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JANUARY 22, 1912] PALAWAN RUBIACEAE 1329 
Rolfe. This new species has exactly the same leaves as my A. 
benguetensis but its drupes are twice as long and distinctly 
angular. Again, the drupes of number 12968 are the same as 
on my Timonius attenuatus but the leaves are very different. 
Our Javan specimens of T. hirsutiusculus Burck have very short 
fruits and there still remains a question whether my long fruited 
T. attenuatus can be referred to Burck’s species, despite the 
apparent similarity of their leaves. 
DIPLOSPORA DC. 
Diplospora sessile Elm n. sp. 
Strict, erect shrubs; stem terete, 2.5 em. thick, 3 m. high, 
occasionally branched toward the top; wood dingy white, 
quite hard, without odor or taste; bark dull gray or brown, 
thin, relatively deeply checked longitudinally; main branches 
suberect, numerously rebranched toward the distal ends; twigs 
comparatively short, angular and subecompressed, grayish white, 
glabrous, thickened at the leaf scars. Leaves opposite, copiously 
scattered along the numerous branchlets, 1 to 2 em. apart, sessile, 
strictly ascending, flat, rigidly coriaceous, very smooth on both 
sides, lucid, paler green beneath, curing brown, cordately ovate, 
apex obtuse, 3 to 4 cm. long, averaging 2 cm. wide across the 
middle or a trifle below it, entire; midvein quite conspicuous 
beneath toward the base; the lateral pairs 5 to 7, oblique, very 
obscure, reticulately forked at their ends, reticulations obsolete; 
petioles very thick and only the length of the sinus; stipule gla- 
brous, caducous, rigid, brown, acuminately triangular, 4 mm. 
long. Inflorescence erect, axillary, 3-flowered, upon short stout 
bracteate peduncle; interaxillary bracts glabrous, rigid, close 
to the stem, bristly hairy at the base on the near side, 6 mm. 
long, 4 mm. wide across the bars, the upper one half acuminate 
and folded on the ventral side; flowers subsessile or upon short 
thick stalks, subtended by a pair of bracts which are of diverse 
sizes and finely ciliate along the edges; calyx turbinate, pulver- 
ulent, 3 mm. long, the upper one third terminated into 4 sharply 
acuminate segments; buds imbricate, slightly twisted from 
left to right, 3 to 4 mm. long, thick and tubular below the middle, 
