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glabrous, acuminate leaves, and terminal, few flowered pedunclcd corjTnbs, 

 the flowers white, about 12 mm. long. Branches light gray, glabrous, the 

 young branchlets ferruginous pubescent, soon becoming glabrous. Leaves 

 opposite, sometimes subverticillate at the upper nodes, subcoriaceous, 6 to 

 10 cm. long, 2 to 4 cm. wide, the very young ones slightly pubescent, 

 especially on the midrib, soon V)econiing glabrous, tapeiing to the cuneate 

 base, the apex rather abruptly short acuminate, the margins entire or 

 slightly undulate, the upper surface shining, the lower surface paler, dull 

 or slightly siiining; nerves about 8 on each side of the midrib, obscure 

 above, anastomosing, the reticulations beneath distinct, fine; petioles about 

 1 cm. long, at first ferruginous pubescent, soon becoming glabrous. Inflores- 

 cence terminal, the peduncle ferruginous pubescent, becoming glabrous, 

 about 5 cm. long, the lowei- branches 1.5 cm. long, 3-flowered. Flowers 

 white, fragrant, the pedicels slender, somewhat pubescent. 5 nuu. long, the 

 bracteoles about 2 mm. long, linear. Calj'x 4.5 mm. long, sligiitly pubes- 

 cent or nearly glabrous, the lobes acute or acuminate, ovale lanceolate. 

 Petals 12 mm. long. 2.5 mm. wide, abruptly acute, glabrous, 3-nerved, 

 somewhat united below forming a tube, spreading above. Antheis nearly 

 3 mm. long, dark brown. Ovary lanceolate-oblong, about uiiii. long, 

 many ovuled, densely pubescent, the style glabrous, about 4 nuu. long. 

 Fruit 2-valved, yellow, oblong, somewhat compressed. :i cm. long, 15 to 18 

 mm. wide when mature, glabrous, rugose when dry, the base rounded or 

 subcordate, the apex obtuse, short apiculate. Seeds many, oblong or 

 rounded, flattened, red, 5 to (5 mm. in diameter. 



Type specimens from Mount Mariveles, Province of Bataan, Luzon: 

 (2G1G, 2795 Meyer), February, 1905 (flower); (6902 Elmer), November, 

 1904 (fruit). The following specimens are also referred here: Province of 

 Benguet. Luzon (5832, 6372 Elmer), May. 1904; Province of Principe, 

 Baler (1113 Merrill), October. 1902. 



This is apparently a distinct species, and altliough no specimens of the 

 plant identified by Vidal as Pittosporuin (jlubratitm are extant, and iiis 

 drawing represents only the fruit, still the latter agrees well with that of 

 the present species, and accordingly J'itlosporum ylahratinii Vidal, non 

 Lindl.. is referred here. Vidal's drawing represents a 2-valve(l fruit, while 

 according to the description, the fruit of Pittofipoitim filahratum is 3-valved. 

 F.-Villar's record of I'itiosporum gtahratum from the Philippines was based 

 on a specimen in the herbarium of Vidal, from Iloilo. Panay. evidently the 

 -aiue specimen from which Vidal's drawing wa-; made. In his "Revision" 

 \'idal cites no specimen of PUfosiponnii t'n>iii Panay. and il is accordingly 

 jirobable that the spccinu-n from which the drawing was made was destroyed 

 before tlie publication of the latter work. 



This species reaches a diameter of about 10 cm. growing on Mount 

 .Mariveles on exposed ridges in the mossy forest at an altitude of about 

 '.too 111., and in I'xMigiict iu >lia«l(Ml ravines at an altitude <pf ab«nit 1.500 m. 



(3) Pittosporum resiniferum Heuisl. Kew. Bull. 1894:344. 1S!)4. 



Tliis species was liasc.l on No. 113(1 Vidal. Province of Benguet. Luzon, 

 and is also representccl by .Vos. 2(li»9. 2(tH» l.ohcr. accciding to a manuscript 



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