310 MERRILL. 



the albumen bony, ruminate. The persistent calyx is accrescent, thickly 

 coriaceous, glabrous, reflexed, forming an acuminately 4-angle(i tube 1 

 to 1.5 cm long, and diagonally 2 to 2.5 cm in diameter, with four short, 

 acute or acuminate teeth, one at each corner. The side-walls of the 

 calyx-tube are concave, so that the apex of the reflexed calyx-tube is 

 formed of four lobes radiating from the center to the corners of the 

 tube. The peduncle is about 2 cm long in mature fruits. 



Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Port Banga, For. Bur. 0'i53 (type), 9175 

 Whitford tC- Tlutchinson, January, February, 1908, with mature fruits. Basilan, 

 San Rafael, For. Bur. 60DS Hutchinson, January, 1907, with mature fruits. Ne- 

 GROS, Gimagaan River, For. Bur. J,2Jt3, J{269 Everett, April, May, 1906, the 

 former with abnormal inflorescence, the latter with immature flowers; Cadiz, 

 For. Bur.- 4309 Everett, For. Bur. 1^01 Danao, June 1906, 1907, the former with 

 abnormal inflorescence, the latter sterile. Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Guina- 

 yangan, Merrill 2001 March, 1903, with immature fruits. 



This species is well characterized by its comparatively large, 8-celled, 8-seeded 

 fruits, its ruminated albumen, and especially by its persistent calyx which forms 

 an acuminately 4-angled, reflexed tube. It is apparently allied to the Bornean 

 Diospyros korthalsiana Hiern, but has much larger leaves, and a quite different 

 calyx-tube. In some respects it resembles D. suhrigida Hochr., but is quite 

 distinct from that species. Like D. curranii Merr. this species frequently has an 

 abnormal, densely much branched inflorescence, apparently due to -^he work of 

 insects. It is known in Nogros as Aia-ata, in Tayabas as Anang, and in Basilan 

 as Bolongita. 



Diospyros montana Roxb. PI. Coroniend. 1 (1795) 37, t. J/S; Hiern IMonog. 

 Eben. (1873) 220. 



Luzon, Province of Nueva Ecija, near C'abanatuan, Bur. Sci. 5266 McGregor, 

 September, 1908. 



A species not previously found in the Philippines, the above specimen agreeing 

 rather closely with the form considered by Hiern as the variety cordifolia, except 

 that the leaves are not cordate. 



India to the Moluccas and northern Australia. 



Var. parva var. nov. 



IhfTcrt a typo foliis multo minoribus, 1 ad 2.5 cm longis, subtus dense 

 moililer pubescentibus; fructibus globosis, junioribus 8 mm diametro, 

 glabris, nigris, apiculatis, 8-locellatis ; calycis lobis accrescentibus, re- 

 trorsis. 



Luzon, Province of llocos Norte, Badoc, For. Bur. 13953 Mcrritt tC- Darling, 

 November, 1908, on rocky hillsides at an altitude of about (io ni. II., Antinagam. 



Well characterized by its small densely pubescent leaves; additional material 

 may show it to be worthy of specific rank. 



Diospyros phanerophlebia sji. nov. 



Arbor 5 ad 10 in alia, glabia, inflorescentiis exceptiis; foliis crasse 

 coriaceis, oblongis vel oblungo-lanceolatis, nitidis, basi acutis, subtus 

 2-glandulosis, apice obtusis vel leviter obtuso-acuminatis, usque ad 20 

 cm longi^;; nervis uti'inque 8 ad 10, subtus prom incut ilms, elevatis. 



