DECEMBER 14, 1908] TARER Score or New PLANTS 507 
green, quite hard, shining, 4-celled, with 1 seed in each cell, 
apex short apiculate; seeds hard, smooth, black, 1 cm. long, 
the 2 inner sides flat or only slightly concave, the dorsal 
side convex, attached to a central placenta by the ventral 
edge toward the base; calyx persistent, the basal one third 
united, rigid, glabrous, spreading; the 3 to 4 lobes broadly 
rounded, the free portion subrecurved in fruit, occasionally 
unequal in size, about 6 mm. across. 
Type specimen 9242, A. D. E. Elmer, dico Province 
of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. 
It was discovered in dense shrubberies of pcnc of 
grassy hillocks near the Botocan falls on the trail towards 
Louisiana. 
Its affinities are with D. pilosanthera Blco. and D. biflora 
of the same author. It is, however, nearest related to the 
latter, but is not a 10 meter high tree; our leaves are without 
glands and their petioles can hardly be described as very 
Short, nor are the calyces (of at least the fruits) campanulate. 
Diospyros brideliaefolia Elm. n. sp. 
Tall tree, 18 m. high; stem 4.5 dm. thick; branches 
chiefly at the top, quite crooked; branchlets lax, the young 
twigs glabrous; wood moderately soft, easily cutting, white 
throughout but upon being exposed its color. changes to a 
carrot yellow and has also that odor; bark smooth, but oc- 
casionally checked longitudinally, mottled. Leaves equally 
smooth on both sides, submembranous, light green above, 
glaucous green beneath or occasionally with a tinge of yellow, 
descending, nearly flat or curvingly conduplicate on the up- — 
per side, margins entire or finely crinkled especially toward - 
the apex, broadly lanceolate to oblong, apex acute, base _ 
obtuse, much varying in size, the larger blades 12 cm. long, _ 
5 em. wide across the middle, alternate; petiole 1 to 2 em. _ 
long, glabrous; nerves conspicuous beneath, sparsely strigose | 
with short yellowish hairs, the 5 to 7 lateral pairs ascend- - 
ing, reticulately anastomosing. Flowers solitary or several from : 
the leaf axils, along the leafy twigs; calyx subsessile, usual- - 
ly subtended by a small thick bracteole, upon a very — short 
peduncle; segments 4, green, rigid, yellowish brown pubes- _ 
cent on both sides, united at the base, broadly obovate, a 
