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upper surface dark brownish-olivaceous, the lower uniformly 

 brown in color, the cystoliths small, very numerous, slightly in- 

 equilateral, oblong, straight or slightly falcate, 5 to 9 cm long, 

 2 to 3.5 cm wide, entire, rather prominently acuminate, base 

 acute; lateral nerves 5 or 6 on each side of the midrib, promi- 

 nent, curved, the reticulations obsolete or nearly so; petioles 

 short, the younger ones minutely lepidote as are the very tips 

 of the branchlets and the midrib on the lower surface of young 

 leaves. Staminate inflorescences solitary, from the axils of 

 fallen leaves, many flowered, long peduncled, apparently pen- 

 dulous, cymose, obscurely brown-lepidote, the peduncles slender, 

 4 to 6 cm long, the cymes lax, 5 to 6 cm in diameter. Buds 

 globose, about 2 mm in diameter, the sepals oblong-obovate, 

 obtuse, about 2 mm long. Female inflorescence axillary, mostly 

 in the upper axils, capitate, hemispheric, very dense, about 5 

 mm in diameter, very many flowered, the flowers crowded, 

 minute, the achenes narrowly ellipsoid, about 1 mm long. 



JjUZON, Province of Sorsogon, Mount Pocdal, Bur. Sci. 28705 Ramos, 

 August 7, 1915, on trees in the mossy forest. 



A species manifestly allied to Procris pseudostrigosa Elm., but easily 

 distinguished by the characters mentioned in the diagnosis above. 



PROTEACEAE 



HE LI CIA Loureiro 

 HELICIA OLIGOPHLEBIA sp. nov. 



Arbor parva, glabra ; foliis olivaceis, breviter petiolatis, niti- 

 dis, glabris, ovatis ad elliptico-ovatis, coriaceis, utrinque sub- 

 aequaliter angustatis, usque ad 10 cm longis, acuminatis, basi 

 acutis ad obtusis, margine irregulariter distanter serratis, den- 

 tibus obtusis, nervis utrinque circiter 6, distinctis ; inflorescentiis 

 usque ad 18 cm longis, multifloris, floribus circiter 14 mm longis, 

 pedicellis basi breviter connatis. 



A small glabrous tree, the branches terete, brownish or gray- 

 ish. Leaves numerous, ovate to ellptic-ovate, coriaceous, 6 to 

 10 cm long, 3 to 6 cm wide, olivaceous, shining, subequally nar- 

 rowed to the shortly and obtusely acuminate apex and to the 

 acute to obtuse base, rather coarsely and irregularly toothed, 

 the teeth obtuse; lateral nerves about 6 on each side of the 

 midrib, prominent on the lower surface, the primary reticula- 

 tions lax, distinct; petioles very short, scarcely exceeding 2 mm 

 in length. Inflorescence up to 18 cm in length, many flowered, 

 mostly lateral, solitary or sometimes in pairs. Flowers green 

 and white, slender, in pairs, about 14 mm long, base and apex 



