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cent, otherwise glabrous. Branches pale-brownish, smooth, te- 
rete, the branchlets somewhat angled or compressed. when dry. 
Leaves oblong, chartaceous, subolivaceous or brownish when dry, 
shining, the lower surface slightly paler then the upper, 10 to 17 
em long, 2 to 4.5 cm wide, entire, subequally narrowed to the 
acute base and to the slenderly acute-acuminate apex, the lower 
surface minutely brown-puncticulate with scattered glands; lat- 
eral nerves about 15 on each side of the midrib, distinct, anas- 
. tomosing, slightly curved, the ultimate reticulations evident on 
both surfaces; petioles 1 to 1.5 cm long. Infructescences axil- 
lary, solitary, subumbellate, the peduncles about 8 mm long, the 
pedicels crowded toward its tip, sparingly ferruginous-pubescent, 
the pedicels, in friut, about 1 cm long, somewhat thickened up- 
ward. Calyx-lobes ovate, acute, distinctly glandular with red- 
dish glands, about 2 mm long, nearly free, their margins 
minutely ciliate. Fruit globose, glabrous, smooth, about 7 mm 
in diameter, nearly black when mature. 
Luzon, Tayabas Province, Mount Cadig, Bur. Sci. 25453 (type), 25494, 
25389 Yates, December 14, 1916, on forested slopes, altitude 350 to 400 
meters. 
A species manifestly allied to Ardisia philippinensis A. DC. and A. 
disticha A. DC. but distinguished, among other characters, by its smaller, 
narrower, slenderly and sharply acuminate leaves. 
ARDISIA TAYABENSIS sp. nov. § Pyrgus. 
Frutex glaber, circiter 2 m altus; foliis obiok es ian eshais, 
usque ad 10 cm longis, integris, in siccitate brunneis, nitidis, 
utrinque subaequaliter angustatis, acutis vel obscure acuminatis, 
nervis primariis utrinque circiter 12, distinctis; paniculis ter- 
minalibus, sub fructu circiter 9 cm longis; fructibus ovoideis, 
circiter 8 mm longis obscure longitudinaliter striatis, sepalis 
glabris. 
A glabrous shrub about 2 m high, the branches and branchlets 
brown, terete, smooth. Leaves crowded near the apices of the 
branches, subcoriaceous, brown and shining when dry, the lower 
surface slightly paler than the upper, oblong-lanceolate, 7 to 10 
em long, 2 to 2.5 em wide, entire, subequally narrowed to the 
acute or slightly acuminate base and apex, both surfaces gland- 
ular-puncticulate; lateral nerves about 12 on each side of the 
_ midrib, distinct, the secondary nerves and reticulations distinct 
on both surfaces; petioles 8 to 14 mm long. Panicles terminal, 
' in fruit about 9 cm long, the axis stout, the primary branches 
scattered, spreading, 1 to 1.5 cm long, the pedicels thickened up- 
ward, about 7 mm long. Fruits ovoid, about 8 mm long, ob- 
scurely longitudinally striate, brown, shining, the persistent se- 
