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6 to 10 flowered fascicles, the glabrous pedicels jointed in the middle, 

 3 mm. long. Calyx glabrous, 4-lobed, the lobes ovate, acute, 1.5 cm. long, 

 with a minute tuft of hairs at the apex. Petals 4, obovate, glabrous, fim- 

 briate, about 2 mm. long. Stamens 8, the filaments about 1 mm. long, 

 the anthers 0.3 mm. long. Ovary subglobose, glabrous; style less than 

 1 mm. long; stigma obscurely lobed. 



Type specimen Mount ilariveles. Province of Bataan, Luzon (1173 Whit- 

 ford) March, lOO."). A tree growing on exposed ridges in the mossy 

 forest at an altitude of about 1,200 ni., related to Gynoiroches axillaris 

 Blume, but difi"ering from that species in its much smaller, few nerved 

 leaves and perfect flowers. 



Pellacalyx pustulata, sp. nov. 



A small tir mcdiuni sized tree with oblong nearly glabrous, acuminate 

 leaves which are pustular-glandular beneath, and axillary, solitary, or 

 fascicled, 5-merous flowers. Branches glabrous, light gray, the younger 

 parts sparingly puberulous. Leaves 9 to 14 cm. long, 4 to 6 cm. wide, 

 subcoriaceous, dark and shining above wlien dry, paler beneath and 

 glabrous, or the midrib sparinglj^ puberulous, the apex abruptly short 

 blunt acuminate, the base acute, the margins entire or distantly, obscurely 

 glandular toothed; nerves 9 to 10 on each side of the midrib, curved- 

 ascending, prominent beneath; petioles stellate puberulous, 1 cm. long; 

 stipules lanceolate, acuminate, 1 cm. long densely puberulous. Flowers 

 white, fragrant, 1 to 5 in each axil, the pedicels slender, glabrous, 1 cm. 

 long, minutely bracteate at the base, jointed at the base of the calyx. 

 C'alA-x ebracteolate, glabrous outside, subcampanulate, 8 mm. long, pilose 

 at the base inside, 5-lobed, the lobes reflexed in anthesis, broadly ovate, 

 acute, 4 mm. long, densely puberulous inside. Petals 5, narrowly obovate, 

 the base narrowed, entire, the apex subacute, fringed, glabrous inside, 

 densely puberulous outside. Stamens 10. inflexed. Ovary inferior, 9-celled; 

 ovules many in each cell, axillary, fascicled. Style 4 mm. l(mg; stigma 

 discoid, 2 mm. in diameter, 9 to 10 lobed. 



Type specimen Lamao River, Province of Bataan, Luzon (3019 Meyer), 

 May 12, 1905, (3040 Borden), same locality. A tree 12 m. high near 

 the river, at an altitude of 300 m. above the sea, not common. Also 

 collected by F. R. Alberto, near Los Banos, Province of Laguna, Luzon, 

 May, 1905. 



This genus has previously not been reported from the Philippines, the 

 present species being the fourth proposed of the genus, Pellacalyx axillaris 

 Korth., and P. saccardianus Schort., being found in tlio Malayan IVninsiihi, 

 and P. cristatus Hemsl., in Borneo. 



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Eugenia bordenii, sp. nov. %Jantbosa. 



A tree reaching a height of 25 m. with elliptical-oblong, to oblanceolate, 

 oblong or obovate, few nerved leaves, 13 cm. long or less, and terminal, rarely 

 also axillary, dense, sessile or short peduncled panicles, the flowers including 

 the stamens about 2 cm. long. Branches uniformly liglit gray, glabrous. 



