506 LEAFLETS or PHILIPPINE Botany [Vor. If, Art 24 
plish, subtended by 2 to 8 large bracts and bibracteate 2 
em. from the base, all the bracts similarly colored; stamin- 
ate head ellipsoid, 1.5 em. long, 1 em. in diameter, yellow; 
flowers coming into anthesis from the base toward the apex, 
each subtended by a thick brown bract with rounded fim- 
briate margins; calyx 4 mm. long, 3 mm. wide across the 
top, turbinate, glabrous; corolla thick, glabrous, 5 mm. long, 
united, terminated into 5 to 7 obtuse teeth, easily detach- 
ed from the blunt rim of the persistent calyx; stamens about 
six; filaments glabrous, fleshy, erect, 7 mm. long, the dis- 
tal ends much thinner, inserted with the corolla upon the 
disk; anthers versatile, oblong, 2 mm. long, dorsifixed; fer- 
tile pistillate peduncle 2 cm. long, subtended by bracts; ped- 
icels 5 to 8 mm. long, more or less flattened; fruit glo- 
bose in outline, finely rugose, glabrous, dark purple, obscure- 
ly 4-angled; exocarp very thick and leathery; seeds 4, much 
flattened, straw color, nearly orbicular, 3 mm, across. 
Type specimen 7194, A. D. E. Elmer, Palo, Province 
of Leyte, Leyte, January, 1906. 
EBENACE ZS. 
DIOSPYROS Linn. 
Diospyros reticulata Elm. n. sp. 
A 7 m. high bushy tree, with slender glabrous branch- 
lets; wood very hard, white, covered with checked dark brown 
bark. Leaves descending, very chartaceous, strongly condu- 
plicate on the upper side, rich lucid green above, lighter 
green beneath, glabrous, very unequal in size, lanceolate, the 
medium sized blades 12 cm. long and 4 em. wide, margins 
entire, but more or less ruffled, apex acuminate, base obtuse 
to subcuneate, alternatingly scattered along the twigs; petiole 
1 cm. long, glabrous, separating while drying; midvein red- 
dish brown, caniculate above, very prominent beneath; lateral 
nerves 9 to 15 on a side, much less prominent but equally 
plain on both sides, their ends reticulately anastomosing, 
 Scarcely more conspicuous than the very evident reticulations. 
Fruits short pedicellate, solitary or in pairs from the leaf 
axils, subglobose, at least 15 mm. thick when collected, 
