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alabastra obovoideis, 6 mm diametro, crassissime coriaceis, 
longitudinaliter plicatis, lobis reniformibus; ovario 10-locellato. 
A dioecious tree about 30 m high, glabrous except the in- 
florescence. Branches terete, grayish, lenticellate. Leaves 
alternate, thickly coriaceous, oblong, 8 to 12 em long, 3 to 5 
cm wide, shining and of about the same color on both surfaces, 
base rounded or subacute, apex shortly acuminate; lateral nerves 
about 10 on each side of the midrib, slender, not prominent, 
anastomosing, the reticulations slender, dense; petioles about 5 
mm long. Female flowers in short, axillary, solitary, few- 
flowered, pubescent, spike-like racemes, the whole about 2 cm 
long. Flowers 5 or less in each raceme, their pedicels very stout, 
jointed, pubescent, about 2 mm long. Calyx in bud, just before 
anthesis, obovoid, pubescent, about 6 mm long and wide, with 
5 reniform, rounded lobes, very thickly coriaceous, 3 mm long 
and 6 mm wide, the lobed portion longitudinally plicate or 
folded-plicate, star-shaped in cross-section, pubescent inside. 
Corolla-tube 6 mm long, 2.5 mm wide, cylindric, basal part gla- 
brous, pubescent above, the lobes broadly ovate, spreading in 
anthesis, 5, pubescent on both surfaces, about 5 mm long, acute. 
Ovary ovoid, densely appressed-pubescent, narrowed upward 
into the thick style, ovary and style about 5 mm long, 10-celled. 
Staminodes 5, inserted at the base of the corolla, the sterile 
anthers linear, about 2 mm long. 
MINDANAO, District of Cotabato, southeastern ridge of Mount Glan, For. 
Bur. 18752 Miranda (type), For. Bur. 14248 Tarrosa, June 6 and May 25, 
1912, in forests, altitude 90 to 125 meters, locally known to the Moros as 
bantulinay. 
A species well characterized by its peculiar calyx which is somewhat 
of the type of that of Diospyros affinis Thw. The flowers are said to be 
white and fragrant, and the heart-wood is described as black. 
DIOSPYROS PLICATA sp. nov. 
Arbor dioica, 8 ad 25 m alta, partibus junioribus inflorescent- 
iisque exceptis glabra; foliis junioribus pubescentibus, vetus- 
tioribus glabris, oblongis, usque ad 18 cm longis, coriaceis, nitidis, 
subtus pallidioribus, acuminatis, nervis utrinque circiter 12, 
distantibus, patulis, distinctis, anastomosantibus; floribus ¢ 
axillaribus, fasciculatis, dense fulvo-pubescentibus, 5-meris,’ 
sepalis in anthesis breviter connatis, longitudinaliter plicatis et 
horizontaliter undulato-plicatis, accrescentibus et 2.5 cm longis. 
A tree 8 to 25m high. Branches terete, slender, nearly black 
when dry, the growing parts, the young leaves, and the flowers 
appressed-pubescent. Leaves oblong, coriaceous, 12 to 18 cm 
