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IX, C, 4 Merrill: Plantae Wenzelianae, II 355 
petioles glabrous, about 8 mm long. Inflorescence spike-like, 
solitary, axillary, 15 to 20 cm long, somewhat cinereous-pubes- 
cent, the pistillate flowers scattered, sessile or on very short 
pedicels. Very young fruits obovoid, densely cinereous-pubes- 
cent, about 7 mm in diameter, densely covered with short, spine- 
like processes 2 mm long or less, which, at maturity, are prob- 
ably greatly elongated as in many other species of the genus. 
LEYTE, Buenavista, near Jaro, C. A. Wenzel 737, May 25, 1914, in 
forests, altitude about 500 meters. 
Apparently most closely allied to Castanopsis philippensis Vid., differ- 
ing especially in its much larger leaves, which are entirely glabrous, 
and their more numerous nerves. 
MORACEAE 
CONOCEPHALUS Blume 
CONOCEPHALUS DIFFUSUS sp. nov. 
Frutex epiphyticus, subscandens, inflorescentiis exceptis gla- 
ber; foliis coriaceis, usque ad 22 cm longis, ovatis ad oblongo- 
ovatis, integris vel leviter undulatis, acuminatis, basi subacutis 
vel obtusis, nervis utrinque circiter 12, valde prominentibus; 
stipulis 4 em longis, coriaceis, persistentibus, navicularibus, 2- 
carinatis; inflorescentiis ° axillaribus pedunculatis, dichotomis, 
circiter 16 cm longis, usque ad 25 cm latis, ramulis junioribus 
parce furfuraceo-pubescentibus; capitulis numerosis, 5 mm dia- 
metro, globosis. 
An epiphytic, subscandent shrub, glabrous except the inflor- 
escence, the branches terete, grayish-brown, about 8 mm in 
diameter. Leaves ovate to oblong-ovate, coriaceous, dark-colored 
when dry, slightly shining, 15 to 22 cm long, 9 to 13 cm wide, 
margins entire or slightly undulate, base acute, obtuse, or some- 
times somewhat rounded, apex rather abruptly short-acuminate, 
the lower surface with cystoliths along the ultimate reticulations, 
the upper minutely and rather densely verruculose; lateral nerves 
12 on each side of the midrib, straight, anastomosing near the 
margins, the reticulations slender; petioles 4 to 6 cm long; 
stipules boat-shaped, falcate, coriaceous, persistent, about 4 cm 
long, 2-keeled. Staminate inflorescence diffuse, axillary, soli- 
tary, peduncled, dichotomously branched, about 16 cm long, up 
to 25 cm wide, the younger parts somewhat furfuraceous-pubes- 
cent, the younger inflorescences with subcoriaceous, orbicular, 
deciduous bracts up to 1 cm in diameter which enclose the heads. 
Heads very numerous, in fruit about 5 mm in diameter, each 
with from 15 to 20, somewhat compressed, narrowly ovoid, acute, 
