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extra-axillary, peduncled, mostly 3-branched, up to 2.5 cm long, 
each subtended by several, coriaceous, linear bracts 2 to 5 mm 
in length. Flowers numerous, 5-merous, capitate at the tips of 
the branches, the heads up to 7 mm in diameter. Sepals obovate- 
orbicular, concave, externally prominently wrinkled-reticulate, 
about 2 mm in diameter, glabrous except the somewhat furfu- 
raceous-incised margins. Corolla about 3.5 mm long, the tube 
short, the lobes elliptic-obovate, rounded, about 2 mm long, glab- 
rous; filaments 1 mm long; anthers about 0.5 mm long. Ovary 
brown, glabrous, 2 mm in length. Capsule apparently some- 
what fleshy when fresh, ellipsoid, about 1.5 em long, 2-valved, 
the pericarp thickly coriaceous, apex acute or apiculate-acumi- 
nate; seed solitary, about 1 cm long, brown, and much wrinkled 
when dry. 
Luzon, Province of Rizal, Montalban, Loher 5779 (type), in flower, 
March, 1906, 5774, in fruit, July, 1905. 
A species readily recognizable by its unusually large leaves. 
EUONYMUS Linnaeus 
EVONYMUS OLIGANTHUS sp. nov. 
Arbor glabra circiter 8 m alta; foliis chartaceis ad subcoria- 
ceis, oblongo-oblanceolatis vel oblongo-ellipticis ad obovatis, usque 
ad 10 cm longis, pallidis, nitidis, sursum plus minusve serrato- 
crenulatis, utrinque subaequaliter angustatis, basi cuneatis, apice 
breviter obtuse acuminatis, nervis utrinque circiter 6, tenuibus; 
cymis axillaribus, tenuibus, longe pedunculatis, usque ad 9 em 
longis, dichotomis, paucifloris; fructibus obovoideis, circiter 6 
mm longis, vix sulcatis, laevis. 
A glabrous tree about 8 m high, the branches pale yellowish- 
green, slender, terete. Leaves opposite, chartaceous to subcoria- 
ceous, pale yellowish-green on both surfaces when dry, shining, 
oblong-elliptic to oblong-oblanceolate or obovate, 6 to 10 cm long, 
2 to 4.5 cm wide, subequally narrowed to the cuneate base and 
to the shortly broad-acuminate apex, the upper part distinctly 
serrate-crenulate with small distant teeth, below entire; lateral 
nerves about 6 on each side of the midrib, slender, ascending, 
anastomosing, the reticulations lax, obscure; petioles 4 to 7 mm 
long. Cymes axillary, slender, few-flowered, dichotomous, in 
fruit up to 9 cm long. Flowers mostly in groups of threes at 
the tips of the branchlets, the very young buds obovoid, sepals 
and petals more or less ciliate, the latter at maturity possibly 
lacerate. Mature fruits crimson, smooth, obovoid when dry, 
about 6 mm long, somewhat apiculate by the persistent style, 
not or very obscurely longitudinally suleate when dry, when 
