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ends, prominently acuminate at the apex and usually acute at the base, the 
distant, minute, gland-like marginal teeth, the very short petioles, and the 
subcapitate tips of the staminodes. 
CASEARIA LOHERI sp. nov. 
Arbor parva, 4 ad 6 m alta, partibus junioribus floribusque 
exceptis glabra; foliis chartaceis, oblongo-ovatis ad obovatis, 
usque ad 18 cm longis, breviter petiolatis, in siccitate brunneis, 
integris, basi rotundatis, apice late acuminatis, nervis utrinque 
5 vel 6; floribus axillaribus, fasciculatis, paucis, 5-meris, extus 
leviter hirsutis. Staminibus 10. 
A small tree 4 to 6 m high, quite glabrous except the flowers 
and the growing tips of the branchlets which are sparingly 
hirsute with short, appressed hairs. Branches slender, terete, 
smooth, grayish. Leaves chartaceous, oblong-ovate to obovate, 
8 to 18 cm long, 4 to 8 cm wide, entire, the upper surface rather 
dark-brown or olivaceous-brown when dry, slightly shining, the 
lower somewhat paler, the base usually broad, rounded, some- 
times subacute, equilateral or nearly so, the apex with a short, 
broad acumen; lateral nerves 5 or 6 on each side of the midrib, 
distant, rather prominent on the lower surface, curved or curved- 
ascending, anastomosing, the reticulations distinct; petioles 4 to 7 
mm long. Flowers 5-merous, axillary, fascicled and few or sub- 
solitary, their pedicels very short, jointed, the subtending brac- 
teoles 2, reniform or very broadly ovate, somewhat connate, 
broadly acuminate, externally somewhat pubescent with short 
hairs. Sepals 5, elliptic, rounded, slightly pubescent externally, 
concave, 3.5 to 4mm long. Stamens 10, their filaments united 
below with the alternating staminodes, the tubular part glabrous, 
0.8 mm long, the free parts of the filaments slender, glabrous, 
1.4 mm long; anthers oblong-ovate 0.8 mm long. Alternating 
staminodes shorter than the stamens, oblong, obtuse, 1 to 1.2 
mm long, glabrous externally, prominently ferruginous-hirsute 
at the apex. Ovary ovoid, 1.2 mm long, ferruginous-hirsute in 
the upper one-half, narrowed to the subsessile or sessile capitate 
stigma. Fruit ovoid or ellipsoid, glabrous, fleshy, reddish when 
mature, 2 cm long, the valves coriaceous. Seeds about 15, 
obliquely obovoid, about 5 mm long, externally densely covered 
with roundish, distinct, pale dots. Aril thin, submembrana- 
ceous, 8 to 10 mm long, enveloping the seed, the upper part more 
or less lacerate. 
Luzon, Province of Rizal, San Isidro, Bur. Sci. 18525 Ramos (type), 
August, 1910, in forests, Bur. Sci. 1851 Ramos, January, 1907, in fruit; 
Oriud, Loher 6215. 
