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cm long, rarely 1-celled, 1-seeded. The subpersistent stigmas 
shortly stipitate, recurved, densely papillate, 2 mm long. | 
BASILAN, in forests east of the Cumalarang River, Bur. Sci. 16168 
Reillo, September 7, 1912. 
A species apparently belonging in the same group with Aporosa arborea 
Muell.-Arg. and A. arborescens Muell.-Arg., but entirely different from 
both. The subcaudate-acuminate apex of the leaves, their venation, and 
the narrowly ellipsoid, 2-seeded, pale-brown, acute 2 cm long fruits are 
characteristic. 
APOROSA ELLIPTIFOLIA sp. nov. 
Arbor glabra, usque ad 8 m alta; foliis ellipticis, coriaceis, 
in siccitate pallidis, plus minusve nitidis, circiter 10 em longis, 
apice latissime brevissime acuminatis, acumine obtusis vel ro- 
tundatis, basi acutis; nervis lateralibus utrinque circiter 6, dis- 
tinctis, grosse reticulato-anastomosantibus; fructibus ovoideis, 
glabris, 8 ad 10 mm longis, sessilibus vel subsessilibus. 
A glabrous tree 6 to 8 m high. Branches terete, rather 
slender, smooth, gray. Leaves alternate, elliptic, coriaceous, 8 
to 11 cm long, 4.5 to 6 cm wide, entire or with very faint 
indications of teeth at the ends of the lateral nerves, the apex 
very shortly, broadly, and obtusely acuminate, the base acute, 
both surfaces pale-green when dry, slightly shining, the lower 
somewhat paler than the upper; lateral nerves about 6 on each 
side of the midrib, rather prominent on the lower surface, 
coarsely looped-anastomosing, the primary reticulations lax, dis- 
tinct; petioles about 1 cm long. Flowers not seen. Fruit axil- 
lary, sessile or subsessile, solitary or two or three in an axil, 
green and purplish when fresh, brown and minutely verruculose 
when dry, glabrous, ovoid, 8 to 10 mm long. 
PALAWAN Silanga, Merrill 9609, May 24, 1918, on forested slopes at 
low altitudes. 
Most closely allied to Aporosa symplocosifolia Merr., differing in its rel- 
atively much broader, short, broadly and, bluntly acuminate leaves, and 
in the coarse, prominent, primary reticulations. 
APOROSA SIMILIS sp. nov. 
Species A. fruticosae (Blume) Muell.-Arg. valde affinis, differt 
ramulis glabris vel parcissime ciliatis, vix puberules vel pubes- 
centibus, spicis masculinis subinterruptis, calycis laciniis inte- 
gris, vix denticulatis, fructibus ut videtur paullo majoribus. 
A shrub or small tree reaching a height of 10 m, quite gla- 
brous, or the younger branchlets with very few, scattered, ciliate 
hairs, the branches terete, reddish-brown, the branchlets very 
slender, olivaceous. Leaves very similar to those of Aporosa 
fruticosa, membranaceous to chartaceous, glabrous, oblong to 
