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Type specimen of the flower 669, E. D. Merrill, Halsey, 
Culion, February, 1903; fruiting specimen 1226, Forestry 
Bureau, collected by R. Garcia, Lugin, Mindoro, January, 
1903. 
++ ++ Flowers axillary, solitary or in few flowered more slenderly 
pedunculate cymes. 
— Apex of leaves obtuse or rounded. 
5. G. elliptica n. sp. Shrubby, 4 to 6 m. high; twigs 
smooth, stout, compressed. Leaves opposite, subcoriaceous, 
glabrous, 5 to 7-nerved, elliptie to oblong, 6 em. wide, 12 
em. long, with a very short and thick petiole, obtuse, rounded 
at the apex, base obtuse or acute; stipule coriaceous, glabrous, 
subpersistent, broad at the base, obtuse at apex. Inflores- 
cence axillary, long pedunculate, solitary or in cymes of 3 
to 5 flowers; pedicels and peduncles glabrous, with flattened 
ends; pedicels 1 to 2 cm. long, much shorter than the 
peduncles, subtended by 2 persistent bracts; calyx cup shap- 
ed, 5 mm. in diameter, glabrous, terminated by 5 short 
and truncate segments; corolla 1 cm. long, glabrous on the 
outer surface, densely woolly in the vicinity of the throat; 
segments 5, broadly obovate, 9 mm. long; stamens equal in 
number, inserted upon the throat; anthers linear, 5 mm. long, 
obtuse at apex, truncately sagittate at base; filaments very 
short, pubescent, attached to the middle dorsal portion of 
the anther; style equalling the corolla, glabrous at the base, 
the 2 cleft arms densely covered with woolly hairs; fruit 
leathery, ellipsoid, 15 mm. long, 10 mm. in diameter, crown- 
ed by the persistent calyx tube, 1-celled; pericarp about 
2 mm. thick; seeds numerous, brown, flattened, with round- 
ed edges, not pitted but surface finely striate, 2 mm. long, 
in shape like the achene of a buttercup, chiefly embedded 
on the inner surface of the pericarp. 
. Type specimen 705, H. N. Whitford, Atimonan, Prov- 
ince of Tayabas, Luzon, August to September, 1904. 
— = Apex of leaves acute. 
6. G. acutifolia n. sp. Small tree; twigs smooth, brown, 
usually compressed. Leaves distichous, opposite, 3 to 5 cm. 
apart, submembranous, glabrous on both sides, the upper 
ones much reduced, the larger ones 6 cm. wide, 16 cm. long 
including the very short petiole, the smaller one lanceolate 
