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more or less ferruginous-pubescent. Leaves verticillate, coria- 
ceous, rigid, brownish-olivaceous and slightly shining when dry, 
oblong-obovate to oblanceolate, 7 to 9 cm long, 1.5 to 3.5 cm 
wide, the apex acute or shortly and acutely acuminate, narrowed 
below to the slenderly cuneate base; lateral nerves about 7 on 
each side of the midrib, very slender, obscure, obsolete on the 
upper surface; petioles about 1 cm long. Infructescences ter- 
minal, subumbellate, their peduncles up to 4 cm long slightly 
pubescent, the pedicels 1 cm long or less. Capsules yellow when 
fresh, fleshy, glabrous, oblong, about 1.8 cm long, 2-valved, the 
valves black and rugose when dry, spreading, obtuse. 
MINDANAO, Surigao Province, Bur. Sci. 34441 Ramos & Pas- 
casio, April 25, 1919, along small streams at the iron deposit 
on the northeast coast, altitude about 590 meters. 
A species belonging in the group with Pittosporum odoratum 
Merr., but readily distinguishable by its thickly coriaceous, rigid, 
very obscurely nerved leaves. 
PITTOSPORUM EUPHLEBIUM sp. nov. 
Frutex vel arbor parva, ramulis junioribus leviter ferrugineo- 
pilosis; foliis verticillatis, chartaceis, oblongis ad oblongo-oblan- 
ceolatis, nitidis, acute acuminatis, basi cuneatis, nervis utrinque 
circiter 5, subtus cum reticulis valde perspicuis; capsulis termi- 
nalibus, solitariis anguste ellipsoideis, 2-valvis, circiter 3 cm 
longis. 
A shrub or small tree, glabrous except the very young parts 
which are sparingly ferruginous-pilose, the indumentum de- 
ciduous, branchlets slender, terete, the internodes 7 to 14 cm long. 
Leaves verticillate, chartaceous, oblong to oblong-oblanceolate, 
olivaceous, shining, the apex sharply acuminate, the base cu- 
neate, 7 to 12 cm long, 2 to 3 cm wide; lateral nerves about 5 on 
each side of the midrib, distant, very prominent on the lower 
surface, projecting, laxly anastomosing, the primary reticula- 
tions lax, distinct. Capsules terminal, solitary, narrowly ellip- 
soid and nearly smooth when dry, 2-valved, about 3 cm long, 
their peduncles about 1.5 cm in length. ~~ 
PANAY, Capiz Province, Libacao, Bur. Sci. 35416 Martelino 
& Edafio, May 30, 1919, on open forested slopes at low altitudes. 
By its solitary, terminal capsules this species apparently be- 
longs in the group with Pittosporum glaberrimum Merr. from 
which it is distinguished by its larger leaves and capsules and by 
its nerves and lax reticulations being prominently raised on the 
lower surface. : 
