Marca 27, 1915] Two Hunprep TwrxrY Six New Species—I 2653 
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7^! Flacourtia sulcata Elm. n. sp. ; 
A shrub-like tree; stem 1 dm thick, 5 m high, branch- 
ed from below the middle, terete; wood moderately hard, 
heavy, turning yellowish after being exposed, quite odorless 
and tasteles; bark smooth and brown on the surface, yellow- 
ish white otherwise; main branches long, rebranched, the 
twigs rigid and dull brown, covered with numerous lighter 
brown lenticels. Leaves drying equally brown on both 
sides, alternate, thinly chartaceous, recurved toward the 
short acute to acuminate apex, base rounded, dull green 
on the upper nearly flat surface, lighter green beneath, 
glabrous except the olivaceus soft pubescent midrib and 
puberulent lateral nerves beneath, oblong, diverse in size, 
the larger average leaves 2.5 dm long by 1 dm wide across 
the middle, margins finely to coarsely crenately dentate or 
serrate; midrid very strong beneath, shallowly grooved along 
the upper side; lateral nerves 9 to 13 on each side of the 
lamina, ascending and usually curved, also prominent be- 
neath and similarly impressed on the upper surface; petiole 
very stout, 1 cm long or less, short pubescent, widely 
grooved above. Flowers not known. Fruits solitary or in 
small cluster from the leaf axils, upon 2 mm long brown 
and glabrous pedicels, globose or nearly so, 1 to 1.25 cm 
in diameter, hard, glabrous, pale green, 4 to 5-ovuled and 
seeded, curing truncate at both ends and 4, 5 or even 6- 
ridged, turning black upon drying. 
Type specimen number 14044, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 
baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Oct: 
ober, 1912. 
Discovered in more or less rocky though well damd 
soil upon the wooded ridge between Duros and `Cawilanan 
peaks at 3500 feet altitude. “‘Aropag’’? in Manobo. ` 
Foliage very similar to Flacourtia euphlebia 'Merr. but 
our material is entirely without the prominent spines on 
the twigs. kno Md 
^ X 
xt Osmelia euspicata Elm. n. sp. 
A small erect tree; stem 7 m high, 1.5 dm thick; wood 
