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bracts, the apical 1 cm usually thickened, brown, marked with 
numerous scars of fallen bracts or bracteoles and pedicels, in 
fruit each bearing 1 to 2, slender, jointed pedicels 3 to 4 cm in 
length. Fruits ovoid, about 6 mm. in diameter, with distinct 
but shallow longitudinal grooves, the persistent sepals 5, ovate- 
lanceolate, acuminate, about 1 mm long. 
ALABAT, Merrill 10478 (type), December 24, 1916, on forested ridges, 
altitude about 75 meters. Luzon, Tayabas Province, Mauban, Bur. Sci. 
19480 Ramos, January 25, 1913, on forested slopes: Laguna Province, Mount 
Bucol back of Santa Maria Mavitac, For. Bur. 8897 Curran (sterile), Feb- 
ruary, 1908. . 
A most characteristic species not at all closely allied to any other known 
form, readily recognizable by its greatly elongated, very narrow, distantly 
but conspicuously serrate leaves. It is apparently very local. On Alabat 
Island but a few individuals were observed, and these all confined to a 
small area. : : 
DISCOCALYX EUPHLEBIA sp. nov. 7 
_ Frutex 3 ad 4 m altus, glaber, ramulis circiter 1 cm diametro; 
foliis ellipticis ad oblongo-ellipticis, in siccitate brunneis, nitidis, 
usque ad 40 cm longis, breviter acuminatis, basi plus minusve 
acuminatis, margine distincte dentatis vel crenato-dentatis, ner- 
vis utrinque circiter 20, supra impressis, subtus valde prominent- 
ibus, utrinque maculis nigris conspicuis instructis; paniculis ¢ 
usque ad 15 em longis, e ramulis specialibus circiter 10 cm longis 
extra-axillaribus supra valde incrassatis cicatricibus multis in-~ 
structis; floribus 5-meris, prominente glandulosis, circiter 2.5 
mm diametro. 
A glabrous dioecious shrub 3 to 4 m high, the ultimate branches 
terete, about 1 cm thick, with few, very large scars of fallen 
petioles. Leaves brown and shining when dry, elliptic to oblong- 
elliptic, 35 to 40 cm long, 10 to 13 wide, both surfaces with 
conspicuous, nearly black, gland-like areas, usually one in each ~ 
ultimate reticulation, subcoriaceous, the apex shortly acuminate, 
base somewhat acuminate, the margins, except in the lower part, 
with distinct dentate or dentate-crenate teeth; lateral nerves 
about 20 on each side of the midrib, impressed on the upper 
surface, very prominent beneath, the reticulations distinct; pe- 
tioles 4 to 5 cm long. Staminate panicles up to 15 cm long, 
usually 6 to 8 at the apex of the specialized branch bearing them, 
these specialized branches up to 10 cm long, the upper 2.5 to 4 
em cylindric, thicker than the peduncular portions, 5 to 7 mm in 
diameter, and marked with numerous scars of fallen bracts and 
peduncles, the specialized branches extra-axillary; rachis and 
branches of the panicles slender. Flowers very shortly pedicel- 
