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ends, prominently acuminate at the apex and usually acute at the base, the 

 distant, minute, gland-like marginal teeth, the very short petioles, and the 

 subcapitate tips of the staminodes. 



CASEARIA LOHERI sp. nov. 



Arbor parva, 4 ad 6 m alta, partibus junioribus floribusque 

 exceptis glabra; foliis chartaceis, oblongo-ovatis ad obovatis, 

 usque ad 18 cm longis, breviter petiolatis, in siccitate brunneis, 

 integris, basi rotundatis, apice late acuminatis, nervis utrinque 

 5 vel 6; floribus axillaribus, fasciculatis, paucis, 5-meris, extus 

 leviter hirsutis. Staminibus 10. 



A small tree 4 to 6 m high, quite glabrous except the flowers 

 and the growing tips of the branchlets which are sparingly- 

 hirsute with short, appressed hairs. Branches slender, terete, 

 smooth, grayish. Leaves chartaceous, oblong-ovate to obovate, 

 8 to 18 cm long, 4 to 8 cm wide, entire, the upper surface rather 

 dark-brown or olivaceous-brown when dry, slightly shining, the 

 lower somewhat paler, the base usually broad, rounded, some- 

 times subacute, equilateral or nearly so, the apex with a short, 

 broad acumen; lateral nerves 5 or 6 on each side of the midrib, 

 distant, rather prominent on the lower surface, curved or curved- 

 ascending, anastomosing, the reticulations distinct ; petioles 4 to 7 

 mm long. Flowers 5-merous, axillary, fascicled and few or sub- 

 solitary, their pedicels very short, jointed, the subtending brac- 

 teoles 2, reniform or very broadly ovate, somewhat connate, 

 broadly acuminate, externally somewhat pubescent with short 

 hairs. Sepals 5, elliptic, rounded, slightly pubescent externally, 

 concave, 3.5 to 4 mm long. Stamens 10, their filaments united 

 below with the alternating staminodes, the tubular part glabrous, 

 0.8 mm long, the free parts of the filaments slender, glabrous, 

 1.4 mm long; anthers oblong-ovate 0.8 mm long. Alternating 

 staminodes shorter than the stamens, oblong, obtuse, 1 to 1.2 

 mm long, glabrous externally, prominently ferruginous-hirsute 

 at the apex. Ovary ovoid, 1.2 mm long, ferruginous-hirsute in 

 the upper one-half, narrowed to the subsessile or sessile capitate 

 stigma. Fruit ovoid or ellipsoid, glabrous, fleshy, reddish when 

 mature, 2 cm long, the valves coriaceous. Seeds about 15, 

 obliquely obovoid, about 5 mm long, externally densely covered 

 with roundish, distinct, pale dots. Aril thin, submembrana- 

 ceous, 8 to 10 mm long, enveloping the seed, the upper part more 

 or less lacerate. 



Luzon, Province of Rizal, San Isidro, Bur. Sci. 13525 Ramos (type), 

 August, 1910, in forests. Bur. Sci. 1851 Ramos, January, 1907, in fruit; 

 Oriud, Loher 6215. 



