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nervis utrinque circiter 5, siibtus prominentibus ; infiorescentiis axillaribus, 

 solitariis, tenuibus, paucifloris, foliis subaequalibus vel brevioribiis. 



x\ suli'mtesceut plant, the stems creeping or prostrate, rooting, striate, 

 glabrous or nearly so, slender, brown, the erect leaf-bearing branches 

 densely pubescent with dark-brown, crisped hairs, these branches less 

 than 20 cm high, often some roots appearing above the lowermost leaves. 

 Leaves pseudo-verticillate, in threes, their petioles 5 mm long or less, 

 densely crisped-tomentose, the lamina membranaceous, elliptic or elliptic- 

 ovate, 3 to 4 cm long, 1.5 to 2.5 cm wide, with scattered, crisped, brown 

 hairs on both surfaces, especially on the midrib and nerves, obscurely 

 glandular, the apex acute or obtuse, base rounded, margins prominently 

 and rather distantly denticulate; nerves about 5 on each side of the 

 midrib, prominent beneath, obscurely anastomosing, the reticulations lax, 

 obscure. Flowers unknown. Infrutescence axillary, solitary, very slender, 

 brown-puberulent, with intermixed longer crisped hairs, the rachis 2 to 2.5 

 cm long, bearing near its apex few long-pedicelled fruits, the pedicels 

 about 1 cm long, puberulent, each subtended by a narrowly lanceolate 

 or linear, acuminate, 2.5 mm long bracteole. Sepals persistent, reflexed 

 in fruit, lanceolate, gradually narrowed upward to the acuminate apex, 

 about 3 mm long, united for the lower 0.5 mm, more or less brown- 

 puberulent, margins obscurely ciliate, very obscurely glandular-punctate. 

 Fruit fleshy, globose, 5 to 6 mm in diameter, red, glabrous, tipped with 

 the slender, 3 mm long, persistent style ; seed globose, 4 mm in diameter. 



Luzon, Province of Pampaiiga, Mount Abu, Bur. Sci. 193S Foxworthy, Decem- 

 ber 31, 1906, in forested ravines, altitude about 1,360 m. 



A species of the section Bladhia, and apparently closely allied to A)-disia 

 pusilla A. DC. {A. villosa Mez, non Roxb.) of Japan, and to A. faberi Hemsl. of 

 China. All other species of the section, with one exception, A. metallica N. E. 

 Br., of Sumatra, are confined to the Himalayan region, China, and Japan. 



DISCOCALYX Mez. 



Discocalyx insignis sp. nov. 



Frutex glaber circiter 3 m altus ; foliis alternis, vix pseudo-verticillatis, 

 elliptico-oblongis, usque ad 40 cm longis, margine dense denticulatis, basi 

 longe decurrento-acuminatis ; petiolo 6 ad 9 cm longo; floribus dioicis, 

 5-meris, glabris. 



An erect glabrous shrub about 3 m high, the ultimate branchlets 

 stout, about 1 cm in diameter. Leaves alternate, not pseudo-verticillate, 

 elliptic-oblong, 35 to 40 cm long, 10 to 14 cm wide, chartaceous or sub- 

 coriaceous, usually grayish when dry, shining, not glandular-punctate, 

 the apex shortly and obscurely blunt-acuminate, the base long-decurrent- 

 acuminate, the margins entire in the lower part of the leaf, but above 

 the lower one-fourth densely denticulate; nerves about 20 on each side 

 of the midrib, prominent, anastomosing, the reticulations distinct, rather 

 lax; petiole stout, 6 to 9 cm long. Panicles fascicled at the ends of 



