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plus minusve confertis, coriaceis, oblongo-oblanceolatis vel an- 
guste oblongo-ovatis, integris, usque ad 18 cm longis, in siccitate 
brunneis, nitidis, acutis vel leviter acuminatis, basi acutis; in- 
florescentiis e ramis specialibus, paniculis 4 confertis, junioribus 
circiter 4 cm longis bracteis glandulosis membranaceis usque ad 
2 cm longis ovato-ellipticis deciduis involucratis; floribus parvis, 
4- vel 5-meris, glandulosis. 
A dioecious glabrous shrub about 5 m high, the branches and 
branchlets terete, brown, the latter usually about 5 mm in diam- 
eter, usually with numerous close scars marking the limits of 
the past seasons growth, the leaves numerous, rather crowded. 
Leaves rather thickly coriaceous, ‘entire, pale-brownish, shining 
and of the same color on both surfaces when dry, not glandular 
but beneath very obscurely puncticulate, oblong-oblanceolate to 
narrowly oblong-obovate, apex acute or somewhat acuminate, 
narrowed from the upper one-half to two-thirds to the cuneate 
base; primary lateral nerves about 8 on each side of the midrib, 
irregular, ascending, scarcely more prominent than are the se- 
condary nerves and reticulations; petioles stout, 4 to 5 cm long. 
Staminate panicles on specialized extra-axillary branches, these 
branches 4 to 8 cm long, rather stout, the upper 0.5 to 2 cm 
thickened, cylindric, marked with numerous scars of fallen bracts, 
the bracts subtending and enclosing the young panicles brown 
when dry, membranaceous, prominently glandular, ovate-elliptic, 
obtuse or rounded, deciduous. Panicles crowded at the apices 
of the specialized branches, up to 4 cm long, probably longer 
when mature. Flowers numerous, small, in bud globose, 4- or 
5-merous, both calyx and corolla prominently glandular. 
Luzon, Tayabas Province, Mount Cadig, Bur. Sci. 20729, 20766, 20830 
Escritor, March, 19138, the last two numbers erroneously localized on the 
herbarium labels as Guinayangan. 
A species well characterized by its numerous, thickly coriaceous, entire, 
shining leaves; and its rather dense panicles, which are crowded at the 
apices of the specialized branches and subtended by large, membranaceous, 
glandular bracts, these forming an involucre at the apex of the branch 
below the panicles. On two of the specimens cited above there are one or 
two greatly reduced, 8 to 5 em long, coriaceous leaves on the specialized 
branches, as is the case with a few other species of the genus. 
DISCOCALYX SAMARENSIS sp. nov. 
Frutex dioicus, glaber, circiter 5 m altus; foliis numerosis, 
pseudoverticillatis, oblanceolatis, integris, usque ad 14 cm longis, 
in siccitate pallidis, subcoriaceis, margine leviter revolutis, acutis 
vel obscure acuminatis, deorsum sensim angustatis, nervis utrin- 
que circiter 12, tenuibus, adscendentibus; paniculis ¢ axillaribus, 
