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rugose, glabrous, pale and somewhat shining when dry, about 
13 mm long and 1 cm wide, the pedicels about 5 mm long; persis- 
tent calyx-lobes 5, lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent, about 1.5 
mm long. 
BABUYAN ISLANDS, Calayan, For. Bur. 26642 Velasco, June 6, 
1917, in forests, altitude about 40 meters. 
_ A species manifestly closely allied to Antidesma cumingit 
Muell.-Arg., differing in its larger leaves, longer stipules, and 
larger fruits. 
DAPHNIPHYLLUM Blume 
DAPHNIPHYLLUM OBTUSIFOLIUM sp. nov. 
Frutex glaber, ramulis brunneis, laevis, teretibus; foliis ellip- 
ticis ad oblongo-ellipticis, coriaceis, usque ad 9 cm longis, in 
siccitate nitidis, utrinque olivaceis et concoloribus vel subtus 
admodum brunneis, apice late rotundatis, interdum brevissime 
apiculatis, nervis utrinque 6 ad 9, distinctis; infructescentiis cir- 
cifer 5 cm longis, fructibus ovoideis, laevis, in siccitate nigris, 
circiter 12 mm longis. 7 
A glabrous shrub about 3 m high, the branches terete, brown- 
ish, slightly wrinkled, the branchlets smooth, brown or reddish- 
brown. Leaves numerous, elliptic to oblong-elliptic, 6 to 9 cm 
long, 3 to 4 cm wide, olivaceous and shining on both surfaces 
when dry, coriaceous, usually of the same color beneath as above, 
sometimes somewhat brownish, never glaucous, entire, the apex 
broadly rounded and sometimes minutely apiculate, base acute 
and obscurely 3-nerved or 3-plinerved; lateral nerves 6 to 9 on 
each side of the midrib, somewhat curved, distinct on both sur- 
faces as are the reticulations; petioles brown, 2.5 to 3.5 cm long. 
Infructescences axillary, about 5 cm long. Fruits. ovoid, black, 
somewhat fleshy, about 12 mm long, the pericarp somewhat 
wrinkled when dry, the styles less than 1 mm long, spreading oF 
recurved. 
Luzon, Tayabas Province, Mount Binuang, Bur. Sci. 28709 
(type), 28662 Ramos & Hdaio, May, 1917, in forests near the 
summit of the mountain, altitude about 1,000 meters. 
This species is perhaps as closely allied to Daphniphyllum 
glaucescens Blume as to any other species, but is readily distin- 
guished by its leaves being broadly rounded at their apices, not 
acuminate, but at most minutely apiculate. It likewise differs 
from Daphniphyllum borneense Stapf in the same leaf char- 
acters and in having much longer petioles. 
