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IX, ©, 4 Merrill: Philippine Plants, X 335 
latis, globosis vel globoso-obovoideis, circiter 2 cm diametro, 
seminibus 4, albumine vix ruminato. 
A small tree, glabrous except for the flowers, the younger 
branchlets, and the lower surfaces of young leaves. Branches 
and branchlets terete, slender, dark-gray or brownish-black 
when dry, wrinkled, lenticellate, the younger branchlets somewhat 
ferruginous-pubescent. Leaves oblong, chartaceous or subcor- 
iaceous, 12 to 20 cm long, 3.5 to 8 cm wide, narrowed at both 
ends, the apex rather sharply acuminate, the base acute, eglandu- 
lar, the upper surface smooth and shining when dry, brownish 
or olivaceous, the lower surface usually much paler, slightly 
shining, when young rather softly pubescent or puberulent, 
often becoming glabrous or nearly so; lateral nerves about 12 
on each side of the midrib, very prominent, arched-anastomosing, 
the reticulations lax, prominent; petioles up to 1 cm in length. 
Female flowers solitary or fascicled in the axils of fallen leaves, 
or fascicled on rather prominent protuberances on the branchlets 
below the leaves, 4-merous, sessile or very shortly and stoutly 
pedicelled. Calyx densely ferruginous-pubescent, the tube very 
short, broad, the lobes immediately after flowering orbicular- 
reniform, rounded, densely ferruginous-pubescent on both sur- 
faces, about 3 mm in diameter, soon accrescent, spreading, 
reniform, 5 mm long and 8 mm in diameter, often recurved, 
thickly coriaceous. Corolla and stamens not seen. Ovary ovoid, 
densely ferruginous-pubescent, 4-celled. Fruit apparently fleshy, 
globose or obovoid-globose, when dry about 2 cm in diameter and 
often grayish, the pericarp glabrous, wrinkled, the coriaceous 
calyx-lobes persistent at the base of the fruit. Seeds 4, one in 
each cell, 12 to 15 mm long, about 1 cm wide and thick, the 
albumen hard but scarcely bony, smooth, whitish or yellowish 
when dry, not at all ruminate. | 
BASILAN, Bur. Sci. 16101 Reillo, August, 1912 (type). 
I refer also to this species the following material: LUZON, without definite 
locality, Loher 6562, in fruit: Province of Tayabas, Bur. Sci. 10283 Curran, 
in fruit. CrBu, Asturias, For. Bur. 6450 Everett, in fruit. MINDANAO, 
District of Zamboanga, San Ramon, Hallier, in fruit. The only recorded 
native name is the Cebuano panangtilong. 
DIOSPYROS MIRANDAE sp. nov. 
Arbor circiter 30 m alta inflorescentiis exceptis glabra; foliis 
crasse coriaceis, oblongis, nitidis, utrinque concoloribus, usque 
ad 12 cm longis, acuminatis, nervis utrinque circiter 10, tenuibus, 
vix prominentibus, reticulis densis; floribus ¢@ 5-meris, axilla- 
ribus, in racemis brevibus paucifloris dispositis; calycibus in 
