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ellipticis, usque ad 12 cm longis, utrinque angustatis, basi acutis, 
apice latissime acuminatis, acumine obtusis vel retusis, nervis 
utrinque 6, subtus valde prominentibus; inflorescentiis ¢ race- 
mosis, pubescentibus, densis, terminalibus, solitariis, peduncu- 
latis, circiter 4 cm longis; floribus breviter pedicellatis, 4-meris, 
bracteis lanceolatis, acuminatis, 1.5 mm longis, calycis ultra 
medium divisis; stigmate terminalibus. 
A shrub 2 to 3 m high, glabrous except the younger parts and 
the inflorescence. Branches slender, terete, brownish, slightly 
lenticellate, glabrous, the branchlets appressed-pubescent with 
short hairs. Leaves subcoriaceous, oblong to oblong-elliptic, 
subequally narrowed to the acute base and to the very broadly 
acuminate apex, 9 to 12 em long, 3.5 to 5.5 em wide, the acumen 
short, very blunt or retuse, both surfaces prominently shining, 
rather pale, and of about the same color when dry, glabrous; 
lateral nerves 6 on each side of the midrib, distant, looped- 
anastomosing, very prominent on the lower surface, the reticu- 
lations very lax; petioles 5 to 6 mm long, pubescent when young, 
becoming quite glabrous; stipules lanceolate or narrowly oblong- 
lanceolate, pubescent, deciduous, 3 to 5 mm long. Female in- 
florescence racemose, terminal, solitary, about 4 cm long including 
the peduncle, the flower-bearing part about 3 cm long, somewhat 
pubescent or puberulent, densely many flowered, cylindric. 
Flowers 4-merous, their pedicels pubescent, 1.2 mm long, the 
subtending bracteoles lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent, about 1.5 
mm long. Calyx slightly pubescent, the lobes 4, broadly ovate, 
acute, 0.8 mm long, slightly pubescent, more than one-half as 
long as the calyx. Ovary glabrous, ovoid or narrowly ovoid; 
style terminal, 4-cleft. 
PALAWAN, Mount Victoria, along streams, Bur. Sci. 749 Foxworthy, March 
25, 1906. 
A well-marked species probably most closely allied to Antidesma pen- — 
tandrum (Blanco) Merr. (A. rostratum Tul.), but with entirely different 
leaves. 
ANTIDESMA RAMOSII sp. nov. 
Arbor parva plus minusve pubescentibus; foliis oblongis, usque 
ad 15 cm longis, chartaceis vel submembranaceis, brevissime 
petiolatis, basi rotundatis vel subrotundatis, apice acuminatis, 
nervis utrinque circiter 10, subtus prominentibus; inflorescentiis 
lateralibus terminalibusque, ¢ et ¢ racemosis; floribus 4-meris, 
calycis ad medium divisis; stigmate terminalibus. 
A small tree, the branches slender, terete, brownish, lenticellate, 
glabrous, the branchlets, inflorescences, and lower surfaces of 
