xvc,4 Merrill: New Plants from Samar 199 



rather distinct. Staminate flowers numerous, their pedicels 2 

 to 3 mm long, axillary, fascicled. Sepals 2 mm long, ovate, 

 rounded. Petals subcoriaceous, oblong-elliptic, rounded, 4 mm 

 long. Anthers about 25, oblong-obovoid, 0.6 mm long, crowded 

 on the flat receptacle. Rudimentary ovary none. Pistillate 

 flowers axillary and terminal, solitary or fascicled, sometimes 

 on a short peduncle, their pedicels 2 to 3 mm long. Sepals broadly 

 orbicular-ovate to subreniform, rounded, 1.5 mm long. Ovary 

 depressed-globose, 5-celled. Rudimentary stamens about 12, their 

 filaments free or nearly so, flattened, 1 mm long. Stigma ob- 

 scurely 5-lobed, rounded, about 2 mm in diameter, prominently 

 papillate. Fruit immature, apparently globose, fleshy, black when 

 dry, 1.5 cm in diameter or more. 



Samar, Catubig River (Palapag) Bur. Sci. 24279 Ramos (type), March 

 12, 1916, Sablaya 59. Biliran, Bur. Sci. 185.51 McGregor, June, 1914, in 

 forests, altitude about 300 meters. 



The alliance of this species appears to be with Garcinia nigro-lineata 

 Planch., from which, however, it is distinguished by numerous characters, 

 notably in its much fewer lateral nerves. 



FLACOURTIACEAE 



HOMALIUM Jacquin 

 HOMALIUM SAMARENSE sp. nov. § Myriantheia. 



Arbor circiter 10 m alta, inflorescentiis prominente ciliatis 

 exceptis glabra; foliis ellipticis vel oblongo-ellipticis, usque ad 

 10 cm longis, coriaceis vel subcoriaceis, in siccitate nitidis, 

 brunneis vel olivaceo-brunneis, basi acutis ad subrotundatis, 

 apice breviter acute acuminatis, margine distanter crenato-ser- 

 ratis, dentibus subtus glandulosis, nervis utrinque circiter 6, 

 subtus prominentibus ; inflorescentiis terminalibus, ramis paucis, 

 elongatis, valde ciliatis; floribus 6-meris, sepalis linearis, 4 ad 

 5 mm longis; petalis anguste spatulatis, sepalis aequantibus, 

 ciliatis ; staminibus 18. 



A tree about 10 m high, glabrous except the prominently ciliate 

 inflorescence. Branches terete, slender, lenticellate, brownish- 

 gray. Leaves mostly brown when dry or the upper surface 

 brownish-olivaceous, shining, coriaceous or subcoriaceous, elliptic 

 to oblong-elliptic, 7 to 10 cm long, 3.5 to 5 cm wide, base 

 rounded to acute, apex shortly acute-acuminate, margins dis- 

 tantly crenate-serrate, each tooth with a gland on the lower 

 surface; lateral nerves about 6 on each side of the midrib, 

 prominent, anastomosing, the reticulations distinct; petioles 5 

 to 8 mm long. Racemes terminal, sometimes solitary, some- 

 times arranged in a depauperate panicle supplied with reduced 



