Marcu 27, 1915] Two Hunprep Twenty Six New SPecies—1 2633 
terete, somewhat crooked, branched from the middle; wood 
whitish, rather hard, without odor or taste, reddish toward 
the heart or center; bark very dull brown, smooth or mi- 
nutely checked; main branches divaricate, laxly rebranched, 
the young portion of the twigs glabrate. Leaves alternate, 
submembranous, horizontally spreading, flat, only a trifle 
darker green on the upper side, glabrous, curing unequally 
green on the upper and lower sides, diverse in size, entire, 
base cuneate to broadly obtuse, abruptly acute to acumi- 
nate or occasionally only sharply pointed, the larger leaves 
oblong, 15 cm long by 5.5 cm wide across the middle, the 
smaller ones obovately oblong; petioles 5 mm long, grooved 
above, glabrous, deep brown when dry; midrib quite prom- 
inent beneath, nearly plane on the upper surface; lateral 
nerves 5 to 7 on each side, ascending and curved especially 
toward their interarching tips, forming a submarginal vein 
5 mm from the edge, cross bars and reticulations very 
faint; stipules not seen. Flowers out of season. Spikes green, 
glabrous, ascending or horizontal and recurved, very slender 
and flexible, solitary or in pairs from the leaf axils or ter- 
minal, 5 to 8 em long, occasionally branched from below 
the middle, bracteate at the base, fruit bearing from near 
.the base; pedicels divaricate, fine, 8 to 5 mm in length, 
strict, subtended at the base by a bract vestige; fruits gla- 
brous, whitish, then roseus and finally atropurpureus, globose, © 
juicy, 5 to 6 mm in diameter in the fresh state, bitterish 
sour, compressed, obscurely and coarsely reticulate in the 
dry state. 
Type specimen number 13549, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 
baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Aug- 
ust, 1912. 
Collected in rich ground of a densely forested flat at 
750 feet above sea. In Manobo “Mataindo.”” 
To be compared with Antidesma nitidum Merr. and An- 
tidesma leptocladum Tul. 
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GS Antidesma obliquicarpum Elm. n. sp. 
A small tree; stem 2.5 dm thick, 8 m high, widely 
branched above the middle; wood sappy white, moderately 
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