324 I'f^^ Philippme Jouimal of Scieyice 1914 



Bur. lJf758, 1U7U8 Darling: Province of Ilocos Norte, Cuming 1250: Prov- 

 ince of Ilocos Sur, Cuming 112S : Province of Nueva Vizcaya, For. Bur. 

 158H Curran & Merritt: Benguet Subprovince, Elmer 6^23: Province of 

 Pangasinan, For. Bur. 8376 Curran & Merritt: Province of Zambales, Bur. 

 Sci. 50Jf2 Ramos, Merrill 2916: Province of Rizal, For. Bur. 1893 Ahem's 

 collector: Province of Tayabas (Principe), Me7-rill 1018. 



This species appears to be common and widely distributed in northern 

 Luzon. The specimens cited above show considerable variation but are 

 all apparently referable to a single species. Presl's description was based 

 on at least two specimens, one in flower, and one in fruit. The type in the 

 herbarium of the Museum des Konigreichs Bohmen at Prague, consists of a 

 fruiting and a flowering specimen mounted on the same sheet, and is, at 

 least in part, identical with the later Xylosma cumingii Clos. The eai'liest 

 name is here adopted. 



XYLOSMA SULUENSIS sp. nov. 



Frutex glaber circiter 5 m altus ; ramulis pallidis, f oliis oblongo- 

 ovatis vel oblongo-lanceolatis, chartaceis, nitidis, basi acutis, 

 apice acuminatis, margine integris, usque ad 18 cm longis ; race- 

 mis axillaribus, solitariis, glabris, quam petiolo paullo longiori- 

 bus, paucifloris; fructibus globosis, 6 ad 8 mm diametro. 



A glabrous shrub about 5 m high, the branches and branchlets 

 slender, terete, very pale, with few, scattered lenticels. Leaves 

 oblong-ovate to oblong-lanceolate, entire, 9 to 18 cm long, 3.5 to 

 6 cm wide, chartaceous, shining and of about the same color on 

 both surfaces, when dry brownish-olivaceous, the base acute, the 

 apex acuminate, gradually narrowed upward from below the 

 middle, the base often with one or two small glands on the 

 margins near the insertion of the petiole ; lateral nerves slender, 

 ascending, about 10 on each side of the midrib; petioles 8 to 10 

 mm long. Racemes axillary, solitary, glabrous, 2 cm long or 

 less, few-flowered. Flowers unknown. Fruits usually about 

 five to each raceme, globose, 6 to 8 mm in diameter, crustaceous 

 when dry, smooth, crowned by the very short style, their pedicels 

 3 to 4 mm long, the subtending bracteoles ovate-lanceolate, 1.5 

 mm long or less. Seeds 4, black, concave, about 4 mm wide. 



Ubian Island, Sulu Archipelago, Merrill 5398, October 12, 1906, in 

 thickets back of the beach. 



A species well characterized by its entire leaves with are considerably 

 larger than are those of our other species, Xylosma luzonensis (Presl) 

 Merr, 



FLACOURTIA Commerson 



FLACOURTIA EUPHLEBIA sp. nov. 



Frutex spinbsus circiter 4 mm altus subtus foliis ad nervos 

 dense pubescentibus ; foliis oblongis, subcoriaceis, usque ad 18 

 cm longis, basi acutis vel rotundatis, apice breviter acuminatis, 

 margine distincte crenato-serratis ; nervis utrinque circiter 10, 



