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The Philippine Journal of Science 



1916 



Luzon, Province of Sorsogon, Mount Pocdal, Bur. Set 23467 Ramos, 

 July 29, 1915, in damp forests near the base of the mountain. 



A species strongly resembling Boerlagiodendron luzoniense Merr., but 

 differing radically in the details of its inflorescence which is nearly 

 glabrous, not densely paleaceous, the peduncles of the lateral heads longer 

 and ebracteate. 



DIPLYCOSIA Blume 



DIPLYCOSIA LUC1DA sp. nov. 



Frutex scandens glaber, ramis ramulisque teretibus; foliis 

 ellipticis, coriaceis, nitidis, usque ad 7 cm longis, apice obtusis 

 vel rotundatis, basi acutis, margine revolutis, integris, nervis 

 utrinque 2 vel 3, adscendentibus, distinctis; floribus axillaribus, 

 binis, longe pedicellatis ; f ructibus obovoideis, in siccitate circiter 

 5 mm longis. 



An entirely glabrous scandent shrub, the branches and branch- 

 lets slender, terete, pale or brownish, smooth. Leaves coriaceous, 

 shining, elliptic, 5 to 7 cm long, 2.5 to 3.5 cm wide, the apex 

 rounded or obtuse, base acute, margins entire, revolute; lateral 

 nerves 2 or 3 on each side of the midrib, rather prominent, 

 ascending, the reticulations lax; petioles about 7 mm long. 

 Flowers in axillary pairs, their pedicels slender, about 1.5 cm 

 long. Corolla glabrous, cylindric, about 3 mm long, the lobes 5, 

 broadly ovate, 0.5 mm long. Stamens 10, the filaments 1.7 mm 

 long, slightly pubescent ; anthers about 1 mm long. Fruit black 

 when dry, obovoid, about 5 mm long, the persistent calyx teeth 

 broad, short, apiculate. 



Luzon, Province of Sorsogon, Mount Kililibong, Bur. Sci. 23504 Ramos, 

 August 17, 1915, on trees at the summit, apparently at an altitude of about 

 1,000 meters. 



A species well characterized by being entirely glabrous, by its obtuse 

 or rounded leaves with revolute margins, and by its axillary pairs of long- 

 pedicelled flowers. It somewhat resembles Diplycosia baclayanensis Elm., 

 but differs in its leaf characters and in its long pedicels. 



MYRSINACEAE 



MAESA Forskal 

 MAES A LONGIPETIOLATA sp. nov. § Eumaesa. 



Frutex scandens vel suberectus, glaber, ramis ramulisque sub- 

 teretibus, brunneis; foliis oblongis, chartaceis ad subcoriaceis, 

 in siccitate supra olivaceis, subtus brunneis, usque ad 7 cm 

 longis, apice breviter obscure acuminatis, basi rotundatis, 

 margine obscure undulatis, obscurissime distanter denticulatis, 

 nervis utrinque circiter 4, tenuibus, obscuris, petiolo -1.5 cm 

 longo ; inflorescentiis axillaribus, 2.5 ad 4 cm longis, depauperato- 

 paniculatis, sepalis haud lineatis, glabris, late ovatis, obtusis, 



