatis, 4 cm 
longis, floribus subumbellatim dispositis, pedicellatis; calycis cu- 
pulatis, 1.5 mm diametro, breviter 4-lobatis, lobis triangulari- 
ovatis, acutis vel obtusis. 
A glabrous tree about 10 m high, the branchlets distinctly com- 
pressed at the nodes. Leaves lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 22 
to 30 cm Jong, 5 to 7 cm wide, coriaceous, rather pale when dry, 
opposite, entire, narrowed below to the somewhat decurrent- 
acuminate base and above to the obtuse apex, more or less 
verruculose; nerves 18 to 15 on each side of the midrib, slender, 
slightly projecting on the lower surface, anastomosing, the retic- 
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