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LEAFLETS or PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. II. ART. 22 
pedicels 1 to 1.5 em. long, thin and slender, deciduous, 
few and scattering along the secondary peduncles; flowers dull 
red, 5-merous; calyx barely united at the base, punctate, the 
segments 1.5 mm. long, 0.5 mm. wide, oblong or nearly 
strap like, the apex abruptly contracted into a fine point; 
corolla also punctate, 2.5 mm. long, subrotund to elliptic, 
glabrous, rotately spreading, ‘nearly free; stamens about 10, 
sessile; anthers 0.5 mm. long, one half as wide, both ends 
subtruncate, inserted upon the base of the corolla segments. 
Type specimen 7674, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province 
of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. 
An undershrub of woods in fertile half swampy ground. 
Rare and only known from Mount Banahao. 
Distinct from its nearest relative D. angustifolia Mez. 
Discocalyx psychotrioides Elm. n. sp. 
Shrub, 4 m. high; branches divaricate, quite crooked and 
rigid, covered with smooth yellowish gray bark. Leaves flat, char- 
taceous, spreading and clustered from the tips of the twigs, obovate, 
entire or only obscurely denticulate toward the apex, early 
falling, leaving broad conspicuous scars, much lighter green 
beneath, above glabrous and prominently punctate, the apex 
Short acute, base cuneate, the medium sized blades 14 cm. 
long, 6 em. wide above the middle, beneath short rufous 
brown pubescent especially along the nerves and conspicuously 
punctate; petiole at most 2 em. long, with a dense rusty 
brown tomentum on the younger ones, gradually thickened 
toward the base; nerves dark brown in the dry state; the 
lateral ones oblique, subparallel, from 5 to 8 on each side, 
those near the base inconspicuous; bud scales 1 cm. long, 
covered with a similar tomentum. Infrutescence a cluster of 
3 to 5 racemose spikes, from the leaf axils or terminal upon 
short leafless twigs; rachis usually somewhat compressed, 4 
to 7 cm. long, radially spreading, densely rusty brown pubes- - 
cent; fruit upon 1 to 2 mm, long brown pubescent  pedi- 
cels, smooth, yellowish, early falling and leaving conspicuous 
scars, globose, 7 mm. in diameter, 1-seeded; style of fruit 
very short, bearing a rim like capitate stigma; persistent 
calyx united at the base; the middle portion of the 5 seg- 
