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Flowers unknown. Immature fruits globose, wrinkled when dry, 
subglobose, 1 to 1.5 cm in diameter, gray-puberulent externally. 
TINAGO ISLAND, Ahern 416, collected by Quadras between February and 
May, 1901, locally known as bunganon. 
The species above described was previously determined by me as Rypa- 
rosa longipedunculata Boerl., but comparison with authentic material from 
specimens cultivated in the Botanical Garden at Buitenzorg, show that it 
is a species quite different from that, although probably closely allied to it. 
CASEARIA Jacquin 
CASEARIA BREVIPES sp. nov. § Pitumba. 
Arbor parva, glabra; foliis oblongis vel late oblongo-lanceo- 
latis, chartaceis vel subcoriaceis, in siccitate brunneis, usque ad 20 
em longis, subintegris vel distanter minuteque glanduloso-dentic- 
ulatis, utrinque angustatis, apice longe acuminatis, basi acutis 
vel subrotundatis, brevissime petiolatis, nervis utrinque 8 ad 
10; floribus axillaribus, fasciculatis, 5-meris, pedicellatis. Stami- 
nibus 10, staminodeis oblongis, apice capitatis, dense ciliatis. 
A small tree, quite glabrous, the branches prominently zigzag, 
terete, grayish, rather slender. Leaves oblong to broadly oblong- 
lanceolate, 14 to 20 cm long, 4 to 7 cm wide, subentire or with 
widely scattered, minute, gland-like, obscure teeth, chartaceous 
to subcoriaceous, when dry somewhat brownish, the upper sur- 
face slightly shining, the lower a little paler, narrowed at both 
ends, the base acute or somewhat obtuse, rarely somewhat 
rounded, equilateral, the apex rather long-acuminate, the acumen 
blunt; lateral nerves 8 to 10 on each side of the midrib, rather 
prominent on the lower surface, somewhat curved-ascending, 
anastomosing near the margin, the reticulations distinct; peti- 
oles stout, 2 to 3 mm long. Flowers axillary, few, fascicled, on 
thickened, prominent, axillary tubercles, 5-merous. Pedicels 
glabrous, up to 3 mm long, jointed, each subtended by two 
broadly ovate bracteoles about 1 mm long. Sepals 5, broadly 
elliptic, rounded, concave, glabrous, membranaceous, 3 to 4 mm 
long. Stamens ten, 3 mm long, the tubular part about 1 mm 
long, glabrous, the free parts of the filaments and the anthers 
each about 1 mm long, the ten, alternating, free staminodes 
oblong, shorter than the stamens, the apical parts suborbicular- 
capitate, densely ciliate. Ovary narrowly ovoid, about 2 mm 
long, narrowed upward to the sessile or subsessile capitate 
stigma, glabrous, or with very few scattered hairs. Fruit 
unknown. 
BASILAN, Bur. Sci. 16118 Reillo, August 31, 1912, along streams. 
The species is well characterized by its leaves being narrowed at both 
