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branched toward the base, glabrous, all the stalks pale green 

 and glabrous; pedicels 5 mm. long or less, alternating, leav- 

 ing grayish scars after falling; fruits ovoidiy ellipsoid, light 

 green, 7.5 mm, long by 6 mm. thick below the middle, 

 brown when dry, apex blunt and terminated by the light 

 gray minute 5 calyx segments, with a single smooth yellow- 

 ish stone seed . 



Type specimen number 12979, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

 Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, April, 1911. 



As near to S. polyandra (Blco.) Brand as to any of our 

 Philippine species. 



THEACEAE 

 Thea megacarpa Elm. n. sp. 



A strict slen<ler tree; stem terete, 1 dm. thick, straight, 

 7 m. high or higher; wood hard and quite brittle, dingy 

 white on the outside, the central bulk melleus; bark smooth, 

 yellowish gray, forming an elongated crown toward the .top 

 only, freely rebranched; twigs terete, brownish, glabrous and 

 smooth. Leaves ascending or horizontal, flat, rigidly coriaceous, 

 very deep green above, much paler beneath, curing green on 

 both sides, well scattered aiternatingly, oblongish or subelliptic, 

 with obtuse to subacutely pointed ends, margins entire or 

 very minutely apiculate toward the apex and in the dry 

 state somewhat curved upon the lower side, glabrous, ap- 

 pearing puberulent beneath, 11 to 16 cm. long, 4 to 6 cm. 

 wide across the middle or a trifle below it; petiole 1 to 1.5 

 cm. long, deeply grooved along the upper flattened portion, 

 leaving conspicuous scars after falling; raidvein stout beneath, 

 deeply caniculate along the upper surface; lateral nerves obscure 

 beneath but evident on the upper side, oblique, rather fine, 

 reticulately united with their ends, from 6 to 9 pairs; bud 

 bracts strongly imbricate, glabrous except the finely ciliate 

 margins, drying blackish brown, coriaceous. Fruits terminal, 

 usually solitary, subpendant from 1 to 2 cm. long ligneus 

 stalks, compressed globose, 5 cm. across, hard, isabellinus, 

 dehiscing into 3 thick carpels from apex toward base, puberulent 

 in the young state, subtended by the thick finely hairy 3 



