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tibus; glandibus ol)longo-ovoideis. 2.3 ciu longis apiee rotumlatiS;, breviter 

 apiciilatis. 



A tree about 30 m high, ghibrous throughout, except the cups (in- 

 florescence unknown), branches terete, lenticellate, light-gray. Leaves 

 thickly coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate or broadly lanceolate, 7 to 11 cm 

 long, 2.5 to 4 cm wide, entire, the apex strongly acuminate, acumen 

 blunt, often slightly falcate, base decurrent-acuminate, both surfaces shin- 

 ing, the lower slightly paler than the upper; nerves 8 on each side of 

 the midrib, oblique, rather distinct beneath, nearly straight, more or 

 less curved near the margins, not anastomosing, the reticulations fine, 

 indistinct; petioles 1.5 to 2 cm long. Flowers unknown. Cup including 

 the stout stipe 1.5 cm high, inclosing only about the lower one-fourth 

 of the glans, 2 cm in diameter, glabrous and shining inside, outside 

 cinereous-pubescent, lamellae about 5 the lower ones distant, the upper 

 close, denticulate. Glans oblong-ovoid, 2.3 cm long, about 1.8 cm in 

 diameter, glabrous, apex rounded, apiculate. 



Luzox, Province of Benguet, Pauai, For. Bur. 18380 Alvarez, January, 1909: 

 Province of Abra, For. Bur. IJ/GO.j Darling, February, 1909, altitude 1,400 to 2,000 

 m. in forests; known in Benguet as TicUck, and in Abra as Bultioc. 



A species well characterized by its very obliquely nerved leaves, probably most 

 closely allied to Quercus merrUtii Merr., among the Philippine forms, but very 

 dili'erent from that. 



ULMACE^. 



GIRONNIERA Gaudich. 



Gironniera curranii sp. nov. 



Arbor circiter 15 m alta, glabi'a; foliis ovato-lanceolatis vel elliptico- 

 lanceolatis, glabris, nitidis, 8 ad 12 cm longis, basi rotundatis, apice 

 caudato-acuminatis, margine integris vel supeme pauce irregulariter 

 serratis; nervis utrinque 13 ad 15, prominentibus; floribus femineis 

 axillaribus, solitariis, longe pedicellatis, 5-meris. 



A tree about 15 m high, glabrous throughout. Branches slender, 

 terete, gray or brownish, the branclilets somewhat angled, sometimes with 

 very few appressed hairs. Leaves ovate-lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, 

 ^ubcoriaceous, shining, 8 to 12 cm long, 3.5 to 5 cm wide, paler beneath, 

 the base rounded, the apex caudate-acuminate, the acumen 2 cm long or 

 less, 3 to 4 mm wide, abruptly acute or apiculate, margins entire, or 

 Avith few prominent, irregular teeth at the apex just below the acumen; 

 nei'ves 13 to 15 on each side of the midrib, prominent, curved-ascending; 

 petioles 6 to 8 mm long. Pistillate flowers axillary, solitary, the calyx 

 lobes (in fruit) 5, ovate, acute or obtuse, about 2 mm long, the margins 

 somewhat ciliate, the fruit (immature) ovoid or elliptic-ovoid, 1.3 cm 

 long, 9 mm thick, glabrous, shining; style arms 2, stout, about 3 mm 

 long; pedicels about 1.5 cm long, slender. 



