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the reticulations very lax; petioles 4 to 5 mm long. Cymes 
axillary, peduncled, dichotomous, few-flowered, 4 to 6 cm long. 
Flowers 4-merous, 7 to 8 mm in diameter, their pedicels 1 to 2 
mm ‘long, the bracteoles 1 mm long or less. Sepals orbicular, 
rounded, about 1 mm long. Petals orbicular-reniform, entire, 
- more or less recurved, about 3 mm lorig and 4mm wide. Ovules 
1ineach cell. Fruit, slightly immature, ovoid, about 8 mm long, 
4-valved, by abortion 1-celled, 1-seeded, the seed broadly ellip- 
soid, 6 to 7 mm long, the aril less than one-half as long as the 
seed. 
Luzon, Ilocos Norte Province, Bangui, Bur. Sci. 27546 Ramos, February 
20, 1917, on slopes in thickets at low altitudes. 
In vegetative characters this species somewhat resembles. a small-leaved 
form of Huonymus viburnifolius Merr. It is well characterized by its 
broadly elliptic to obovate leaves which are often glaucous when dry. It 
is not closely allied to any other known form of the genus. 
GLYPTOPETALUM GLANDULOSUM sp. nov. 
Frutex glaber 3 ad 4 m altus, ramis teretibus, purpureo- 
brunneis, ramulis concoloribus, tenuibus, sulcatis vel 4-angulatis; 
foliis subtus prominente brunneo-glandulosis, chartaceis vel 
subcoriaceis, oblongis, usque ad 7 cm longis, obtuse acuminatis, 
basi acutis, margine distanter crenulato-denticulatis, nervis 
utrinque 4 vel 5, tenuibus, perspicuis, anastomosantibus; in- 
florescentiis axillaribus, cymosis vel subumbellatis, paucifloris, | 
usque ad 1.5 cm longis vel interdum floribus solitariis; floribus | 
tenuiter pedicellatis, 4-meris, 4 ad 5 mm diametro, petalis obo- 
vatis. 
A glabrous erect shrub 3 to 4m high. Branches brownish- 
purple, terete, smooth, the branchlets of the same color, slender, 
sulcate or 4-angled, the ultimate ones about 1 mm in diameter. 
Leaves oblong, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, 5 to 7 cm long, 
1.6 to 3 cm wide, subolivaceous, slightly shining and of about 
the same color on both surfaces when dry, narrowed above to 
the blunt-acuminate apex, the base acute, margins distantly 
crenate-denticulate, the lower surface with numerous, rather 
prominent, dark-brown glands; lateral nerves 4 or 5 on each side 
of the midrib, slender, distinct, arched-anastomosing, the reti- 
‘culations very lax; petioles 5 to 7 mm long. Inflorescences 
cymose or subumbellate, few-flowered, axillary, 1.5 cm long or 
less, sometimes the flowers solitary. Flowers pale straw-color, 
4-merous, 4 to 5 mm in diameter, their pedicels slender, 5 to 6 mm 
long. Outer two sepals reniform, rounded, about 1 mm long and 
1.5 mm wide, the inner two distinctly larger. Petals obovate, 
