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Linociera coriacea Vid. , 



This very little known species has large, thickly coria- 

 ceous leaves. 



Linociera obovata Merr. ms. 



This remarkable species is only known by a specimen 

 collected at San Antonio, province of Laguna, Luzon. 



Linociera rubrovenia Elm. 



In subalpine regions of the middle and southern Phil- 

 ippines. Quite distinct in its conspicuous reddish brown veins. 



Linociera nervosa Elm. n. sp. 



Slender and medium sized tree; stem 6 dm. thick, 14 

 m. higl), branched from the middle; wood moderately hard, 

 white, odorless and without taste; bark smooth, grayish 

 white and mottled; branches divaricate, laxly rebranched and 

 spreading, the green twigs glabrous and somewhat flattened. 

 Leaves curing brown, opposite, well scattering, horizontal or 

 descending, coriaceous or rather subchartaceous, glabrous, 

 dark lucid green on the upper surface, duller and paler be- 

 neath, entire, elliptically oblong or ovately elliptic, abruptly 

 acute or even obtuse at the apex, base obtuse or occasionally 

 broadly rounded, the average size of the lamina 1 dm. long 

 and 4.5 cm. wide; petiole 1.5 cm. long, also glabrous, deeply 

 channelled along the upper side; bud bract conspicuous, 

 subterete, 7.5 mm. long, 4 mm. thick below the middle, 

 ovoidly conical; midvein brown, edged; the lateral nerves 5 

 to 7 pairs, equally visible from both sides, oblique and 

 only sligfitly curved, tips anantomosing, reticulations numerous 

 and a trifle more evident from the upper surface. Infrutescence 

 axillary, suberect; stalks 1 or 3 or even 5 in a cluster, 5 

 to 8 cm. long or less, terete, glabrous, stout, 2 to 3-short 

 branched from the middle or about it, the shortest ones 

 frequently unbranched, bearing at their extremities 1 to 2 

 or occasionally 3 fruits; true pedicel terete, thicker than 

 the branchlets, 5 mm. long; fruits hard, bright shining 



