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oblong, 3,5 mm long, 1.2 mm wide, slightly pubescent outside, 

 apex acute or obtuse, more or less inflexed. Staminodes none. 

 Ovary oblong-ovoid, somewhat hirsute, 2 mm long; stigma shal- 

 lowly cup-shaped, about 1.3 mm in diameter. Fruit narrowly 

 ovoid, somewhat compressed, about 2 cm long, 1.3 cm wide, 

 wrinkled when dry, the pseudostipe about 8 mm long, the per- 

 sistent petals recurved, pulp scanty, the endocarp crustaceous, 

 coarsely foveolate. 



Camiguin de Mindanao, Panatayuan, Bur. Sci. lIf67A Ramos, March 

 28, 1912, in forests, the flowers greenish-yellow. 



Quite distinct from our other Philippine species, Miquelia cumingii Baill., 

 and readily recognizable by its prominently reticulate leaves and its sparse 

 pubescence of short, pale, hirsute hairs. 



PLATEA Blume 



PLATEA PHILIPPINENSIS sp. nov. 



Platea latifolia Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 58, non 

 Blume. 



Species P. latifoliae Bl. affinis, difFert foliis minoribus, basi 

 acutis, partibus junioribus inflorescentiisque ferrugineo-lepidotis, 

 vix tomentosis, fructibus minoribus. 



A dioecious tree 8 to 20 m high, the branches terete, nearly 

 black when dry, glabrous, the branchlets densely lepidote, the 

 scales minute, older ones pale, the younger ones ferrugineous. 

 Leaves oblong-ovate, coriaceous 7 to 12 cm long, 2.5 to 6.5 cm 

 wide, the apex rather prominently acuminate, the base acute, 

 the upper surface dark-colored when dry, glabrous, somewhat 

 shining, the lower pale, densely lepidote; lateral nerves 10 to 

 12 on each side of the midrib, prominent on the lower surface, 

 darker colored than the surface itself, usually anastomosing; 

 petioles 2 to 3 cm long, more or less lepidote. Male panicles 3 

 to 6 cm long, narrow, interrupted, the rachis, branches, and 

 calyces ferruginous-lepidote, the scales somewhat ciliate, not 

 tomentose, the lower branches 2 cm long or less, the upper ones 

 reduced to fascicles of flowers. Flowers sessile, glomerate, 

 numerous, the buds globose or depressed-globose. Calyx about 

 2 mm in diameter, the sepals nearly free, ovate, acute, about 1 

 mm long. Petals narrowly ovate or ovate-lanceolate, slightly 

 united at the base, glabrous, 2.5 to 3 mm long. Anthers broadly 

 elliptic, about 1.2 mm long. Male racemes axillary, solitary, 

 about 2 cm long, 3- to 5-flowered, ferruginous-lepidote, the 

 pedicels very stout, 2 to 3 mm long. Calyx somewhat cup- 

 shaped, the lobes very broadly ovate or orbicular-ovate, about 

 2.5 mm long, 3 mm wide. Ovary densely stellate-lepidote, the 



