Oct 22, 1919] 



New Woody Plants from Mt. Maquiling 



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tescence lateral, spreading, below the foliage, 3 to 7 cm. 

 fruit long, sparingly branched, all the stalks glabrous 

 and very dark green; fruit ovoidly globose, about as long 

 as their pedicels in the dry wrinkled state, subtended by 

 the yellowish brown rugose disk; seed stone-like, longi- 

 tudinally rugulose. 



Type specimen number 18039, A. D. E. Elmer, Los 

 Baflos (Mt. Maquiling), Province of Laguna, Luzon, June- 

 July, 1917. Found on wood covered cliffs in the socalled 

 crater. 



Allied to Elaeocarpus gitingensis Elm. yet primarily dis- 

 tinguished from it by the different leaf cut, by the in- 

 frutescence being chiefly below the foliage and by the 

 much longer fruiting pedicels. 



EUPHORBIACBAE 



Antidesma fusicarpum Elm. n. sp. 



A suberect and laxly branched shrub up to 3 m. high. 

 Twigs slender, the apical portion soft dull brown pu- 

 bescent. Leaves alternate, rather few from the apical 

 ends of the lateral branchlets, upon very slender simi- 

 larly pubescent petioles up to 2 cm. in length; stipules 

 5 to 8 mm. long, very linear and usually curved, ca- 

 ducous, grayish tomentose, arising from the side of the 

 branch; blades membranous, paler green and puberulent 

 beneath, becoming glabrate above, oblong or ovately 

 elongated, the smaller ones broadly lanceolate, 10 to 15 

 cm. long by 3 to 5 cm. wide, gradually tapering to the 

 acuminate point, the apex very finely mucronate, base 

 obtusely rounded or truncately so, entire; midvein quite 

 conspicuous beneath and pubescent, the 5 to 7 pairs of 

 lateral nerves oblique and somewhat curved, reticulations 

 obscure. Infrutescence spicate, slender, usually curved, 

 solitary from the ends of the leaf bearing short lateral 

 branchlets as well as from the main branch itself, equalling 

 the foliage; peduncle and rachis yellowish gray pubescent, 

 with bract vestiges; pedicels divaricate or at right angles 

 to the rachis, solitary or 2 or 3-clustered, 3 to 4 mm. long, 

 slender, sprinkled with fine hairs, subtended by similar 

 bract vestiges, subpersistent, terminated by the small 

 minutely 5-toothed woolly and grayish white calyx; carpels 

 fusiform when dry at least, 5 to 7 mm. long, subterete 

 or slightly compressed, coarsely rugose, glabrate, ter- 

 minated by a short terminal minutely hairy stigma, pale 

 green to pink and short ellipsoid or globose in the fresh 

 state, juicy and sour. 



