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the apex long and slenderly acuminate, the acumen usually some- 
what falcate, the upper surface olivaceous, shining when dry, 
the lower somewhat glaucous, dull, much paler than the upper; 
lateral nerves 9 or 10 on each side of the midrib, slender, curved 
upward, looped-anastomosing near the margins, the reticulations 
fine, distinct; petioles about 8 mm long. Pistillate flowers 
numerous, small, densely fascicled in the axils, slightly pubes- 
cent. Sepals 5, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, 2 mm long. 
Petals ovate, about 1 mm long. Immature fruit ovoid or ellip- 
soid, glabrous, about 6 mm long, 1-celled, tipped by the style. 
Luzon, Province of Camarines, Mount Isarog, along streams in forests, 
Phil. Pl. 1551 Ramos, November 25, 1913. 
The alliance of this species is manifestly with Bridelia glauca Blume 
‘which extends from Sumatra to Java, the Philippines, and Amboina. The 
present form is distinguished by its slenderly acuminate leaves which 
are quite glabrous, or at least not more than obscurely puberulent on the 
lower surface. 
CLEIDION Blume 
CLEIDION LANCEOLATUM sp. nov. 
Frutex 2 ad 3 m altus plus minusve breviter adpresse hirsutus; 
foliis lanceolatis, chartaceis, usque ad 22 cm longis, utrinque 
subaequaliter angustatis, apice acuminatis, basi acutis vel leviter 
obtusis, nervis utrinque circiter 10, adscendentibus, pagina su- 
periore minutissime albido-punctata; inflorescentiis ¢ tenuibus, 
usque ad 15 em longis, axillaribus, solitariis, multifloris; ° subae- 
quilongis, paucifloris; fructibus leviter pubescentibus. 
A shrub 2 to 3 m high, apparently dioecious, the young branch- 
lets, inflorescence and younger leaves sparingly appressed-hirsute 
with short hairs. Branches slender, terete, light-gray or some- 
what brownish. Leaves lanceolate, chartaceous, dull or slightly 
shining when dry, lower surface a little paler than the upper, 
subequally narrowed to the acuminate apex and to the acute or 
somewhat obtuse base, 12 to 22 cm long, 2 to 4.5 cm wide, margins 
distantly crenate-serrate, the upper surface of the leaf with 
numerous, minute, white dots, obscurely verruculose on both sur- 
faces; lateral nerves about 10 on each side of the midrib, prom- 
inent on the lower surface, curved-ascending; petioles 1 to 2 cm 
long, somewhat geniculate at the apex. Male inflorescences 
slender, axillary, solitary, up to 15-cm long, sparingly appressed- 
hirsute, the flowers very numerous, greenish, fascicled, the fas- 
cicles more or less distant below, approximate above, each fascicle 
subtended by one or more, broadly ovate, 1.5 to 2 mm long, acu- 
minate bracts; buds ovoid, glabrous, 1.8 mm in diameter; sepals 
