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the branchlets terete, slightly pubescent, the nodes with very 

 short sharp spines 1.5 mm long or less. Leaves ovate to oblong- 

 ovate, 1.5 to 5 cm long, 1 to 2.5 cm wide, coriaceous, shining, 

 glabrous, acute or very slightly apiculate-acuminate, base broad, 

 cordate ; nerves about 8 on each side of the midrib, very slender, 

 not at all prominent ; petioles 2 mm long or less. Flowers (not 

 seen) in axillary, solitary, apparently few-flowered umbels, the 

 peduncle in fruit 1.5 to 2 cm long, slender, glabrous, the pedicels 

 (gynophore) 1.5 to 2.5 cm in length. Fruit ovoid or subglobose, 

 about 8 mm in diameter, white when fresh, brown when dry, 

 apparently fleshy, 2- or 3- seeded, the seeds 3 to 4 mm in length. 



Luzon, Province of Tayabas, For. Bur. 11111 Curran (type), April, 1908, 

 on sand dunes along the seashore: Province of Ilocos Norte, Bur. Sci. 7602 

 Ramos, March, 1909, in sandy places near the sea. 



A species manifestly very closely allied to Capparis lobbiana Turcz., 

 which it closely resembles, differing in having entirely glabrous, shining, 

 coriaceous or subcoriaceous, not softly pubescent leaves. 



SAXIFRAGACEAE. 



POLYOSMA Blume. 

 POLYOSMA PIPERI sp. nov. 



Frutex vel arbor parva ; f oliis anguste oblongo-obovatis vel late 

 oblanceolatis, usque ad 16 cm longis, integris, apice acuminatis, 

 basi angustatis, acutis, oppositis, chartaceis, subtus ad costa ner- 

 visque plus minusve hirsutis, nervis utrinque circiter 12, promi- 

 nentibus; racemis terminalibus, pubescentibus, quam folia lon- 

 gioribus; floribus 4-meris, circiter 12 mm longis. 



A shrub or a small tree, the branches terete, glabrous, the 

 younger ones nearly black when dry and more or less pubescent 

 with short, spreading, often fulvous hairs. Leaves opposite, 

 narrowly oblong-obovate to broadly oblong-oblanceolate, charta- 

 ceous, 12 to 16 cm long, 3.5 to 5 cm wide, entire, the apex rather 

 prominently acuminate, gradually narrowed from about the 

 middle to the acute base, the upper surface glabrous or nearly 

 so, the lower of about the same color, more or less fulvous or 

 pale-pubescent along the midrib and lateral nerves; lateral 

 nerves about 12 on each side of the midrib, prominent, curved, 

 anastomosing, the reticulations rather lax; petioles 1.5 to 2.5 

 cm long, pubescent. Racemes terminal, more or less hirsute- 

 pubescent with short, pale or grayish hairs, a little longer than 

 the leaves, erect. Flowers numerous, about 12 mm long, their 



