310 MERRILL. 



the albumen bony, ruminate. The persistent calyx is accrescent, thickly 

 coriaceous, glabrous, reflexed, forming an acuminately 4-angled tube 1 

 to 1.5 cm long, and diagonally 2 to 2.5 cm in diameter, with four short, 

 acute or acuminate teeth, one at each corner. The side-walls of the 

 calyx-tube are concave, so that the apex of the reflated calyx-tube is 

 formed of four lobes radiating from the center to the corners of the 

 tube. The peduncle is about 2 cm long in mature fruits. 



.Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Port Banga, For. Bur. 9 ',53 (type), 917.5 

 Whitford & Hutchinson, January, February, 1908, with mature fruits. Basilan, 

 San Rafael, For. Bur. 609S Hutchinson, January, 1907, with mature fruits. Ne- 

 QB08, Gimagaan River, For. Bur. .',.>'/ 3, |£69 Frrrctl, April, May, 1906, tin- 

 former with abnormal inflorescence, tbe latter with immature flowers; Cadiz, 

 For. Bur. J,309 Everett, For. Bur. 7 ',07 Danao, June 1906, 1907, the former with 

 abnormal inflorescence, the latter sterile. Luzox, Province of Tayabas, Guina- 

 yangan, Merrill 2007 March, 190.'}, with immature fruits. 



This species is well characterized by its comparatively large, 8-celled, Speeded 

 fruits, its ruminated albumen, and especially by its persistent calyx which forms 

 an acuminately 4-angled, reflexed tube. It is apparently allied to the Bornean 

 Diospyros korthalsiana Iliern, but has much larger leaves, and a quite different 

 calyx-tube. In some respects it resembles D. subrigida Hochr., but is quite 

 distinct from that species. Like D. curranii Merr. this species frequently has an 

 abnormal, densely much branched inflorescence, apparently due to the work of 

 insects. It is known in Negros as Ata-at,i. in Tayabas as Anang, and in Basilan 

 as Bolongita. 



Diospyros montana Roxb. PI. Commend. 1 (1795) ;17, /. '/S : Iliern Monog. 

 Eben. (1873) 220. 



Luzon, Province of Nueva Ecija, near Cabanafuan. Bur. Set. 5966 McGregor, 

 September. 1908. 



A species not previously found in the Philippines, the above specimen agreeing 

 rather closely with the form considered by Iliern as the variety oordifolia, except 

 that the leaves are not cordate. 



India to the Moluccas and northern Australia. 



Var. parva var. nov. 



Differ! a typo foliis multo minoiibus, 1 ad 2.5 cm longis, subtus dense 

 moll iter pubescentibus; fructibus globosis, junioribus 8 mm diametro, 

 glabris, nigris, apiculatis, 8-locellatis ; calycis lobis accrescentibus, re- 

 trorsis. 



Luzox, Province of llocos Norte, Badoc, For. Bur. 13953 Mcrritt £ Darling, 

 November, 1908, on rocky hillsides at an altitude of about 65 m. 11.. AntinogOM, 



Well characterized by its small densely pubescent leaves; additional material 

 may sbow it to be worthy of specific rank. 



Diospyros phanerophlebia sp. nov. 



Arbor 5 ad 10 m alta, glabra, innorescentiis exceptiis ; foliis crasse 

 coriaceis, oblongis vel oblongo-lanceolatis, nitidis, basi acutis, subtus 

 2-glandulosis, apice obtusis vel leviter obtuso-acuminatis, usque ad 20 

 cm longis; nervis utrinque 8 ad 10, subtus prominentibus, elevatis, 



