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Bur. 14758, 14748 Darling: Province of Ilocos Norte, Cuming 1250: Prov- 
ince of Ilocos Sur, Cuming 1128: Province of Nueva Vizcaya, For. Bur. 
15844 Curran & Merritt: Benguet Subprovince, Elmer 6428: Province of 
Pangasinan, For. Bur. 8876 Curran & Merritt: Province of Zambales, Bur. 
Sci. 5042 Ramos, Merrill 2916: Province of Rizal, For. Bur. 1898 Ahern’s 
collector: Province of Tayabas (Principe), Merrill 1018. 
This species appears to be common and widely distributed in northern 
Luzon. The specimens cited above show considerable variation but are 
all apparently referable to a single species. Presl’s description was based 
on at least two specimens, one in flower, and one in fruit. The type in the 
herbarium of the Museum des Kénigreichs Béhmen at Prague, consists of a 
fruiting and a flowering specimen mounted on the same sheet, and is, at 
least in part, identical with the later Xylosma cumingii Clos. The earliest 
name is here adopted. 
XYLOSMA SULUENSIS sp. nov. 
Frutex glaber circiter 5 m altus; ramulis pallidis, foliis oblongo- 
ovatis vel oblongo-lanceolatis, chartaceis, nitidis, basi acutis, 
apice acuminatis, margine integris, usque ad 18 cm longis; race- 
mis axillaribus, solitariis, glabris, quam petiolo paullo longiori- 
bus, paucifloris; fructibus globosis, 6 ad 8 mm diametro. 
A glabrous shrub about 5 m high, the branches and branchlets 
slender, terete, very pale, with few, scattered lenticels. Leaves 
oblong-ovate to oblong-lanceolate, entire, 9 to 18 cm long, 3.5 to 
6 cm wide, chartaceous, shining and of about the same color on 
both surfaces, when dry brownish-olivaceous, the base acute, the 
apex acuminate, gradually narrowed upward from below the 
middle, the base often with one or two small glands on the 
margins near the insertion of the petiole; lateral nerves slender, 
ascending, about 10 on each side of the midrib; petioles 8 to 10 
mm long. Racemes axillary, solitary, glabrous, 2 cm long or 
less, few-flowered. Flowers unknown. Fruits usually about 
five to each raceme, globose, 6 to 8 mm in diameter, crustaceous 
when dry, smooth, crowned by the very short style, their pedicels 
3 to 4 mm long, the subtending bracteoles ovate-lanceolate, 1.5 
mm long or less. Seeds 4, black, concave, about 4 mm wide. 
UBIAN ISLAND, Sulu Archipelago, Merrill 5398, October 12, 1906, in 
thickets back of the beach. 
A species well characterized by its entire leaves with are considerably 
larger than are those of our other species, Xylosma luzonensis (Presl) 
Merr. 
FLACOURTIA Commerson 
FLACOURTIA EUPHLEBIA sp. nov. 
Frutex spinosus circiter 4 mm altus subtus foliis ad nervos 
dense pubescentibus; foliis oblongis, subcoriaceis, usque ad 18 
cm longis, basi acutis vel rotundatis, apice breviter acuminatis, 
margine distincte crenato-serratis; nervis utrinque circiter 10, 
