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Type specimen 7960, A. D. E. Elmer, Mount Banahao, 
Province of Tayabas, Luzon, April, 1906. Inhabiting the 
woods at 500 meters. Also my number 7049 from Palo, 
Leyte. 
Lasianthus morus n. sp. A finely branched 3 m. high 
sbrub; branches slender, covered with smooth bark; wood 
solid. Leaves opposite, 4 to 7 em. apart, submembranous, 
lanceolate, apex slenderly acuminate, base acute or cuneate, 
2 to 3 em. wide, 1 to 1.5 dm. long including the 5 mm. 
long pubescent petiole, margins entire or subrugose, glabrous 
on the upper side, short olivaceous pubescent on the reticu- 
lations and nerves beneath; all the nerves prominent beneath, 
the 7 to 9 lateral pairs strongly ascendingly curved, reticu- 
lations parallel and at right angle with the midvein; stipule 
short pubescent, 3 to 4 mm. long, sharply acuminate. Flowers 
white, mostly 1 to 3-clustered in the lower leaf axils or 
in the axils of their scars, arising from very short scaly 
and pubescent tubercles; calyx 3 to 4 mm. long, olivaceous 
pubescent, the upper half perceptibly enlarged, its rim 4- 
apiculate; corolla 8 mm. long, half divided into 4 segments, 
short pubescent except at the basal interior; segments oblong, 
obtuse at the apex and terminated by a short deflexed hairy 
appendage from the ventral apical side; stamens 4, alternating 
with the segments and inserted upon the hairy throat; anther 1.5 
mm. long, linear; filament glabrous, brown, 0.5 mm. long; style 
included, erect, subglabrous, gradually thickening toward the 
apex; berries coal black when mature, without odor, brown 
pubescent in the young state but soon becoming glabrous, 
ellipsoid, 4 to 5 mm. in diameter, 7 mm. in length, with 
the persistent calyx rim; ovary 4-celled, 1-seeded in each; 
stone 1 mm. in thickness, 4 mm. long, subterete or ob- 
seurely 3-sided, black, rugose. 
Type specimen 7050, A. D. E. Elmer, Palo, Leyte, Jan- 
uary, 1906. An undershrub of wooded ravines along the 
Bafigon River. 
