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brate; leaflets thinly chartaceous, also glabrous, green 

 on both side but a trifle paler beneath, subopposite, upon 

 5 to 8 mm. long much thickened petiolules, the basal 

 ones reduced, from 5 to 9 widely scattering pairs, the 

 larger ones 3 dm. iu length and 8 cm. in width, narrowly 

 oblong, those af the base ovately oblong, acuminate, 

 base broadly obtuse, entire; midrib much raised on the 

 under side, straw brown, smooth, with 10 to 15 pairs 

 of prominent ascending nerves whose ends are strongly 

 upwardly curved, reticulations coarse and quite evident. 

 Infrutescence axillary, up to 2 dm. in length, dirty brown 

 pubescent, alternately and divaricately branched from 

 near the base; the lower branches longer than the upper 

 ones, all relatively short, unbranched and fruit or at 

 least flower bearing throughout; flowers irregularly 

 scattered from all sides of the spike, subsessil^, sub- 

 tended by persistent hairy bracts; calyx composed of 5 

 rotund segments, grayish tomentose except the membra- 

 nous margins, 3 mm. long. Fruit dark velvety brown 

 or felt covered, usually 2-seeded and didymous, 2 cm. 

 across, occasionally 1 -seeded and nearly globose, very 

 short pedicelled, subtended by the small calyx; exocarp 

 thin and apparently dry, the partition membranous; seed 

 piano convex. 8 mm. wide, shining and brown. 



Type specimen number 18355. A. D. E. Elmer, "Los 

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

 July, 1917. In dry or well drained forests of low altitude. 



Bureau of Science number 12492 determined by Dr. 

 Radlkofer as his Lepisanthes eriolepis has cinnamon brown 

 fruits which are twice as large and nearly always globose, 

 not didymous. 



SAPOTAOEAE 



Palaquium montana Elm. n. sp. 



A gnarly tree- Main branches crooked; the twigs 

 relatively short and rigid, 8 to 18 cm. thick, roughened 

 by the old leaf scars, terminated by a crown of stout 

 sharply acuminate brown 1 cm. long bracts. Leaves 

 alternatingly crowded from the ends of the branchlets. 

 upon stout brown 5 to 8 mm. long petioles, rigidly co- 

 riaceous, lucid and dark green above, subacute to obtusely 

 rounded, oblong or more often obovately oblong, the 

 larger ones 6 by 16 cm. but frequently smaller, somewhat 

 narrowed toward the [base which is obtusely rounded 

 or subauriculate, lower side velvety brown 'or grayish 

 when old; the stout midrib flat above and raised beneath, 



