262 MERRILL. 



MACHILUS Nees. 

 Machilus nervosa sp. lwv. 



Arbor glabra circiter 6 m alta; foliia ovato-ellipticis, usque ad 12 cm 

 Longis, eoriaceis, nitidis, sublus Bubglaucescentibus, grosse et pulcherrime 

 ret irulat is. uervis urtinque 6 vol 7, prominentibus, olovatis, anastomo- 

 santibus; paniculifi axillaribue terminalibusque, circiter 7 cm longis; 



fructibufl obovoidois, in sieco nigris, levitor angulatis, circiter 12 nun 

 longis, perianthii lobis late ovatis, aeutis, persistentibus, patulis. 



A glabrous tree about (i in bigb. Brandies terete, lenticellate, 

 grayish- or reddish-brown. Leaves ovate-elliptic, coriaceous, 7 to 12 

 cm long, 2.5 to 5 cm wide, base and apex acute, tbc upper surface 

 shining, the lower, at. least when young, subglaucous, nerves or 7 

 on each side of the midrib, beneath very prominent, elevated, darker- 

 colored than the surface of the leaf, curved-ascending, anastomosing, the 

 primary reticulations lax, distinct; petioles 2 to 3 cm long. Panicles 

 axillary and glabrous in fruit, about 7 cm long. Flowers unknown. Fruit 

 obovoid, red when fresh, black and shining when dry, about 12 mm long, 

 somewhat keeled or angled and obscurely reticulate, the persistent 

 perianth-lobes broadly ovate, acute, 1.5 mm long, glabrous or their 

 margins slightly pubescent, spreading. 



Luzon, Province of Benguet Mount Ugo, For. Bur. 108J/6 Outran, For. Bur. 

 1800!) Merritt, December, 1908, in hardwood forests in ravines at an altitude of 

 about 2.000 m. 



PHOEBE Xees. 



Phoebe sterculioides (Elmer) comb. nov. § Euphocbe. 

 Persea sterculioides Elmer Leafl. Philip. Bot. 1 (1008) 295. 



Arbor ; ad IS m alta; foliia snlicoriaceis, obovatis vol obhmceolatis, 

 circiter 18 cm longis, S cm latis, integris, apice breviter acuminatis, 

 ranter acutis, basi sensim angustatis, supra glabris, sublus plus minus 

 glaueescentibus, ferrugineo-pubescenl ibufl : nervis utrinque 9 ad 11; pani- 

 culis axillaribus, ferrugineo-pubescentibus, angustis, usque ad 20 cm 

 longis: calycis lobis 6, subaequalibus vol exterioribus admodum minoribus, 

 pubeseentibus, plus minus accrescent ibus, persistentilms, erectis; stami- 

 nibus fertilibus 9, 3-seriatis, antboris 1-locellatis. ordinis primi et 

 seeundi introrsis, ordinis tertii extrorsis. 



Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Lucban. Elmer 9121 (cotype), May 1907. Min- 

 doro, near Lake Naujan, For. But. 6793a, 682.',, 6859 Merritt, March-April, 1907. 

 Negros, 7273, 7287, 7327 Everett, May, 1907. Mindanao, Lake Lanao, (amp 

 Keitliley Mrs. Clemens 518, April-May, 1900, and six sheets without numbers. 



This species appears to be not uncommon in the Philippines, and extends from 

 central Luzon to Mindanao. In Mindoro it is know as Batieulin, a name applied 

 to many different species of Lauraoeae, in various genera. Specimens of this 

 plant with young fruit show accrescent, persistent, and appressed calyx segments, 

 which throws the species into I'hocbf. as defined bv Pax in Engler & Prantl's 



