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latioribus, 1 mm longis; foliis ellipticis, elliptico-lanceolatis vel ovatis, 

 2-5 cm longis, 15-22 mm latis. 



Flowers of both sexes somewhat crowded in the leaf-axils : male flowers 

 borne on comparatively stout hirsute pedicels 3-4 mm long; perianth- 

 segments (>, elliptic-lanceolate, 2 mm long, hirsute on the outer surface, 

 obtuse or shortly acuminate at the apex; anthers 3, 1 mm long: female 

 flowers subsessile, perianth-segments 6, strongly imbricate, oblanceolate or 

 linear-oblaneeolate, 2 mm long, hirsute on both surfaces but only slightly 

 on the inner; ovary glabrous except at the apex, 0.5 mm long, 10-sulcate; 

 styles 5, free but close together, leaving an opening at the somewhat 

 thickened apex, together equaling the ovary in width, 1 mm long, densely 

 hirsute. 



A shrub 2 m high, its branchlets somewhat flexuose, densely fer- 

 ruginous-pubescent; leaves resembling those of Psidium guajava, borne on 

 short petioles, the lamina coriaceous, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, rarely 

 ovate, 2-5 cm long, 15-22 mm wide, usually inequilateral, at both ex- 

 tremes acute or obtuse, both surfaces more or less pubescent; stipules 

 lanceolate, subacute, nearly 2 mm long. 



Luzon, Province of Benguet, Baguio, For. Bur. 4856 Curran. 

 A very distinct species, allied to G. malabaricum Bedd. 

 N.v. Anam, Ig., Benguet. 



8. Glochidion latistylum sp. nov. § Hemiglochidion. 



Floribus axillaribus, fasciculatis, masculinis pedicellis usque ad 2.5 cm 

 longis suffultis; perianthii segmentis 6, 2 mm longis, oblanceolatis rarius 

 ellipticis, antheris 3; floribus femineis pedicellis 6 mm longis suffultis, 

 perianthii segmentis G, anguste lanceolatis vel oblanceolatis, ovario 

 depresso-globoso, 1.3 mm diametro, columa stylari basi valde constricta, 

 ovario aequilata sed dimidio longiore, apice sulcata, umbilicata; capsulis 

 magnis, umbilicatis, 7-11-locularibus : foliis oblongo-lanceolatis, magnis. 



Male flowers borne on slender pedicels which attain a length of 2.5 cm 

 and are pubescent except near their base; perianth-segments 6, thick, 

 somewhat exceeding 2 mm in length, oblanceolate or rarely elliptic, the 

 base acuminate, the apex cuspidate, pubescent on the outer surafce; 

 anthers 3, 1 mm long, not including the produced connectives: female 

 flowers on stouter pubescent pedicels attaining 6 mm in length, the 

 perianth-segments 6, narrowly lanceolate or oblanceolate, 2.5-3 mm long, 

 pubescent on both surfaces; ovary densely but inconspicuously pubescent, 

 0.8 mm long, 1.3 mm in diameter, stylar column as wide as the ovary 

 but one-and-a-half times as long, strongly constricted at the base, globose- 

 ovate in outline, pubescent except at the glabrous truncate umbilicate 

 obscurely many-notched apex: capsules densely short-pubescent, 1.5 cm 

 long, exceeding 2 cm in diameter, 7-11-angled with corresponding inter- 

 vening grooves, 7-11-celled, umbilicate at the apex; seeds 7 mm long, 

 the testa dark-red, minutehy granular. 



