oa Se a, 
os Merrill: Philippine Plants, X 325 
valde prominentibis, anastomosantibus; fructibus subovoideis, 
circiter 1 cm longis, in siccitate circiter 7-sulcatis. 
A spiny shrub about 4 m high, the younger branchlets, petioles, 
and nerves on the lower surfaces of the leaves more or less 
pubescent. Branches terete, reddish-brown or brown, glabrous, 
lenticellate, the younger ones with solitary or paired, sharp, 
nearly straight, 5 to 10 mm long spines subtending each leaf, or 
the spines often scattered along the branchlet. Leaves oblong, 
subcoriaceous, brownish when dry and of about the same color on 
both surfaces, 12 to 18 cm long, 5 to 8 cm wide, the base acute or 
somewhat rounded, usually with a pair of glands near the in- 
sertion of the petiole, the apex rather abruptly and shortly 
acuminate, margins, except near the base, distinctly crenate- 
serrate, the midrib and lateral nerves on the lower surface, and 
in younger leaves on the upper surface, rather densely brown- 
pubescent; lateral nerves about 10 on each side of the midrib, 
very prominent on the lower surface, straight, looped-anas- 
tomosing near the margin; petioles pubescent, becoming nearly 
glabrous in age, stout, 4 to 12 mm long. Flowers unknown. 
Fruit ovoid, fleshy, edible, acid, about 1 cm long, black, when 
dry, and rather distinctly 7-sulcate. 
MINDANAO, District of Davao, Todaya, Williams 2572, April 4, 1905. 
The specimen has been identified as Flacourtia montana Grah., which 
species, to a certain degree, it resembles. It is, however, entirely different 
in its leaf-venation, and does not agree with any previously described 
species of the genus so far as I am able to determine. It is remarkable 
for its very prominently veined leaves. 
RYPAROSA Blume 
RYPAROSA CAULIFLORA sp. nov. 
Species R. longipedunculatae Boerl. similis et ut videtur affinis, 
differt foliis majoribus, usque ad 35 cm longis, late oblongo- 
obovatis, apice late rotundatis, nervis utrinque circiter 9. 
A shrub or small tree, apparently glabrous except the more 
or less puberulent inflorescence. Branches terete, brownish 
when dry. Leaves alternate firmly chartaceous, broadly oblong- 
obovate, up to 35 cm long and 17 cm wide, shining when dry, 
the upper surface brownish-olivaceous, the lower surface pale 
and somewhat glaucous, the base acute, the apex broadly 
rounded; nerves 9 on each side of the midrib, curved-ascending, 
prominent, the reticulations distinct, rather lax; petioles about 
9 cm long, geniculate above. Inflorescence apparently racemose, 
the racemes solitary, springing from the trunk or from the 
larger branches, up to 35 cm in length, cinereous-puberulent. 
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