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ovate to oblong-ovate, chartaceous, 9 to 15 cm long, 4 to 7 cm 

 wide, entire, the base slightly inequilateral, acute or somewhat 

 rounded, the apex blunt-acuminate, the acumen broad, short, 

 both surfaces shining when dry, rather pale and of about the 

 same color, or the upper surface somewhat olivaceous; lateral 

 nerves about 5 on each side of the midrib, very prominent on 

 the lower surface, curved or curved-ascending, distant, promi- 

 nently looped-anastomosing, the reticulations fine, distinct; peti- 

 oles about 5 mm long. Flowers greenish-white, small, axillary, 

 shortly pedicelled, the males numerous fascicled, the females 

 solitary or subsolitary. Male flowers: Calyx shallowly cup- 

 shaped, about 1.3 mm long, somewhat pubescent, shallowly and 

 acutely 5-toothed, the teeth broad. Petals 5, free, valvate, 

 alternating with the calyx-teeth, narrowly oblong, puberulent on 

 both surfaces, acute or obtuse, about 3 mm long, 1.2 mm wide. 

 Stamens 10, all fertile, 5 long ones alternating with 5 short ones, 

 inserted in a single row on the rather obscure, ferruginous- 

 pubescent disk ; longer filaments 2.3 mm long, the shorter ones 

 1.5 mm long, glabrous, slender; anthers broadly ovoid or orbic- 

 ular-ovoid, 0.5 mm long. Rudimentary ovary stout, cylindric, 

 puberulent, 2.5 mm long, truncate. Female flowers 5-merous, 

 solitary or subsolitary, their pedicels 2 mm long. Calyx about 

 as in the males. Petals lanceolate, puberulent, imbricate, acute 

 or somewhat acuminate, about 4 mm long, 1.6 mm wide. Rudi- 

 mentary stamens or staminodes wanting. Ovary ovoid or 

 narrowly ovoid, glabrous except the ferruginous-pubescent base, 

 narrowed above to the sessile stigma, 2-celled, each cell with a 

 solitary apical ovule. Stigma 2-lobed, curved or spreading, ses- 

 sile, about 2 mm long. Fruit ovoid, acute, about 1.5 cm long, 

 glabrous, the pericarp thick, very coriaceous or almost woody, the 

 putamen crustaceoua, 2-celled, cells 1-seeded. Mature seeds not 

 seen. 



Luzon, Province of Laguna, between San Antonio and Paete, Bur. Sci. 

 H9U3 (type), 165 Jtl Ramos, the former with male flowers, June, 1912, the 

 latter with nearly mature fruits and few female flowers, September, 1912: 

 Province of Cagayan, For. Bur. 18Jt36 Alvarez, February, 1909, in fruit. 



This apparently represents a very distinct generic type, and one pre- 

 viously not described. It belongs in the Tribe Olaceae, and apparently 

 near Ximenia Plum., and Scorodocarpus Becc, although not at all closely 

 allied to either. The alternate leaves, dioecious flowers, the males fasci- 

 cled and the females solitary, the 10 stamens, 5 short ones alternating with 

 5 longer ones, and the absence of staminodes or reduced stamens in the 

 female flowers are distinguishing characters. 



The first specimen received, in fruit, was tentatively referred by me 

 to the Olacaceae, but later was transferred to the Flacourtaceae, but with 

 no further attempt to determine it, on account of the similarity of its 



