326 MERRILL. 



obtuse. Rudimentary ovary narrowly club-shaped, 1 mm long. 

 Anthers broadly ovoid, 0.5 mm long. 



Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Quinacatucan, Bur. Sci. 13181 Foxworthy 

 & Ramos, March, 1911. 



A characteristic and strongly marked species, distinguished by its 

 unusually long, oblanceolate, denticulate leaves, and by its rotate flowers, 

 the calyx of the same size as the corolla, and both calyx and corolla very 

 densely glandular-punctate with black glands. Its allies are Discocalyx 

 insignis Merr., and D. macrophylla Merr. 



DISCOCALYX MACULATA sp. nov. 



Frutex parvus, circiter 4 m altus, glaber; foliis oblongis, 

 coriaceis, utrinque angustatis, acutis vel acuminatis, nitidis, 

 usque ad 25 cm longis, subtus parce glanduloso-punctatis et 

 maculis purpureis notatis, nervis utrinque 12 ad 15, distinctis; 

 inflorescentiis bipinnatim paniculatis, paniculis tenuibus, glandu- 

 loso-punctatis, in ramis specialibus dispositis ; floribus 6 minutis, 

 5-meris. 



A small tree or a shrub, 4 m high (fide Ramos), dioecious, gla- 

 brous. Leaves oblong, coriaceous, entire, 15 to 25 cm long, 4 

 to 8 cm wide, subequally narrowed at both ends, shining, the 

 apex acuminate, base acute, the lower surface somewhat paler 

 than the upper, with minute, scattered glands and with nu- 

 merous, scattered, purplish spots 1 to 1.3 mm in diameter; pri- 

 mary lateral nerves 12 to 15 on each side of the midrib, distinct, 

 anastomosing, the secondary ones sometimes nearly as distinct, 

 the reticulations rather lax; petioles 2 to 3 cm long. Special 

 branches bearing the inflorescence up to 18 cm long, slightly 

 branched, the upper one-half often much thickened and marked 

 with the scars of fallen bracts, the panicles more or less fascicled 

 at the ends of the branches, slender, bipinnately paniculate, more 

 or less glandular-punctate, 3 to 8 cm or more in length. Male 

 flowers 5-merous, small, nearly mature buds about 1 mm in 

 diameter, the calyx and corolla glandular-punctate. 



Luzon, Province of Cagayan, Abulug River, Bur. Sci. 13967 Ramos, 

 February, 1912, in forests. 



A species apparently most closely allied to Discocalyx montana Elm., 

 which it rather closely resembles, distinguished, however, by its small 

 flowers and by its leaves being prominently maculate on the lower surface. 



EMBELIA Burm. f. 



EMBELIA NIGRO-PUNCTATA sp. nov. § Choripetalum. 



Species ut videtur E. viridiflorae (A. DC.) Scheff., afliinis, 

 differt floribus majoribus, sessilibus vel subsessilibus, petalis 

 acutis vel acuminatis. 



An erect (or scandent?) shrub, glabrous throughout, the 



