x.c,1 Merrill: New or Noteworthy Philippine Plants, XI 57 
3 to 4 cm wide; narrowed upward to the obtuse apex and below 
to the cuneate base; lateral nerves about 15 on each side of the 
midrib, distinct on the lower surface, the reticulations lax, not 
prominent; petioles stout, 1 to 1.5 cm long. Flowers not seen. 
Fruits numerous, fascicled on the branches in the axils of fallen 
leaves, their pedicels brown, 1.2 to 2.2 cm long, glabrous, the 
points of attachment densely brown furfuraceous-pubescent. 
Young fruits brown when dry, ovoid to oblong-ovoid, glabrous, 
about 1.5 cm long, tipped by the rather stout 1 cm long style, 
the persistent calyx-lobes four, 2-seriate, broadly ovate, coria- 
ceous, obtuse, the outer two about 6 mm long, 5 mm wide, the 
inner two somewhat thinner and a little broader, outside with 
few, appressed, dark-brown, shining hairs, becoming nearly or 
quite glabrous. 
PALAWAN, Silanga Peak, Merrill 9622, May 30, 1918, in forests on the 
exposed peak, summit, altitude about 530 meters, distributed as Payena. 
Apparently allied to Bassia multiflora Merr., but with relatively much 
narrower, less prominently nerved leaves. 
BASSIA OBOVATIFOLIA sp. nov. 
Arbor glabra circiter 20 m alta; foliis crasse coriaceis, obo- 
vatis, usque ad 12 cm longis, in siccitate nitidis, pallidis, apice 
obtusis, rotundatis vel retusis, basi cuneatis, nervis utrinque 
circiter 12; fructibus e axillis defoliatis, ellipsoideis, circiter 2.5 
em longis, pedicellis circiter 2 cm longis, sursum incrassatis ; 
sepalis persistentibus, circiter 5 mm latis, irregulariter lacerato- 
retusis. 
A tree about 20 m in height, entirely glabrous, the branches 
reddish-brown, terete, somewhat wrinkled when dry. Leaves 
thickly coriaceous, obovate to oblong-obovate, 7 to 12 cm long, 
4 to 6.5 cm wide, pale and shining when dry, apex obtuse, broadly 
rounded or retuse, base narrowed, cuneate, margins recurved; 
lateral nerves about 12 on each side of the midrib, distinct, the 
reticulations lax, not prominent; petioles stout, about 1.5 cm 
long. Fruits solitary or in pairs in the axils of fallen leaves on 
the ultimate branchlets, in general ellipsoid, coarsely wrinkled 
when dry, pale-brownish, about 2.5 cm long, the style persistent 
as a slender straight apiculus up to 1 cm in length. Persistent 
calyx lobes 4, in two pairs, suborbicular, concave, coriaceous, 
about 5 mm wide, irregularly lacerate-retuse; pedicels about 2 
em long, rather prominently thickened upward. 
Luzon, Province of Camarines, near Daet, For. Bur. 21426 (type), 21454 
Alvarez, May, 1914, on forested slopes, 20 to 50 meters altitude. 
A species similar to and manifestly closely allied to Bassia coriacea 
Merr., from which it is readily distinguished by its obovate leaves and 
fewer lateral nerves; distributed as Palaquium. 
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