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branches terete, smooth, gray. Leaves coriaceous, oblong to 

 oblong-obovate, usually brown when dry, somewhat shining, 8 to 

 16 cm long, 3.5 to 7 cm wide, the base acute, apex obtuse, acute, 

 or very obscurely and broadly acuminate, both surfaces, but espe- 

 cially the lower one, with rather large, scattered, black glands; 

 primary lateral nerves 8 to 10 on each side of the midrib, not 

 very prominent, the secondary ones nearly as distinct, the retic- 

 ulations rather close; petioles 1.5 to 3 cm long. Inflorescence 

 spicate or subracemose, from the axils of fallen leaves, solitary, 

 2.5 to 4 cm long, the base subtended by numerous, small, im- 

 bricate bracts. Flowers 4-merous, sessile or subsessile, whitish, 

 the bracteoles lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 2 mm long, 0.6 

 mm wide, with black glands. Calyx 2.5 mm long, black- 

 glandular, the lobes ovate, acuminate, nearly 2 mm long. Petals 

 4, free, oblong-ovate, acute or acuminate, 3.5 mm long, 1.7 

 mm wide, black-glandular. Filaments slender, 3 mm long; 

 anthers oblong, 1.5 mm long, the connective black-glandular. 

 Ovary ovoid, tapering into the style. Fruit ovoid, apiculate, 

 8 to 10 mm long, smooth. 



MiNDORO, near Calapan, Bur. Sci. 938 Mangubat, June, 1906, said by the 

 collector to be a common shrub in thickets. Probably referable here is Bur. 

 Sci. 1068 Ramos (distributed as Antidesma) , from Bosoboso, Province of 

 Rizal, Luzon, the specimen in fruit. 



The species is manifestly allied to E^nbelia viridiflora (A. DC.) Scheflf., 

 but differs in the size of its flowers which are sessile or subsessile, acute 

 or acuminate petals, and in its leaves being punctate with decidedly scat- 

 tered but prominent black glands. 



MAESA Forsk. 



MAESA FERRUGINEA sp. nov. § Eu7naesa. 



Arbuscula circiter 1 m alta, ramulis foliis inflorescentiisque 

 plus minusve ferrugineo-pilosis ; foliis oblongo-ovatis, crenato- 

 dentatis, usque ad 12 cm longis, nervis utrinque circiter 6 ; ra- 

 cemis axillaribus, solitariis, densis, petiolo subaequantibus vel 

 brevioribus; sepalis extus dense tomentosis. 



A shrub about 1 m high, all parts rather densely and softly 

 ferruginous-pilose. Branches dark-brown, pilose, with small 

 scattered lenticels. Leaves chartaceous, oblong-ovate, 7 to 12 

 cm long, 2.5 to 5.5 cm wide, both surfaces pilose with soft 

 scattered hairs, base rounded or subacute, apex acute or sHghtly 

 acuminate, margins distinctly crenate-serrate ; petioles very 

 densely ferruginous-pilose, about 2 cm long ; nerves 5 to 7 pairs, 

 prominent, reticulations indistinct. Inflorescence racemose, 

 densely pilose, very rarely in depauperate panicles, the racemes 

 dense, many-flowered, usually about as long as the petioles ; pedi- 



