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curved, the reticulations lax; petioles 2 to 4mm long. Flowers 
not seen. Panicles in fruit 2 cm long or less, in the upper axils, 
the branches few, somewhat pubescent, the fruits racemosely 
arranged, their pedicels short. Fruit apparently red, fleshy when 
fresh, glabrous, when dry wrinkled, about 3 mm long, distinctly 
gibbous, the stigma sublateral. 
Luzon, Province of Camarines, Mount Isarog, Phil. Pl. 1555 Ramos, 
November 24, 1913, in forests. 
Allied to Antidesma pleuricum Tul., from which it differs in its shorter, 
much narrower leaves and smaller panicles. 
ANTIDESMA CLEMENTIS sp. nov. 
Frutex subglaber, inflorescentiis leviter ferrugineo-pubescen- 
tibus; foliis chartaceis, oblongis ad late oblongo-lanceolatis, 
nitidis, usque ad 15 cm longis, basi acutis vel subrotundatis, 
apice subcaudato-acuminatis, nervis utrinque 7 vel 8; inflores- 
centiis quam folia longioribus, racemosis, simplex, axillaribus 
et e axillis defoliatis, bracteis ovatis, brevibus; floribus 4-meris, 
calycis usque ad medium divisis; ovario parce hirsuto; stigmate 
terminalibus. 
A shrub, nearly glabrous, the inflorescence and the midrib and 
nerves on the lower surface of the leaves sparingly ferruginous- 
pubescent. Branches and branchlets terete, slender, light-gray, 
glabrous. Leaves firmly chartaceous, 8 to 15 cm long, 2.5 to 
5.5 em wide, oblong to broadly oblong-lanceolate, both surfaces 
shining, the upper glabrous, dark brownish-olivaceous when dry, 
the lower much paler, the base acute to somewhat rounded, the 
apex slenderly subcaudate-acuminate, minutely apiculate; lateral 
nerves 7 or 8 on each side of the midrib, slender, distinct, curved- 
anastomosing, the reticulations very slender; petioles 4 mm long; 
stipules not seen, very early deciduous, apparently very small. 
Female racemes slender, solitary, simple, up to 20 cm in length, 
sparingly ferruginous-pubescent, in the leaf-axils and in the axils 
of fallen leaves. Flowers 4-merous, slightly pubescent, their 
pedicels 2 to 3 mm long, the subtending bracteoles ovate, obtuse, 
pubescent, about 1 mm long. Calyx-teeth 4, broadly ovate, one- 
half as long as the calyx or less. Disk sparingly pubescent. 
Stigma terminal. Fruit reddish, narrowly ovoid, somewhat 
compressed, glabrous, somewhat rugose when dry, about 5 mm 
long. 
MINDANAO, District of Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens 339, 884 
(type), the former with nearly mature fruits, March, 1906, the latter 
with female flowers and very young fruits, January, 1907, in thickets 
along streams. 
In vegetative characters this species very closely resembles a series of 
