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mm long, the lower part about 1 mm wide, ciliate on the margins, 
glabrous on the back, the median line inside also ciliate, the 
upper part glabrous, the upper 2 mm cleft into 6 or 7 primary, 
slender divisions, these usually bifid. Stamens 15; anthers 
oblong, obtuse, -scabrid, the anthers narrowed below, 2 mm long. 
Ovary densely pubescent, ovoid, 2-celled; style 3 mm long, ciliate 
in the lower one-half, glabrous above. Fruit obovoid-ellipsoid 
to cylindric-ellipsoid, base usually narrowed, apex rounded; 
smooth, the pericarp thin, 2 to 2.5 em long, about 1 em in dia- 
meter, the endocarp bony, rugose, 1-celled. 
LEYTE, Buenavista, near Jaro, C. A. Wenzel 698 (type), April, 1914, 
in flower; near Dagami, Wenzel 416, September, 1913, in fruit, in forests, 
altitude 60 to 500 meters. 
This species is closely allied to Elaeocarpus villosiusculus Warb., of 
the Philippines, with which the latter number cited above was at first 
identified. It differs, however, in its less acuminate leaves and especially 
in its sepals not being densely pubescent. It is also allied to Elaeocarpus 
teysmannii Koord. & Valeton, of Celebes, but does not approach that species © 
as closely as does E#. villosiusculus Warb. 
TILIACEAE 
TRICHOSPERMUM Blume 
TRICHOSPERMUM LEYTENSE sp. nov. 
Arbor parva, circiter 8 m alta, ramulis junioribus foliis in- 
florescentiisque plus minusve pubescentibus; foliis oblongis, char- 
taceis, aequilateralibus, usque ad 14 cm longis, prominente 
acuminatis, margine serrulato-denticulatis, basi rotundatis, 3- 
nerviis, supra glabris vel subglabris, subtus leviter pubescen- 
tibus; nervis lateralibus adscendentibus, utrinque 5 vel 6; 
infructescentibus axillaribus terminalibusque, paniculatis, cir- 
citer 8 cm longis; fructibus 2-valvis, compressis, plus minusve 
inflatis, circiter 1.5 cm longis, 2 ad 2.5 cm latis, extus dense 
ciliato-pilosis. 
A tree about 8 m high, the younger parts, leaves, and inflor- 
escence more or less pubescent. Branches glabrous, terete, very 
dark reddish-brown or nearly black when dry, the younger 
branchlets, inflorescence, and petioles rather densely pubescent 
with short, pale-brownish hairs. Leaves oblong, chartaceous, 
equilateral, 9 to 14 cm long, 3.5 to 6 cm wide, prominently and 
rather slenderly acuminate, base broadly rounded, 3-nerved, 
margins uniformly and distinctly serrulate-denticulate. The 
upper surface somewhat shining, brownish when dry, glabrous 
or with few hairs along the midrib and lateral nerves, the lower 
surface paler, the midrib, nerves, and reticulations more or less 
