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rounded to shortly and obtusely acuminate; lateral nerves about 
7 on each side of the midrib, prominent, curved, the reticula- 
tions distinct; petioles about 1 cm long. Infructescences woody, 
about 6 cm long, trichotomous, each branch bearing 2 or 3 
capsules. Mature fruits brownish, elliptic, rounded at both ends, 
somewhat woody, about 7 cm long and 4 cm wide. 
MINDANAO, Surigao Province, Bur. Sct. 34761 Ramos & Pas- 
casio, May 18, 1919, in dry forests at low altitudes. 
The alliance of this species is with Hippocratea megalocarpa 
Merr., from which it is especially distinguished by its larger 
and more-numerously nerved leaves and its differently shaped, 
shorter fruits. 
ICACINACEAE 
GOMPHANDRA Wallich 
GOMPHANDRA OBLONGIFOLIA sp. nov. 
Arbor glabra, usque ad 10 m alta; foliis chartaceis, oblongo- 
ellipticis ad oblongis, olivaceis, nitidis; 9 ad 15 cm longis, 
utrinque subaequaliter angustatis, basi acutis, apice acuminatis, 
nervis utrinque 5 vel 6, reticulis obsoletis vel subobsoletis ; cymis 
plerumque terminalibus oppositifoliisque, usque ad 4 cm longis; 
fructibus ellipsoideis, 1.5 ad 1.8 cm longis. 
A tree, up to 10 m high, glabrous except the somewhat 
pubescent inflorescences. Leaves chartaceous, oblong-elliptic to 
oblong, olivaceous, when dry shining, the lower surface paler 
than the upper, 9 to 15 cm long, 3.5 to 6 cm wide, subequally 
narrowed to the acute base and to the more or less acuminate 
apex; lateral nerves 5 or 6 on each side of the midrib, distinct, 
obscurely anastomosing, the reticulations obsolete or nearly so; 
petioles about 1 cm long. Cymes solitary, peduncled, sparingly 
pubescent, leaf-opposed, mostly at the tips of the ultimate 
branchlets, in fruit up to 4 cm long. Fruit ellipsoid to oblong- 
ellipsoid, 1.5 to 1.8 em long, brown when dry, faintly ridged 
or sulcate. 
LUZON, Camarines Province, Paracale, Bur. Sci. 33727 Ramos 
& Edaiio (type), For. Bur. 27403 Alambra; Lagonoy, For. Bur. 
21103 Hsia. CATANDUANES, Bur. Sci. 30258, 30855 Ramos. In 
dipterocarp. forests at low altitudes, fruiting in December and 
in April. 
This species somewhat resembles Urandra luzoniensis Merr., 
which I now consider to belong in the genus Gomphandra, and 
the specimens cited above were originally so identified. The 
present species differs from Urandra luzoniensis in its oblong 
to oblong-elliptic, more-numerously nerved leaves which are 
