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with minute, scattered teeth opposite the ends of some of the 
nerves, the upper surface, when dry, dark brownish-olivaceous, 
slightly shining, smooth, glabrous, the lower surface paler, ap- 
pressed hirsute with fulvous hairs on the midrib and lateral 
nerves ; lateral nerves 12 to 15 on each side of the midrib, prom- 
inent on the lower surface, anastomosing, the reticulations 
lax; petioles fulvous-pubescent, 2 to 2.5 cm long, in age be- 
coming nearly glabrous. Racemes terminal, many flowered, soli- 
tary, 10 to 14 cm long, densely hirsute with short, fulvous hairs. 
Flowers white, somewhat crowded, their pedicels 3 mm long, 
the bracteoles usually 8, lanceolate, acuminate, 2 to 2.3 mm long. 
Calyx hirsute, 2 to 2.5 mm long, the lobes lanceolate-ovate, 
acuminate, 0.8 mm long. Petals 4, linear-lanceolate, 8 to 9 mm 
long, about 2 mm wide at the base, narrowed upward to the 
acute apex, prominently 5-nerved, the nerves dark-colored, out- 
side hirsute. Filaments flattened, hirsute inside, about 4 mm 
long; anthers linear, narrower than the filaments, 3 mm long. 
Style glabrous, 8 mm long. Fruit subglobose, not rugose, 
sparingly pubescent, 7 to 8 mm in diameter. 
Luzon, Province of Laguna, near San Antonio and Paete, Bur. Sci. 
2893 (type), 14960, 10056 Ramos, For. Bur. 1185 Curran, flowering in 
February and March, fruiting June and July. 
A species manifestly closely allied to Polyosma philippinensis Merr., 
from which it differs in its smaller flowers, and its more numerously 
nerved leaves which are appressed-pubescent on the midrib and nerves on 
the lower surface, not glabrous. Another close ally appears to be the 
recently described Polyosma gitingensis Elm., which, however, has gia- 
brous leaves, even smaller flowers, and much larger bracteoles. 
POLYOSMA LINEARIBRACTEA sp. nov. 
Arbor, omnibus partibus plus minusve pubescentibus vel hir- 
sutis; foliis crasse coriaceis, oppositis, oblongis, usque ad 17 cm 
longis, utrinque acutis, apice mucronatis, margine grosse dis- 
tanter serratis; nervis utrinque circiter 12, subtus valde prom- 
inentibus; racemis terminalibus, solitariis, circiter 15 cm longis; 
fioribus circiter 2.4 cm longis, bracteolis linearis, elongatis, 8 
ad 12 mm longis. 
A tree said by the collector to be 20 m high, the branches 
terete, dark-brown, glabrous, the younger branchlets, the leaves, 
and the inflorescence more or less densely hirsute with grayish- 
brown hairs. Leaves thickly coriaceous, oblong, 12 to 17 cm 
long, 4 to 5 cm wide, narrowed about equally to the acute base and 
apex, the apex also mucronate, the upper surface, when young, 
appressed-hirsute, in age becoming glabrous, shining, greenish- 
olivaceous, the lower surface paler, rather prominently hirsute 
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