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12, planis, anguste ovoideis, utrinque sulcatis, nitidis, 6 mm 

 longis; sepalis persistentibus, margine leviter ciliatis. 



A glabrous tree, size not indicated. Branches terete, reddish- 

 brown or grayish, smooth. Leaves coriaceous, entire oblong- 

 elliptic, 12 to 15 cm long, 4 to 6.5 cm wide, subequally narrowed 

 at both ends, the base acute, the apex very broadly, shortly, and 

 bluntly acuminate, the upper surface pale-olivaceous when dry, 

 the lower brownish, paler, both slightly shining and very minutely 

 puncticulate, glabrous; lateral nerves about 15 on each side of 

 the midrib, slender, rather distinct, about equally prominent on 

 both surfaces, anastomosing, forming a double row of arches, 

 the reticulations lax, indistinct; petioles stout, about 1 cm long. 

 Flowers not seen, the pedicels in fruit stout, 2 to 2.5 cm long, 

 the persistent calyx lobes coriaceous, at first apparently some- 

 what pubescent, becoming quite or nearly glabrous, the outer 

 two smaller than the inner three which are more or less reni- 

 form, entire or nearly so, somewhat reniform or very broadly 

 rounded-ovate, about 8 mm wide, margins deciduously ciliate, in 

 age glabrous or nearly so. Fruit ovoid, about 1.5 cm long, 

 smooth, brown, somewhat shining, entirely glabrous, 2-celled, the 

 pericarp rather thick, dry and brittle in texture. Seeds 10 to 

 12, brown, shining, flattened, narrowly obovoid, rounded at the 

 apex, about 6 mm long, longitudinally grooved along the middle 

 of both faces. 



Luzon, Province of Laguna, Cavinti, For. Bur. 19667 Racelis, August, 

 1912. 



A species manifestly closely allied to the Malayan Adinandra acuminata 

 Korth., from which it differs in its differently shaped, very broadly and 

 obtusely acuminate, more numerously nerved leaves, longer petioles, and 

 other characters. 



ADINANDRA LOHERI sp. nov. 



Arbor, gemmis petalis staminibusque exceptis glabra; foliis 

 ellipticis, coriaceis, usque ad 10 cm longis, basi decurrento-acumi- 

 natis, apice late rotundatis ad brevissime late acuminatis, mar- 

 gine crenulatis vel denticulato-crenulatis, subtus obscurissime 

 glanduloso-maculatis, nervis utrinque tenuibus, distinctis, circiter 

 15; floribus 5-meris; sepalis glabris; petalis extus in partibus 

 medianus villosis, 1.8 cm longis; staminibus circiter 50, leviter 

 hirsutis; ovario 5-loculare, glaber. 



A tree, quite glabrous except the vegetative buds and some 

 parts of the flowers. Branches terete, grayish or dark-colored, 

 the young branchlets reddish-brown, the vegetative buds pale- 

 villous. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic, 6 to 10 cm long, 3.5 to 5 



