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the margins; nerves 15 to 20 on each side of the midrib, rather 

 distinct on the lower surface, anastomosing and forming sub- 

 marginal nerves very close to the edges of the leaf; petioles 8 

 to 12 mm long. Flowers unknown. Infrutescence leaf-opposed 

 or subterminal, always at the tips of the branchlets, the peduncle 

 5 mm long or less, bearing usually about 4 or 5 umbellately 

 arranged primary branchlets 1 to 1.5 cm in length, the branchlets 

 in turn bearing usually two umbellately arranged fruits, the 

 pedicels as long as the peduncles. Fruit globose, about 8 mm 

 in diameter, very prominently marked with round and elongated 

 glands, the persistent calyx about 7 mm in diameter, promi- 

 nently glandular-punctate, the lobes oblong, obtuse, about 2.6 

 mm long, not at all ciliate. 



Luzon, Province of Cagayan, Abulug River, For. Bur. 19613 Curran, 

 Bur. Sci. 13968 Ramos (type), January, 1912, in forests. 



A species probably most closely allied to Ardisia jagori Mez, but very 

 distinct in vegetative and other characters. 



DISCOCALYX Mez. 



DISCOCALYX LONGI FOLIA sp. nov. 



Frutex glaber 2.5 m altus; foliis oblanceolatis, circiter 55 cm 

 longis, coriaceis, acutis vel acuminatis, basi angustatis, acutis, 

 margine supra distincte dentatis; inflorescentiis bipinnatim 

 paniculatis, tenuibus, paniculis fasciculatis, in ramis specialibus 

 dispositis; floribus 0.3 mm diametro, prominente glanduloso- 

 punctatis. 



A glabrous, dioecious shrub about 2.5 m high. Leaves appa- 

 rently crowded at the apices of the branches, coriaceous, oblan- 

 ceolate, about 55 cm long, 11 cm wide at the upper two- thirds, 

 from there gradually narrowed to the acute or cuneate base, the 

 apex acute or acuminate, the margins in the upper two-thirds 

 distinctly and regularly dentate, the lower surface obscurely 

 glandular-punctate; nerves 40 or more on each side of the 

 midrib, rather distinct, anastomosing, the ultimate reticulations 

 indistinct, petioles stout, about 4 cm long. Inflorescence of 

 slender, bipinnately paniculate panicles 10 cm long or less, which 

 are fascicled near the apices of stout, specialized branches, these 

 branches about 4 mm thick, more or less thickened at their 

 apices and marked with scars of fallen bracts. Male flowers 

 crimson, about 3 mm in diameter, the calyx rotate, very prom- 

 inently glandular-punctate, the glands black, the lobes oblong, 

 obtuse, about 1.3 mm long, their margins thin, subhyaline. Co- 

 rolla of the same diameter as the calyx, prominently and densely 

 glandular-punctate with black glands, the lobes oblong-ovate, 



