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The specimen on which the species was based was collected by Vidal, and 

 although no number is cited by F.-Villar in the original description, it is 

 Vidal 2134, which is represented by a duplicate in the Kew Herbarium. 

 It is very curious that the species should have been described as a 

 Calophyllum, with which genus it has little in common except that the 

 venation of the leaves is somewhat suggestive of that genus. 



This species is manifestly closely allied to the preceding, but apparently 

 has larger leaves. Moreover, the leaves are retuse at the apex, not coarsely 

 apiculate, and are dull and pale when dry, not uniformly brown and 

 shining, while the nerves are distinctly more prominent. In the first 

 supplement to Index Kewensis Calophyllum vidalii is listed but the au- 

 thority for the species is erroneously given as Ceron, and the place of 

 publication erroneously as VidaFs "Revision de plantas vasculares de 

 Filipinas," a work that appeared in 1886, not in 1892. The latter is the 

 date of publication of Ceron's "Catalogo de las plantas del herbario" in 

 which the original description and plate appear. 



GUTTIFERAE 



GARCINIA Linnaeus 

 GARCINIA MICROPHYLLA sp. nov. § Mangostana. 



Arbor glabra, 6 ad 8 m alta, ramis teretibus, ramulis tenuibus 

 obscure angulatis, internodis brevibus; foliis numerosis, con- 

 fertis, oblongo-ellipticis, coriaceis, usque ad 4 cm longis, utrinque 

 subaequaliter angustatis, basi acutis, apice breviter rostrato- 

 acuminatis, margine revolutis, nervis tenuibus, numerosis ; cymis 

 solitariis vel binis, axillaribus, 2-floris; floribus 4-meris; stami- 

 nibus in phalangibus stipitatis dense conf ertis ; f ructibus globosis, 

 1 ad 2 cm diametro, seminibus 1 vel 2. 



A small glabrous tree 6 to 8 m high, the branches slender, 

 terete, the branehlets obscurely 4-angled, the internodes short. 

 Leaves very numerous, crowded, oblong-elliptic, 3 to 4 cm long, 

 1 to 2 cm wide, coriaceous, brownish and somewhat shining' when 

 dry, subequally narrowed to the acute base and to the shortly 

 rostrate-acuminate apex, the acumen blunt, margins recurved; 

 lateral nerves very numerous, slender, densely arranged, not 

 prominent; petioles 2 to 3 mm long. Flowers 4-merous, small, 

 on the branehlets below the leaves, solitary or in short, 2-flowered 

 cymes, the peduncles short, the whole inflorescence not exceeding 

 5 mm in length. Outer 2 sepals reniform-ovate, about 1 mm 

 long, the inner two subelliptic, concave, about 4 mm long. Petals 

 4, as long as the inner sepals, elliptic, rounded. Stamens num- 

 erous, arranged on four phalanges, the phalanges, 3.5 mm long, 

 the lower 1 mm without anthers, otherwise with scattered sessile 

 anthers on all parts. Rudimentary style 2 mm long, the stigma 

 discoid or depressed-globose, about 1.2 mm in diameter. Fruit 

 globose, 1 to 2 cm in diameter, brown when dry, the pericarp 



