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Marca 27, 1915] Two HcNpkED Twusry Six New SpPrecies—I 2623 
Palawan is Vidal’s species. My own collection from Palawan 
was sent out under a new name of Wormia. The flowers of 
both genera are the same but the fruits are entirely dif- 
ferent. Both of our endemic species of Wormia have yellow 
flowers and we know by their fruits td belong to this genus. 
Dillenia mindanaensis Elm. is the first species we know 
in the Philippines with yellow flowers. Old inflorescences 
of Wormia can be distinguished from that of Dilienia by the 
slender elongated more orless zigzag stalk, in the Palawan 
specimens often reaching a yard in length. 
EBENACEAE 
t 7. Diospyros hypoleuca Elm. n. sp. 
Middle sized tree or larger; trunk 6 dm thick, 16 m 
high, terete and straight, somewhat wadded toward the base, 
forming a fine bole; wood yellowish tinged, upon exposure 
turning bright yellow, moderately soft, tasteless, with a 
faint unpleasant odor; bark dull brown, sealing in small 
plates, otherwise yellow | or of the wood color; branches main- 
ly toward the top, spreading, ultimately laxly rebranched; 
twigs dull green, slightly ascending, glabrous, drying dull 
brown. Petiole alternate, very pale green, of the same color 
as the twigs in the dry state, glabrous, deeply caniculate 
along the upper side, 1 to 1.5 cm in length, usually with 
a bud or an old fruiting pedicel in their axils; blade ovate- 
ly elongated, descending, glaucous white beneath even so 
in the dry state, flat or shallowly curved upon the upper 
bright deep green surface, submembranous, edges subentire 
or obscurely apiculate and subinvolute in the dry state, the 
marginal portion finely wavy or rugose, the average ones 1 
dm long by 4 cm wide below the middle, obtusely round. 
ed at the base, gradually extended into the acuminate apical 
more or less recurved point; midrid drying deep brown, 
grooved along the upper side; lateral nerves 5 to 7 on each 
side, very oblique, nearly straight, relatively faint, their tips 
^ anastomosing, reticulations numerous and quite evident from 
. both sides under a lens. Flowers not seen. Fruits solitary 
or seldom in M. mica the lower leaf axils or Pon the — 
