xi, c, i Merrill: Plants from Sorsogon Province, Luzon 29 



persistentibus ; fructibus supra basin bracteolis minutis 

 instructis. 



A glabrous, apparently scandent shrub, the branches slender, 

 terete, brown, rather smooth. Leaves oblong, firmly chartaceous 

 to subcoriaceous, oblong, 5 to 7 cm long, 2 to 3 cm wide, slightly 

 shining when dry, the upper surface olivaceous, the lower brown, 

 apex shortly and obscurely blunt acuminate, base rounded, 

 margins obscurely undulate and distantly and minutely den- 

 ticulate; lateral nerves about 4 on each side of the midrib, 

 slender, obscure; petioles slender, about 1.5 cm long. Inflores- 

 cence axillary, 2.4 to 4 cm long, sometimes a simple raceme, more 

 often with one or two short branches from the lower part form- 

 ing a depauperate panicle. Pedicels about 1.5 mm long, the 

 subtending bracts ovate-lanceolate, acute, about 1 mm long. 

 Fruit narrowly ovoid, brown, about 3 mm long, supplied above 

 the base with a pair of small, ovate, persistent bracteoles about 

 0.5 mm long. Sepals broadly ovate, entirely glabrous, not at 

 all punctate, rounded or obtuse, broadly ovate, about 1 mm 

 long. 



Luzon, Province of Sorsogon, Mount Pocdal, Bur. Sci. 23358 Ramos, 

 August 5, 1915, in forests near the summit. 



The alliance of this species is manifestly with the widely distributed and 

 somewhat variable Maesa denticulata Mez, from which it can at once be 

 distinguished by its smaller, much narrower, differently shaped leaves, 

 which are obscurely undulate and denticulate and brownish beneath when 

 dry, and its shorter inflorescences. 



SAPOTACEAE 

 SIDEROXYLON Linnaeus 

 SIDEROXYLON SARCOCARPUM sp. nov. 



Arbor, alta, ramulis subtus f oliisque dense adpresse f errugineo- 

 chryseo-pubescentibus ; f oliis oblongis vel elliptico-oblongis, usque 

 ad 23 cm longis, subcoriaceis, acuminatis, basi acutis vel decur- 

 rentibus, utrinque nitidis, in siccitate pallidis, nervis utrinque 

 12 ad 14, subtus valde prominentibus ; floribus lateralibus, f asci- 

 culatis; fructibus carnosis, glabris, ellipsoideis vel obovoideis, 

 junioribus circiter 2 cm longis. 



A tall tree, the leaves beneath prominently and densely 

 pubescent with short, appressed, golden-ferruginous hairs. 

 Branches grayish, rather stout, glabrous, the younger parts 

 densely appressed ferruginous-pubescent, the very young leaves 

 densely ferruginous-pubescent throughout. Leaves oblong to 

 oblong-elliptic, subcoriaceous, rather pale when dry, 12 to 23 

 cm long, 4 to 9 cm wide, the upper surface entirely glabrous, 



