NEW PHILIPPINE MYRTACEAE 
By Etmer D. MERRILL 
Director and Botanist, Bureau of Science, Manila 
The present paper consists of the descriptions of twenty-three 
presumably new species; one ee the remainder in 
the genus Hugenia. 
DECASPERMUM Forster 
DECASPERMUM MICROPHYLLUM sp. nov. 
Frutex, ramulis adpresse pubescens; foliis numerosis, parvis, 
confertis, 8 ad 15 mm longis, ellipticis, obtusis vel acutis; 
floribus axillaribus, solitariis, 8 mm diameter, 2-bracteolatis, 
bracteolis linearis, 3 mm longis; calycis dense adpresse albido- 
pubescens, lobis lanceolatis, acuminatis, 2 mm longis. 
A shrub, the branches glabrous, the branchlets appressed- 
pubescent with white hairs. Leaves numerous, crowded, 
coriaceous, shining, elliptic, 8 to 15 mm long, 5 to 8 mm wide, 
base and apex acute or rounded, the upper surface glabrous, 
minutely pitted; the lower surface punctate-glandular, spar- 
ingly pubescent when young, in age glabrous; petioles very 
short. Flowers axillary, about 8 mm in diameter, their pedicels 
appressed-pubescent, up to 5 mm long, 2-bracteolate at the 
apex, the bracteoles linear, pubescent, about 3 mm _ long. 
Calyx-tube ovoid, about 2 mm in diameter, densely appressed- 
pubescent with white hairs, the lobes lanceolate, acuminate, 
pubescent, about 2 mm long. Petals obovate, about 4 mm long, 
their margins slightly ciliate; when fresh white, when dry 
pinkish. Stamens indefinite, the filaments about 4 mm long. 
Ovary 5-celled, each cell 2-ovuled. 
MINDANAO, Surigao Province, Bur. Sci. 34715 Ramos & 
Pascasio, June 15, 1919, in thickets along streams at low alti- 
tudes at the iron deposit along the northeast coast. 
This remarkably distinct species is well characterized by its 
very small leaves and does not appear to be closely allied to any 
previously described form. 
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