1512 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Art. 75 
Gathered in moist alluvial soil of a somewhat swampy wooded 
flat at 500 feet altitude. 
At once distinguished from L. amara (Blco.) Merr. by the 
leaf reticulations. 
Glycosmis greenei Elm. n. sp. 
An erect undershrub; stem 3 to 5 cm. thick, 3 m. high, its 
branches arising from about the middle; wood dirty white or even 
yellowish toward the center, slightly fetid, tasteless, rather soft; 
bark very smooth and dull brown; branches few, lax and slender, 
scattering, even the young portion glabrous. Leaves minutely 
punctate, horizontal, the acute or acuminate apex recurved, gla- 
brous, coriaceous, dark green above, much lighter green beneath, 
curing dull green on both sides, the very young leaves obscurely 
pulverulent and dull brown when dry, mostly ovately oblong or 
oblongish elliptic, base broadly obtuse, margins entire, the average 
blades 1 dm. long by 4 em. wide across the middle or a trifle below 
it, alternate or appearing compound and 3 to 5-foliate; petiole 
5 mm. long, thickened, furrowed above, glabrous, blackish brown 
when dry; midvein bold beneath, plane above; the lateral nerves 
obscure, strict, suboblique, about 7 to 10 pairs or even fewer, 
more or less united into a submarginal line 3 mm. from the edge, 
reticulations evident. Inflorescence 3 to 5 em. long, erect, rigid, 
leaf opposed, strict; peduncle minutely pulverulent, brown, 
stout, angular or compressed, 1 to 3 em. long; branches toward 
the distal end only short, thick, subtended by bracts, similar in 
vestiture; calyx 1.5 mm. deep, 2.5 mm. across the 5-dentate top, 
the basal two thirds united, densely reddish brown hairy on the 
outside, the teeth very shallow and rigid; petals cremeus, also 5, 
free, caducous, subequal, 3 mm. long, the sides more or less folded 
upon the upper side, oblong, glabrous, densely sprinkled with 
purplish black, obtuse at apex, truncate at base; stamens 10, 
included by the petals; filaments glabrous, much compressed and 
appearing petaloid, 2 mm. long, the basal portion subhyaline, 
otherwise spotted as the petals; anthers yellow, 0.75 mm. 
long, truncately ellipsoid, notched or emarginate at base, mu- 
cronate; ovary grayish, the sessile stigma very dark brown; 
fruits young, shining green, globosely compressed, 2-celled and 
2-seeded ; 4 
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