— Merrill: Noteworthy Philippine Plants, XVI 273 
brownish, the very young branchlets slightly pubescent. Leaves _ 
oblong-elliptic, subcoriaceous, rather pale and shining when dry, 
- the lower surface paler than the upper, but scarcely glaucous, 
about 35 cm long and 15 cm wide, the base acute, the apex 
abruptly acuminate, the acumen usually about 1 cm long; lateral 
nerves about 22 on each side of the midrib, very prominent on 
the lower surface, the reticulations distinct, the primary ones 
leaving the nerves at about right angles; petioles 2 to 3 cm long. 
Staminate panicles terminal, about 50 cm long, many-flowered,: 
the lower branches up to 30 cm long. Flowers somewhat fas- 
cicled on the branchlets, rather densely ‘ferruginous-pubescent, 
sessile or with very short pedicels, 5 to 6 mm in diameter. 
Calyx about 3 mm in diameter, the lobes triangular, acute, about 
1mm long. Petals oblong-lanceolate, acute, 2.8 mm long, densely 
ferruginous-pubescent externally. Filaments 1.5 to 3 mm long. 
MINDANAO, Surigao Province, Bur. Sci. 34772 Ramos & Pas- 
casio, June 19, 1919, along streams at low altitudes. 
This species is well characterized by its ample, glabrous leaves, 
and its very large, ferruginous-pubescent panicles. It is ap- 
parently most closely allied to the Moluccan Semecarpus cassu- 
vium Roxb. and has no close allies among the known Philippine 
species. 
AQUIFOLIACEAE = 
ILEX Linnaeus 
ILEX CURRANII sp. nov. § Euilex, Rugosae. 
Arbor parva, glabra, circiter 3 m alta; foliis eglandulosis, nu- 
merosis, coriaceis, olivaceis, nitidis, ovatis, 1 ad 1.5 cm longis, 
basi acutis ad rotundatis, sursum angustatis, apice breviter acu- 
minatis, margine crenatis, nervis utrinque circiter 6, subtus cum 
reticulis prominulis; floribus axillaribus, fasciculatis vel solitariis, 
4-meris, calycis lobis leviter ciliatis; fructibus globosis, 5 mm 
diametro, pyrenis 4. 
A glabrous shrub, or small] tree, about 3 m high, the branches 
rather pale, the branchlets nearly black when dry. Leaves co- 
riaceous, ovate, 1 to 1.5 cm long, 7 to 12 mm wide, olivaceous, 
shining, not glandular, the base acute to rounded, the apex 
shortly and bluntly acuminate, margins distinctly crenate, the 
crenulations often with an indurated, incurved tip; lateral 
nerves about 6 on each side of the midrib, somewhat impressed 
on the upper surface, distinct on the lower surface as are the 
reticulations; petioles 2to 4mm long. Fruits subglobose, about 
5 mm in diameter, somewhat rugose and nearly black when dry, 
containing 4 pyrenes, the «persistent calyx about 2 mm in 
