Marca 27, 1915) Two HuxbreD Twenty Six New Sprcres—I 2581 
glabrous, oblongish, drying dull grayish green, gradually ta- 
pering into the acute to acuminate apex, the acute or ob- 
tuse base. entire, otherwise the margins are obscurely cren- 
ately serrate, the larger lamina 12.5 cm long and 4.5 cm 
wide across the middle; midvein prominent beneath; the 5 
to 7. lateral pairs of nerves oblique, relatively inconspicuous, 
coarsely anastomosing above the middle, reticulations also 
coarse and more plainly visible from the upper side; 
petiole 5 to 7.5 mm long, glabrous, channelled along the 
upper side. Young infrutescence lateral or occasionally ax- 
illary; peduncle very slender, green, glabrous, 3 to 8 cm 
long, subpendulous, usually subtended by an apiculate bract, 
bearing few to several scattering bracts toward the distal end, 
usually terminated by a single fruit; fruit glabrous, sub- 
globose, subtended by the persistent calyx rim, 1.5 cm in 
diameter, turning yellowish red when mature. 
Type specimen number 6644, A. D. E. Elmer, Lamao 
(Mt. Mariveles), Province of Bataan, Luzon, November, 1904. 
Collected along a creek depression in the woods at about 
2000 feet altitude of the mountain after which it is named. 
Evidently not the same as our common Evonymus javan- 
icus Blm. 
COMBRETACEAE 
27 Terminalia merrillii Elm. n. sp. 
A large tree; trunk 1 m thick, 15 m high, terete, with its 
main branches toward the top and widely spreading; wood 
moderately hard, the central portion murky white, odorless 
and tasteless; bark thick, yellowish, smoothish; twigs gray, 
quite numerous, ascendingly curved, terete, the young tips 
sparsely pubescent. Leaves crowded toward the ends of the 
branchlets, curvingly folded upon the upper much deeper 
green surface, sublucid on both sides, drying nearly fuligineus, 
glabrous, entire, obovate, 1 dm long by 4 cm wide above 
the middle, rounded at the apex, broadly cuneate toward 
the base, occasionally much smaller; midrib raised beneath, 
blackish, flat on the upper surface; lateral nerves strongly 
ascending, 5 or 6 pairs, similarly prominent beneath, darker 
