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elliptic or broadly oblanceolate, glabrous above, 5 em. wide, 
15 em. long including the thick and pubescent 5 mm. long 
petiole, acute, or acuminate at apex, base obtuse or attenuate, 
paler beneath, more or less puberulous on the entire under 
surface but especially along the midvein and on the 7 to 9 
pairs of lateral nerves; stipule yellowish pubescent, 4 mm. 
long, sharply acuminate. —Infrutescence axillary, usually 
1 to 3-elustered upon short branches.or tubercles; pedicels 
5 mm. long, olivaceous pubescent, subtended by short acutely 
pointed bracts; mature fruit subglobose, pubescent, 8 mm. 
in diameter, yellow, 2-celled; tubular calyx persistent, 5 
mm. long, pubescent on the exterior, truncate or 5-toothed; 
seeds 3 to 5 in each cell, black, pitted on the exterior 
convex surface, inner surface smooth and angular. 
Type specimen 3326, E. D. Merrill, Puerta Galera, Min- 
doro, October, 1903. 
++ ++ Leaves 4 to 6-nerved, sharply acuminate, lanceolate or 
oblanceolate. 
3. R. samalensis n. sp. Small tree, with smooth gra- 
yish white branches with yellowish canescent tips. Leaves 
scattered, opposite, submembranous, glabrous above, subglab- 
rous beneath except the finely pubescent midvein and lateral 
nerves, elliptic to broadly lanceolate or oblanceolate, slend- 
erly acuminate at the apex, obtuse at the base, the larger 
ones 12 em. long including the 3 mm. long and densely 
short pubescent petiole, 4 cm. wide, the 5 to 7 pairs of nerves 
prominent beneath; stipule setaceously acuminate, pubescent, 
5 mm. long. Flowers white, very fragrant, 1 to 3 in axil- 
lary fascicles, upon 5 mm. long pubescent pedicels; calyx 
cartilaginous, pubescent on the outside, glabrous on the inside, 
cylindric or subturbinate, 15 mm. long; segments 5, about 7 
mm. long, linear or laciniate, with broad bases, apex minutely 
pointed, finely strigose; corolla glabrous, white, about 3 cm. 
long; its segments quite thick and twisted in the bud, ovate 
near the base, long acuminate above the middle, glabrous 
on both sides, 15 mm. long, irregularly spreading; tube 15 
mm. in length, campanulate toward the apex, glabrous with- 
out, pilose within; stamens 4, alternate with the corolla 
segments, sessily inserted upon the throat; anthers introrse, 
