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a small, deciduous, oblong, obtuse, 1 mm long bracteole at the 

 upper one-fourth or one-third. Staminate flowers small, not 

 exceeding 3 mm in length, the buds ferruginous-puberulent out- 

 side, glabrous within, subglobose or somewhat 3-angled, 3-, 

 rarely 4-merous, the calyx-segments thick, ovate, 3 mm long or 

 less, acute. Staminal-disk stipitate, glabrous, the stipe less than 

 1 mm long, bearing on the margins of the disk 8 or 9, radiately 

 disposed, 0.5 mm long anthers. Pistillate flowers and fruits 

 unknown. 



Luzon, Albay Province, Manito, For. Bur. 10573 Curran, June, 1908, on 

 forested ridges, altitude about 30 meters. 



A species apparently not closely allied to the other Philippine represent- 

 atives of the genus, well characterized by its unusually small staminate 

 flowers and by its small leaves. 



KNEMA ALVAREZII sp. nov. 



Arbor 12 ad 15 m alta, partibus junioribus fructibusque 

 densissime f errugineo-tomentosis ; foliis lanceolatis vel oblongo- 

 lanceolatis, 8 ad 12 cm longis, coriaceis, acuminatis, basi acutis 

 vel obtusis, supra glabris, nitidis, subtus pallidis, nervis utrin- 

 que 12 ad 15; floribus $ axillaribus, parvis, 3-meris, extus 

 densissime ferrugineo-tomentosis, disco stamineo glabro, brevi- 

 ter stipitato, staminibus 6; fructibus junioribus ellipsoideis, 1.5 

 ad 2 cm longis, dense ferrugineo-tomentosis. 



A tree 12 to 15 m high, the young branchlets and leaves very 

 densely ferruginous-tomentose as are the buds and young fruits. 

 Branches grayish-brown, striate, glabrous. Leaves lanceolate 

 to oblong-lanceolate, coriaceous, 8 to 12 cm long, 2 to 3 cm wide, 

 entire, rather slenderly acuminate, base acute or obtuse, the 

 upper surface glabrous, shining, the lower surface pale, puberu- 

 lent, ultimately becoming nearly glabrous; petioles when young 

 ferruginous-tomentose, later puberulent, 8 to 15 mm long; 

 nerves 12 to 15 on each side of the midrib, prominent, anasto- 

 mosing, the reticulations not prominent. Male flowers on short, 

 axillary, solitary tubercles, the whole inflorescence ferruginous- 

 tomentose, 1 cm long or less. Pedicels short. Flowers crowded, 

 in bud globose or ovoid, the perianth-segments 3, ovate, about 

 3 mm long, the bracteoles ovate, deciduous, 2 mm long. Stam- 

 inal-disk shortly stipitate, glabrous, bearing on the margins 6 

 radiately spreading anthers about 0.5 mm long. Fruit (imma- 

 ture) ellipsoid, 1.5 to 2 cm long, densely ferruginous-tomentose. 



Luzon, Nueva Ecija Province, Mount Macasandal, For Bur 22395 

 22397 Alvarez, February 10, 1911, in forests, altitude about 850 meters 



A species manifestly allied to Knema heterophylla Warb., differing in 

 its smaller, fewer-nerved, apparently always entire leaves, the younger 



