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APRIL 20, 1912] Two Score or New PLANTS 1481 
ravine near a streamlet. The Visayan on Sibuyan island call 
it “Tapmis.” 
Our specimen is exactly matched by L. Garcia’s number 40 
from Baler collected in August of 1902. Like many other species 
in my collection it distinctly shows a distribution from Palawan 
to northeastern Luzon by way of Sibuyan. 
MYRTACEAE. 
Decaspermum grandiflorum Elm. n. sp. 
A shrub, 4 m. high; wood brownish, moderately hard, odor- 
less and tasteless, quite heavy; bark smooth, grayish brown, 
cinnamon brown on the branchlets; twigs lax, numerous, form- 
ing dense bushes, terete, the young portion appressed cinereous. 
Leaves numerous, ascending, submembranous, slightly folded 
upon the glabrous upper darker green and lucid surface, be- 
neath densely punctate, in the young state sparsely strigose, 
oppositely scattered, the sharply acuminate or caudate apex 
recurved, broadly obtuse at the base, the entire margins 
slightly recurved in the dry state, broadly obtuse at the 
base, broadly lanceolate or ovately so, curing paler brown 
beneath, the normal lamina 5 em. long, 1.75 cm. wide a 
trifle below the middle, those toward the inflorescence much 
smaller and with bract-like leaves intermixed; midrib very 
evident beneath, strigose at first on both sides, glabrous 
when old, the lateral nerved very obscure, reticulations 
none; petiole ultimately glabrous, 5 mm. long, slender, canicu- 
late along its upper side. Inflorescence terminal or rather from 
the uppermost leaf axils; peduncle strict, ascending, cinereously 
strigose, the lower ones longer and occasionally rebranched, 
solitary from each axil, subtended by foliaceous bracts, those 
bracts subtending the upper or secondary branches much re- 
duced; pedicel 1 to 1.5 cm. long or longer, strict, slender, sparsely 
cinereous when old; calyx urn shaped, subtended by 2 bracts, 
6 mm. long, the basal united one half very finely appressed cine- 
reous; the 5 triangular lobes pellucid punctate, glabrous except 
the very finely ciliate margins, ultimately reflexed, 3 mm. long 
and about as wide at the base; the 2 subtending bracts linear, 
