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mm in diameter, each containing about 6 seeds, the seeds dark- 
brown, shining, suborbicular to roughly triangular in outline, 
concavo-convex. 
PALAWAN, Apulit Island, Taytay Bay, Merrill 9418 (type), 
May, 1913; near Puerto Princesa, For. Bur. 3533, 4523, 7460 
Curran, January and June, 1906. DUMARAN, Bur. Sci. 21623 
Escritor, August, 1918. Apo (Mindoro Strait), Merrill 412, 
December, 1902. UBIAN, Merrill 5390, October, 1906. LUZON, 
Pangasinan Province, Bolinao, For. Bur. 8380 Curran & Merritt, 
December, 1907: Zambales Province, Bur. Sci. 5105 Ramos, De- 
cember, 1907. 
This species grows in forests and thickets immediately back 
of the beach, all the specimens cited being rather remarkably 
uniform in appearance and characters. Its alliance is with 
Tarenna fragrans Koord. & Val., from which it differs in 
numerous characters, notably in its much shorter flowers, gla- 
brous corolla, and fewer-nerved leaves. Some of the specimens 
cited above are the basis of the Philippine reference of Stylo- 
coryne webera Wallich.® It is apparently more closely allied to 
Tarenna asiatica (Linn.) O. Kuntze than it is to T. fragrans 
Koord. & Val. 
TARENNA NITIDA sp. nov. _ 
Arbor circiter 5 m alta, inflorescentiis parcissime pubescenti- 
bus exceptis glabra; foliis chartaceis, olivaceis, nitidis, oblongo- 
ellipticis ad ovato-ellipticis, usque ad 12 cm longis, utrinque 
acuminatis, nervis utrinque circiter 6, distinctis; inflorescentiis 
circiter 4.5 cm longis, brevissime pedunculatis vel e basi ramosis, 
paucifloris; floribus circiter 2 cm longis, 5-meris, corollae tubo 
6 mm longo, lobis oblongis, apiculatis, 10 mm longis; loculis 
biovulatis. 
A small tree, about 5 m high, entirely glabrous except the 
slightly pubescent inflorescence. Branches terete, brownish or 
grayish, the branchlets usually olivaceous, slender, and often 
sulcate. Leaves chartaceous, olivaceous and prominently shin- 
ing on both surfaces when dry, oblong-elliptic to ovate-elliptic, 8 
to 12 cm long, 4 to 5.5 cm wide, subequally narrowed to the dis- 
tinctly acuminate apex and the decurrent-acuminate base; lateral 
nerves about 6 on each side of the midrib, prominent, anastomos- 
ing; petioles about 1 cm long; stipules broadly ovate, obtuse to 
acuminate, about 6 mm long. Inflorescences corymbose, few- 
flowered, sessile or shortly peduncled, about 4.5 cm long including ° 
* Elm. Leafl. Philip. Bot. 1 (1906) 33. 
