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Leaflets of Philippine Botany 



[Vol. VIII, Art. 115 



on their outer Bides, reddish on their angled inner surfaces; 

 calyx persistent, glabrous, rigid and thick, about 7-segmented 

 much smaller and pointed, the inner or larger ones rounded. 



Type specimen number L4078, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

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

 ober, 1912. 



Collected along the heavily forested ridge trail just be- 

 yond the summit of Cawilanan peak at 5000 feet elevation. 

 This also the Manobos call "Sangnanan." 



Differentiated from Adinandra montana Merr. by its 

 shorter branchlets, much shorter bud bracts, -leaves more 

 rounded at the apex, fruits more nearly globose, outer 

 calyx segments or bracts persistent, the inner segments 

 hyaline margined not ciliate. 



Thea reticulata Elm. n. sp. 



Small and slender tree; stem terete or wadded at the 

 base; 2 dm thick, 12 m high; wood soft, yellowish tinged 

 especially the heartwood, odorless, bitterish, light in specific 

 gravity; bark thick, latericius except the greenish gray and 

 brown mottled smooth surface; main limbs from the mid- 

 dle, divaricate, slender, rebranched, the apical young por- 

 tion grayish green or yellowish pubescent. Leaves alternating, 

 chartaceous, deep green above, much paler beneath, flat, 

 horizontal or the terminal ones descending, greenish when 

 dt-y, obovately oblong, entire, the edges brown bordered, 

 much wavy or rugose, obtuse at the base, truncately rounded 

 the at top and terminated by an abrupt sharply pointed 5 

 to 8 mm long recurved apex, the larger ones 2 dm long 

 by 8 cm wide above the middle; midrib much raised be- 

 neath, sparsely strigose along the dull reddish brown nether 

 side, well caniculate and glabrous along the upper lighter 

 green surface; petioles 1 to 1.5 cm long, very thick, ater 

 when dry, flattened along the upper glabrous side, otherwise 

 strigose but ultimately glabra te; lateral nerves numerously 

 interlaced with the conspicuous reticulations especially prom- 

 inent from beneath. Flowers upon 3 to 8 cm long stalks, 

 the shorter occasionally unbranched, the longer only spar- 



