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XI, C, 5 Merrill: New Philippine Shrubs and Trees OTT 
- CELASTRACEAE 
ELAEODENDRON Jacquin 
ELAEODENDRON MINDANAENSE sp. nov. 
Arbor parva, glabra; foliis chartgceis, elliptico-ovatis, inte- 
gris, usque ad 6 cm longis, basi acutis vel acuminatis, apice latis- 
sime breviter obtuse acuminatis, nervis tenuibus, primariis 
utrinque circiter 8, quam secondariis reticulisque vix magis 
prominentioribus; cymis axillaribus, brevibus; fructibus junio- 
ribus circiter 6 mm longis, obovoideis, petalis 5, orbicularis vel 
orbiculari-ovatis, rotundatis, circiter 1 mm longis. 
A small glabrous tree attaining a height of about 10 m, the 
branches and branchlets slender, terete, grayish, or the latter 
somewhat reddish-brown. Leaves opposite, entire, chartaceous, 
pale-olivaceous, somewhat shining when dry, of the same color 
on both surfaces, elliptic-ovate or sometimes rhomboid-ovate, 
3.5 to 6 cm long, 2.5 to 5.5 cm wide, narrowed to the acute or 
slightly acuminate base, the apex with a short, broad, blunt 
acumen; primary lateral nerves about 8 on each side of the 
midrib, slender, anastomosing, scarcely more prominent than 
are the secondary ones and the reticulations; petioles slender, 
3 to 4 mm long. Cymes axillary, solitary, slender, the pedun- 
cles 0.5 to 1 cm long, each usually bearing three fruits, the 
pedicels 2 to 2.5 mm long, somewhat thickened upward. Corolla- 
tube funnel-shaped, about 1 mm long, the sepals very broad, 
short, rounded, somewhat reniform. Petals orbicular to orbi- 
cular-ovate, about 1 mm long. Young fruits obovoid, pale when 
dry, the pericarp rather thin, about 6 mm long. 
MINDANAO, Davao District, Mount Badas, For. Bur. 26243 Ceballos, 
September 30, 1916, near the summit of the mountain, altitude about 650 
meters, 
The first representative of the genus to be found in the Philippines, 
perhaps most closely allied to Elaeodendron glaucum Pers., but with much 
shorter, greatly reduced cymes and smaller, less prominently nerved, entire 
leaves. | 
GLYPTOPETALUM Thwaites 
GLYPTOPETALUM RETICULATUM sp. nov. 
Frutex 4 ad 5 m altus, glaber, ramis teretibus, ramulis com- 
pressis vel indistincte angulatis; foliis coriaceis, in siccitate 
pallidis, oblongis ad oblongo-ovatis, usque ad 15 cm longis, acu- 
minatis, basi subacutis ad obtusis, brevissime petiolatis, utrin- 
que dense reticulatis, nervis primariis circiter 8, margine minute 
glanduloso-denticulatis; infructescentiis axillaribus, peduncula- 
