IX, c, 4 Merrill: Philippine Plants, X 335 



latis, globosis vel globoso-obovoideis, circiter 2 cm diametro, 

 seminibus 4, albumine vix ruminato. 



A small tree, glabrous except for the flowers, the younger 

 branchlets, and the lower surfaces of young leaves. Branches 

 and branchlets terete, slender, dark-gray or brownish-black 

 when dry, wrinkled, lenticellate, the younger branchlets somewhat 

 ferruginous-pubescent. Leaves oblong, chartaceous or subcor- 

 iaceous, 12 to 20 cm long, 3.5 to 8 cm wide, narrowed at both 

 ends, the apex rather sharply acuminate, the base acute, eglandu- 

 lar, the upper surface smooth and shining when dry, brownish 

 or olivaceous, the lower surface usually much paler, slightly 

 shining, when young rather softly pubescent or puberulent, 

 often becoming glabrous or nearly so; lateral nerves about 12 

 on each side of the midrib, very prominent, arched-anastomosing, 

 the reticulations lax, prominent; petioles up to 1 cm in length. 

 Female flowers solitary or fascicled in the axils of fallen leaves, 

 or fascicled on rather prominent protuberances on the branchlets 

 below the leaves, 4-merous, sessile or very shortly and stoutly 

 pedicelled. Calyx densely ferruginous-pubescent, the tube very 

 short, broad, the lobes immediately after flowering orbicular- 

 reniform, rounded, densely ferruginous-pubescent on both sur- 

 faces, about 3 mm in diameter, soon accrescent, spreading, 

 reniform, 5 mm long and 8 mm in diameter, often recurved, 

 thickly coriaceous. Corolla and stamens not seen. Ovary ovoid, 

 densely ferruginous-pubescent, 4-celled. Fruit apparently fleshy, 

 globose or obovoid-globose, when dry about 2 cm in diameter and 

 often grayish, the pericarp glabrous, wrinkled, the coriaceous 

 calyx-lobes persistent at the base of the fruit. Seeds 4, one in 

 each cell, 12 to 15 mm long, about 1 cm wide and thick, the 

 albumen hard but scarcely bony, smooth, whitish or yellowish 

 when dry, not at all ruminate. 



Basilan, Bur. Sci. 16101 Reillo, August, 1912 (type). 



I refer also to this species the following material : Luzon, without definite 

 locality, Loher 6562, in fruit: Province of Tayabas, Bur. Sci. 10283 Curran, 

 in fruit. Cebu, Asturias, For. Bur. 6Jf50 Everett, in fruit. Mindanao, 

 District of Zamboanga, San Ramon, Hallier, in fruit. The only recorded 

 native name is the Cebuano panangtilong. 



DIOSPYROS MIRANDAE sp. nov. 



Arbor circiter 30 m alta inflorescentiis exceptis glabra; foliis 

 crasse coriaceis, oblongis, nitidis, utrinque concoloribus, usque 

 ad 12 cm longis, acuminatis, nervis utrinque circiter 10, tenuibus, 

 vix prominentibus, reticulis densis; floribus $ 5-meris, axilla- 

 ribus, in racemis brevibus paucifloris dispositis; calycibus in 



