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A tree about 18 m high, the branches and branchlets rather 
slender, terete, dark when dry, the younger ones sparingly pu- 
bescent with short hairs. Leaves chartaceous to subcoriaceous, 
oblong-ovate, dark-olivaceous on both surfaces when dry, the 
lower slightly paler than the upper, 9 to 12 em long, 3 to 5 cm 
wide, base acute to somewhat rounded, gradually narrowed up- 
ward from the lower one-third or one-half to the acuminate 
apex, the acumen blunt; both surfaces, or the lower one only, 
very sparingly appressed-pubescent on the midrib and nerves, 
the ultimate reticulations shallowly foveolate, dense, about 
equally prominent on both surfaces; lateral nerves 3 or 4 on 
each side of the midrib, curved-ascending, slender but distinct; 
petioles somewhat pubescent, about 5 mm long. Panicleés ter- 
minal and axillary, ample, many flowered, up to 14 cm long, the 
branches alternate, spreading or somewhat ascending, the lower 
ones up to 6 cm long. Flowers white, numerous, somewhat 
crowded on the ultimate branchlets, the younger parts of the 
inflorescence and the flowers rather prominently pale-brownish- 
pubescent. Flowers about 4 mm long, the tube cylindric, 
slightly inflated, about 1.8 mm long, the lobes slightly longer 
than the tube, ovate to oblong-ovate, obtuse to subacute, ex- 
ternally pubescent. 
BASILAN, Bur. Sci. 16155 Reillo, August 19, 1912 (type), For. Bur. 18883, 
18844 Miranda, August, 1912, in forests, altitude 20 to 200 meters. 
A species well characterized by its few-nerved leaves and its ample, 
many-flowered panicles; it is quite different from all other species known to ~ 
me. Perhaps two of the specimens cited above are from the small island 
of Malamaui, near Basilan, judging, from the field labels, Bur Sci. 16155 
Reillo and For. Bur. 18883 Miranda were both collected on August 19, and 
both indicated as from Basilan, but the latter bears the additional statement 
“from the forests of Malamaui.” 
CRYPTOCARYA OBLONGATA sp. nov. 
Arbor, partibus junioribus subtus foliisque ad costa nervisque 
minute adpresse ferrugineo-pubescentibus; foliis coriaceis, 
oblongis, usque ad 14 cm longis, apice breviter acuminatis, basi 
cuneatis, supra glabris, laevis, leviter nitidis, olivaceis, subtus 
brunneis et leviter glaucescentibus, nervis utrinque 10 ad 12, 
suberectis, subtus valde prominentibus; paniculis axillaribus, 
brevibus, fructibus anguste ovoideis, nitidis, laevis, glabris, 
circiter 2 cm longis. 
A tree, nearly glabrous (flowers not known). Branches te- 
pore slender, dark reddish-brown when dry, glabrous, the very 
young branchlets pubescent. Leaves oblong, coriaceous, 8 to 
14 cm long, 2 to 4 cm wide, the apex shortly acuminate, base 
