17,3 Merrill: Noteworthy Philippine Plants, XVI 803 
2 or 3 greatly reduced, narrowly lanceolate leaves about 1.5 cm 
in length, the apical 1 to 2 cm slightly thickened, about 1.5 mm 
in diameter, these thickened parts supplied with many narrowly 
lanceolate, acuminate bracts 5 to 10 mm in length and marked 
with numerous scars of fallen bracts, this thickened portion 
bearing 1 or 2 slender, few-flowered racemes 1 to 1.5 cm long. 
Flowers 5-merous, reddish; the sepals narrowly oblong, about 
1 mm long, with few, large, prominent glands. 
MINDANAO, Surigao Province, Bur. Sci. 34456 Ramos & Pas- 
casio, April 14, 1919, on rocky forested slopes at low altitudes. 
This species is similar and manifestly closely allied to Dis- 
cocalyx angustissima Merr., from which it is distinguished by its 
entire leaves. 
EBENACEAE 
DIOSPYROS Linnaeus 
DIOSPYROS LONGICILIATA sp. nov. 
Frutex parvus, ramulis et petiolis et foliis perspicue longe 
_Ciliatis, ramis ramulisque tenuibus; foliis chartaceis, oblongo- 
lanceolatis, 9 ad 16 cm longis, basi rotundatis, apice tenuiter 
acute acuminatis, nervis utrinque circiter 12; floribus longe cil- 
iatis, axillaribus, solitariis, sessilibus, calycis tubo brevissimo, 
lobis lanceolatis, acuminatis, circiter 4 mm longis; ovario densis- 
sime ciliato. 
A small shrub, the branchlets, petioles and portions of the 
leaves prominently ciliate with long, slender, spreading hairs, 
these hairs usually about 2 to 3 mm in length. Branches slender, 
erect, glabrous, black when dry. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, char- 
taceous, 9 to 16 cm long, 2 to 3.5 em wide, brownish-olivaceous 
when dry, base rounded, apex rather slenderly and sharply 
acuminate, both surfaces and the margins long-ciliate with scat- 
tered hairs, these more numerous on the midrib than on other 
parts of the leaf; lateral nerves slender, about 12 on each side 
of the midrib, anastomosing, the reticulations lax, distinct; pet- 
ioles about 3 mm long. Pistillate flowers solitary, axillary, 
sessile, 4-merous. Calyx-tube very short, the lobes lanceolate, 
prominently long-acuminate from a broad base, about 4 mm long, 
conspicuously long-ciliate. Corolla reddish, the tube about 5 
mm long, externally long-ciliate, the lobes oblong, about 6 mm 
in length. Staminodes 4. Ovary very densely ciliate with long 
ascending hairs up to 4 mm in length; style densely hirsute 
below. 
DInacat, Bur. Sci. 35189, Ramos & Pascasio, May 11, 1919, 
in forests at low altitudes. 
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