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globosis vel depresso-globosis, circiter 3 cm diametro, in siccitate 
nigris, nitidis, glabris, seminibus 7 vel 8. 
A tree about 25 m in height, quite glabrous except the flowers, 
the branches slender, terete, dark-colored, the branchlets and 
petioles black when dry. Leaves chartaceous, dark-colored or 
somewhat blackish when dry, shining, 14 to 27 cm long, 5 to 9 
em wide, of about the same color on both surfaces, the apex 
shortly acuminate, base acute to subacute, usually with a pair 
of distinct glands near the junction with the petiole; lateral 
nerves 12 to 14 on each side of the midrib, slender, distinct, anas- 
tomosing, the reticulations rather lax, distinct; petioles 1 to 1.5 
em long. Flowers axillary, fascicled, 4-merous, few in each fasci- 
cle, some in the axils of leaves, some in the axils of fallen leaves, 
each subtended by one or two pairs of broadly ovate, pubescent 
bracts 2 mm long or less. Calyx about 8 mm long and 7 mm in 
diameter, pubescent externally, black when dry, the lobes broadly 
ovate, acuminate, erect, about 4 mm long, 4 to 4.5 mm wide at 
the base. Corolla-tube 8 to 9 mm long, inflated, about 7 mm in 
diameter, much narrowed toward the throat, rather densely 
pubescent with short, grayish-brown hairs, the lobes 4, spread- 
ing, narrowly oblong, somewhat falcate, acute, thickly coria- 
ceous, about 9 mm long, 5 mm wide. Stamens about 20, mostly 
in pairs, 2-seriate, the filaments of each pair more or less united ; 
anthers narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, 3.5 to 5.5 mm long. 
Ovary ovoid, pubescent, about 4 mm in diameter, 8-celled ; style 
stout, pubescent, widened below, about as long as the ovary, the 
stigma irregularly lacerate. Fruit globose or depressed-globose, 
yellow to red when mature, black and shining when dry, about 
3 em in diameter, the persistent calyx black, coriaceous, glabrous 
or nearly so, nearly square in outline, about 1.5 cm broad, shallow. 
Seeds 7 or 9, somewhat flattened, about 13 cm long, 7 mm wide, 
rounded at both ends, smooth, black, shining, the albumen smooth. 
Luzon, Province of Camarines, For. Bur. 21448 (type) 21705, 22631 
Alvarez, April and May, 1914, March, 1912, from Mount Calinigan, Mount 
Labo, and Lanot River, in forests, 100 to 500 meters. 
The species is perhaps as closely allied to Diospyros maritima Blume 
as any other species, but with entirely different, much thinner, fewer nerves 
and different flowers and fruits. 
MIMUSOPS Linnaeus 
MIMUSOPS CALOPHYLLOIDES sp.. nov. 
Arbor circiter 18 m alta, floribus exceptis glaberrima; foliis 
oblongo-obovatis, subcoriaceis, usque ad 12 cm longis, obtusis ad 
rotundatis, basi acutis, nitidis, nervis lateralibus numerosissimis, 
densis, distinctis, margine recurvatis, venis marginalibus dis- 
