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4. DISCOCALYX Mez. 



I. D. cybianthoides (A. DC.) Mez, I. c. 213. 



(S7 45 Merrill) January; (2416, 2816 M eyer) January, March; (213 Whitford) 

 .May: (139, 341 Barnes) January, February; (6836 Elmer) November; (1848, 



2085, 2392, 2407 Borden) July to January. In forests and on ridges 400 to 

 1,000 ni. Endemic. 



2. D. sp. ( ?) 



(388.1 Merrill) August. Ill forests, ravines at 800 m., material very imperfect. 



5. EMBELIA Burm. 



1. E. bataanensis Merr. Govt. Lab. Publ. 29 (1905) 44. 



(2832 Meyer) March; (3207 Merrill) October; (1114 Whitford) February; 

 (1349 Borden) July; (6893 Elmer) November. In the mossy forest, exposed 

 ridges, 600 to l.ooo m. Endemic. 



2. Embelia whitfordii Merrill, sp. now S Euembelia, 



A scandent shrub, glabrous except the inflorescence. Branches dark brown 

 or nearly black when dry. Leaves eoriaeeous, elliptical ovate, narrowed at both 

 ends, the base acute, the apex blunt. 7 to 9 cm. long, 2.5 to 4 cm. wide, slightly 

 shining on both surfaces, entire, glabrous; nerves numerous, not prominent, the 

 primary scarcely more prominent than the secondary ones and the reticulations: 

 petioles about 1 cm. long. Panicles terminal, pyramidal, 12 to 15 cm. long. 

 ti to 8 cm. in diameter, many flowered, the primary branches >p'readiiig-ascending. 

 the lower ones often 7 cm. long, the upper gradually shorter, the rhaehis. branches, 

 and branchlets minutely but densely ferruginous or cinereous puberulent. the 

 rhachis becoming nearly glabrous. Flowers 1.5 to 1.7 mm. long, their pedicels 

 0.8 mm. long or less, papillose-puberulent. about as long as the narrowly ovate, 

 acute, more or less puberulent bracteole, the margins of the bracteoles minutely 

 papillose ciliate. Calyx 5-parted. the glandular punctate lobes narrowly ovate. 

 acute 0.3 to 0.4 nun. long, minutely puberulent outside but the margins glabrous. 

 Petals 5. free, ovate-lanceolate, acute, punctate with few large glands. 1.5 to 

 1.7 mm. long. 0.8 nun. wide. Stamens 5; filaments 0.8 mm. long; anthers 

 0.3 mm. long. Fruit subglobose, glabrous, about 2 nun. in diameter with 

 numerous prominent glands, tipped with the persistent style. 



(453, 1038 Whitford) July. June. On exposed ridges in the mossy forest at 

 about 1,000 m. 



6. RAPANEA Aubl. 



1. R. philippinensis (A. DC) Me/. I. c. 304. 



13054 Merrill) .March; (3114 Meyer) May. On exposed ridges in the mossy 

 forest 1.000 to 1.200 in. Endemic. 



EBENALES. 

 SAPOTACEwE. 



1. ILLIPE Kcenig. 



1. I. ramiflora Merr. Govt. Lab. Publ. 17 (1004) 42. 



(18!), 583 Barnes) January. March. In forests at about 100 m. Endemic. 

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