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The Philippine Journal of Science 



1916 



apex shortly acuminate, base narrowed, acute or somewhat 

 decurrent; lateral nerves 12 to 14 on each side of the midrib, 

 very prominent on the lower surface, slightly curved, obscurely 

 anastomosing near the margin, the reticulations distinct ; petioles 

 2 to 3 cm long, pubescent. Flowers on the branches below the 

 leaves, fascicled, in young fruit the pedicels rather stout, ap- 

 pressed pale- or ferruginous-pubescent, about 8 mm long. Sepals 

 suborbicular, coriaceous, rounded, about 5 mm in diameter. Im- 

 mature fruits glabrous, wrinkled, shining, dark-colored when 

 dry, subglobose to ellipsoid or obovoid, at least 2 cm in length, 

 apparently soft and fleshy. 



Luzon, Province of Sorsogon, Mount Lalao, Bur. Sci. 23^15 Ramos, 

 August 10, 1915, in forests near the summit of the mountain. 



Quite different from the other known Philippine species, well charac- 

 terized by its rather large leaves which are densely appressed-pubescent 

 beneath with ferruginous-golden hairs. It may be as closely allied to 

 Sideroxylon foxworthyi Elm. as to any other species, but its indumentum 

 is entirely different in color and in character from that of the latter 

 Bpecies. 



EBENACEAE 



DIOSPYROS Linnaeus 

 DIOSPYROS ULO sp. nov. 



Arbor circiter 15 m alta, glabra vel subglabra, ramis ramulis- 

 que tenuibus teretibus ; foliis chartaceis, oblongis, pallidis, usque 

 ad 12 cm longis, utrinque subaequaliter angustatis, acuminatis, 

 basi acutis, nervis utrinque 6 vel 7, tenuibus ; fructibus globosis, 

 in siccitate crustaceis, circiter 5 cm diametro, extus leviter ad- 

 presse pubescentibus, calycis persistentibus, circiter 1.5 cm 

 diametro; seminibus 8, brunneis, 2.5 cm longis, albumine 

 aequabile. 



A tree about 15 m high, glabrous or nearly so (flowers not 

 seen), the branches and branchlets slender, terete, light-gray. 

 Leaves chartaceous, rather pale when dry, slightly shining, 

 oblong, 7 to 12 cm long, 2.5 to 4.5 cm wide, subequally narrowed 

 to the acute base and to the acuminate apex, eglandular ; lateral 

 nerves 6 or 7 on each side of the midrib, slender, anastomosing, 

 the reticulations slender, lax; petioles 3 to 4 mm long. Fruits 

 globose, about 5 cm in diameter, 8-celled, 8-seeded, black when 

 dry, pericarp crustaceous, with subpersistent scattered, ap- 

 pressed, short, grayish hairs. Seeds about 2.5 cm long, brown, 

 triangular in cross section, the albumen uniform, very hard. 



Luzon, Province of Cagayan, Luzon, Lal-lo, For. Bur. 23243 Barros, 

 July 21, 1914, in forests at an altitude of about 30 meters; locally known 

 as ulo. 



