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utrinque circiter 6; floribus numerosissimis, axillaribus, fasci- 

 culatis, dense confertis, breviter peiicellatis, circiter 4 mm 

 longis; filamentis 1.5 ad 2 mm longis, glabris, staminoideis li- 

 beris, oblongis, sursum villosis ; ovario pubescente. 



A species closely allied to Casearia cinerea Turcz. and C. 

 grewiaefolia Vent., differing especially in its much fewer nerved 

 leaves. A shrub about 3 m high, the branchlets, lower surface 

 of the leaves and the flowers rather densely and softly pubescent. 

 Branches terete, glabrous, reddish-brown when dry, sparingly 

 wrinkled and lenticellate, the branchlets densely subferruginous- 

 to cinereous-pubescent. Leaves subcoriaceous, ovate to broadly 

 oblong-ovate, 8 to 11 cm long, 4 to 5.5 cm wide, pale-brownish 

 when dry, apex shortly and obtusely acuminate, margins promi- 

 nently crenate, base broadly and obliquely truncate, both sides 

 rounded or one side rounded and the other acute, prominently 

 inequilateral, subfalcate, the upper surface glabrous except the 

 sparingly pubescent midrib, the lower surface softly pubescent 

 especially on the midrib and lateral nerves ; lateral nerves about 

 6 on each side of the midrib, prominent, curved-ascending, ob- 

 scurely anastomosing, the reticulations lax; petioles rather 

 densely pubescent, 3 to 5 mm long. Flowers yellowish, about 

 4 mm long, very numerous, crowded in subglobose, dense, 

 axillary fascicles, 30 to 50 in a fascicle, their pedicels densely 

 pubescent, 3 to 4 mm long. Perianth-segments 5, elliptic-oblong, 

 densely pubescent, obtuse. Stamens 10; filaments 1.5 to 2 mm 

 long, glabrous; anthers oblong-ovate, 1 mm long; staminodes 

 oblong, obtuse, 1.5 mm long, free, glabrous below, villous in the 

 upper one-half. Ovary ovoid, pubescent; style very short; stig- 

 ma capitate. 



Luzon, Ilocos Norte Province, Bangui, Bur. Sci. 27UU2 Ramos, in dry 

 thickets at low altitudes, locally known to the Ilocanos as boyboyoc. 



This species is manifestly very closely allied to Casearia cinerea Turcz., 

 differing especially in its distinctly fewer nerved leaves and its very num- 

 erous, densely crowded flowers. 



HOMALIUM Jacquin 



HOMALIUM MULTfFLORUM sp. nov. § BlackwelUa. 



Species H. loheri affinis, differt foliis minoribus, usque ad 8 

 cm longis, nervis paucioribus, utrinque circiter 6, bracteis oblon- 

 go-ovatis, circiter 2 mm longis. 



A tree about 10 m high, the inflorescence prominently ciliate- 

 pubescent with spreading pale or cinereous hairs, otherwise 

 glabrous. Branches terete, reddish-brown, often somewhat 

 glaucous, obscurely lenticellate. Leaves coriaceous or subcoria- 



