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thin and glabrous pericarps; pyrene single in each cell, 
sharply pointed at base, rounded at apex, ventral side flat, 
dorsal surface 3 to 5-ridged, attached below the middle. 
Type of fruiting specimen 6980, A. D E. Elmer, Mount 
Mariveles, Province of Bataan, Luzon, November, 1904. 
-— + + Drupes 1 to 3, sessile or only shortly pedunculate. 
4. P. subsessiliflora n. sp. Shrub 2 to 3 m. high. 
Leaves opposite, about 1 cm. apart, narrowly elliptic to 
obovate or oblanceolate, glabrous on both sides, 3 to 5 em. 
wide, 8 to 12 cm. long including the glabrous 8 mm. long 
petiole, apex abruptly acute, base cuneate or obtuse, 8 to 
11 pairs of lateral nerves, lower surface grayish white, mem- 
branous; stipules deciduous, leaving a fringe of brown ciliate 
hairs. Fruits terminal, usually with a single short pedice- 
llate one and 1 to 3 subsessily clustered upon a 1 em. long 
peduncle; drupe 2-celled obovoid, glabrous, red when ma- 
ture, 8 mm. long, 6 mm. in diameter, its pericarp rather 
thick; pyrene obtuse at base, truncately rounded at apex, 
prominently 5-ridged or winged; drupes attached near the 
base. 
Type specimen 722, H. N. Whitford, Atimonan, Province 
of Tayabas, Luzon, August to September, 1904. 
+ + + + Drupes in cymose panicles. 
++ Scandent shrubs. 
— Leaves ovate, all opposite, glabrous. 
5. P. manillensis Bartl. 
== = Leaves lanceolate, opposite, glabrous; its eymose panicle 
congested. 
6. P. sarmentosa Bim. 
= = = Leaves lanceolate, pubescent on the nerves beneath, 
the upper ones subverticellate; panicle lax. 
7. P. celastroides Griseb. 
++ ++ Erect shrubs. 
== Dorsal side of pyrene smooth or only slightly ridged. 
g Corolla tubular, 1 em. long. 
8. P. malayana Jack. 
3 3 Corolla campanulate. 
