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eral nerves 7 to 11 pairs, divaricate, their tips interarching 

 and anastomosing, reticulations scarce toward the middle or 

 midrib; petiole with petiolule ranging from 1 to 3 cm 

 long, the basal two thirds terete, the apical or petiolule 

 portion grooved along the upper side, the connective por- 

 tion somewhat thickened and darker green, the petiole por- 

 tion enlarged at the base and leaving large scars after fall- 

 ing. Panicle 5 cm long or shorter, solitary and mainly 

 from the upper leaf axils, glabrate; branchlets from below 

 the middle, opposite, divaricate, usually subtended by ca- 

 ducous and glabrous bracts; pedicel 1.5 mm long, easily sep- 

 arating, subtended by 3 apical bracts, all glabrous; buds 

 ovoidly ellipsoid, 2 mm long; calyx punctate, 1 mm long, 

 erect, united at the base, terminated by 4 acute teeth-like 

 segments, also glabrous; corolla twice as long, equally as 

 many, alternating with the calyx segments, oblongish, val- 

 vate but separating from the base toward the apex, obscurely 

 punctate; stamens 6, sterile or nearly so; filament 1 mm 

 long, linear, flattened, subhyaline, terminated by a very 

 minute introrse basifixed anther, all glabrous, ovary short 

 obovoid, glabrous, 4-lobulate; style very short, the brown 

 stigma comparatively large and its 4 lobes rotately spread- 

 ing, also glabrous. Infiutescence 3 to 8 cm long, branched 

 from near the middle, divaricate; fruits dark green, con- 

 spicuously reticulate in the dry state, usually 1 to 3-clustered, 

 subglobose though obscurely compressed, 4 mm across, per- 

 sistent, apically dehiscent; seeds shining and nearly black. 

 Type specimen number 13844, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

 baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Sept- 

 ember, 1912. 



Discovered in stony ground of a very steep wooded 

 slope of Cawilanan peak at 4500 feet altitude. "Leiva-an" 

 is the Manobo name. 



This is at once distinguished from Melicope monophylla 

 Merr. and from its new variety glabra by its glabrous and 

 smaller leaves. 



Melicope monophylla glabra Elm. n. var. 



A small tree-like shrub; stem 13 cm thick, 5 to 7 m 

 high, crooked, subterete; wood faintly yellowish tinged through- 



