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upper; lateral nerves 9 to 11 on each side of the midrib, rather 

 distant, distinct, curved upward, faintly anastomosing, the reti- 

 culations lax, slender, not prominent; petioles 1 to 1.5 cm long. 

 Infructescence from the axils of fallen leaves on the branches 

 below the leaves, slender, sparingly branched, up to 20 cm long. 

 Fruits few, oblong-ovoid or narrowly oblong-ovoid, 4 cm long, 

 2 cm in diameter in the lower part, narrowed upward to the 

 blunt apex, the base somewhat rounded and produced slightly 

 as a short stout pseudostalk. Pericarp thickly coriaceous, about 

 1.5 mm thick when dry, the lines of dehiscence evident. Aril 

 not at all laciniate. 



Luzon, Tayabas Province, Mount Pular, Phil. Pi. 1393 Ramos, Jan. 17, 

 1913, in forests. 



A species in vegetative characters somewhat resembling Horsfieldia mer- 

 rillii Warb., well characterized, however, by its peculiarly shaped, oblong- 

 ovoid fruits which are gradually narrowed upward to the blunt apex. 



KNEMA Loureiro 



KNEMA PARVI FOLIA sp. nov. 



Arbor circiter 15 m alta, partibus junioribus inflorescentiisque 

 f errugineo-puberulis ; foliis chartaceis, oblongis, eLiptico- 

 oblongis vel oblongo-lanceolatis, supra nitidis, subtus pallidiori- 

 bus, acuminatis, basi acutis, 5 ad 10 cm longis, nervis utrinque 

 9 ad 13, subtus perspicuis; floribus $ parvis, vix 3 mm 

 longis, paucis, e tuberculis axillaribus vel e axillis defoliatis, 

 disco stamineo glabro, margine antheris 8 vel 9 breviter stipi- 

 tatis coronato. 



A tree about 15 m high, the trunk reaching a diameter of 

 35 cm. Branches dark-brown, terete, striate when dry, some- 

 what shining, glabrous, the slender branchlets minutely and 

 densely ferruginous-puberulent as are the petioles and inflores- 

 cences. Leaves chartaceous, oblong, elliptic-oblong, or oblong- 

 lanceolate, entire, 5 to 10 cm long, 1.8 to 2.8 cm wide, the upper 

 surface shining, glabrous, the lower pale when dry, dull, with 

 scattered, small, brown, sublepidote, glandular dots, especially 

 on the midrib and nerves, the base acute, the apex acuminate, 

 acumen rather short, blunt; primary nerves 9 to 13 on each 

 side of the midrib, prominent beneath, anastomosing, the second- 

 ary nerves and reticulations rather close, fine; petioles 6 to 9 

 mm long. Staminate flowers on short, pubescent, rather stout 

 tubercles, these tubercles about 4 mm long, marked with scars 

 of fallen pedicels, each bearing from 2 to 5 long-pedicelled flow- 

 ers, the tubercles solitary in the axils of leaves or of fallen 

 leaves; pedicels slender, rusty-puberulent, 8 to 10 mm long, with 



