Marcu 27, 1915] Two Hunprep Twenty Six New Sprecirs—I 2635 
lobed and pistils more lateral. 
66 Antidesma urdanetense Elm. n. sp. 
A small undershrub; stem somewhat crooked and 
irregularly round, 7 cm thick, 5 m high, branched from 
the middle; wood heavy, hard, nearly avellaneus, brit- 
tle, odorless and tasteless; bark very thin, smooth and 
yellowish white; main branches ascending, repeatedly re- 
branched; twigs lax, also crooked, yellowish gray, the young 
tips dark brown puberulent. Leaves horizontal or descend- 
ing, flat, lucid on both sides, alternating, the acute to acu- 
minate apex recurved, broadly obtuse and occasionally a trifle 
inequilateral toward the base, the entire margins wavy, 
narrowly oblong or the smallest ones broadly oblanceolate, 
unequally brown on both sides when dry, much lighter 
green and glabrate beneath, exceedingly variable in size, 
the average ones 1.5 dm long by 4.5 cm wide at the 
middle region; midrib prominent and in the young state 
puberulent beneath, plane above; lateral nerves 7 to 11 
pairs, oblique and nearly straight, their tips ascending and 
conspicuously interarching a few mm below the edge, more 
numerous toward the base, reticulations fine and equally 
visible from both sides; petiole 5 to 8 mm long, brown 
puberulent when young, thick and yellowish gray scurfy; 
stipule 5 mm long at least, narrow and setaceously point- 
ed, also puberulent, deciduous. Flowers odorless, numerous 
above the middle, scattered below it, yellowish and with 
age becoming reddish tinged; spikes 1 dm long, puberulent, 
Solitary or in pairs, few braeteate at and toward the base; 
ovaries short grayish pubescent, sessile, subtended by minute 
thin and brown  glabrate bracteoles, bearing the 3 brown 
colored and recurved sessile stigmas. Fruiting spike twice 
as long, glabrate, pendant or recurved, roughened with the 
lighter colored scars; seeds ovate from the side view, flat- 
tish, slightly rugose in the fresh state, green, glabrous, 1 
em long or less, 5 to 7 mm wide below the middle, sessile, 
easily falling while drying, conspicuously reticulate or nerv- 
e ed on the sides when dry, curing brown or dark brown 
to nearly black, usually subtended at the base by the short 
