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with minute, scattered teeth opposite the ends of some of the 

 nerves, the upper surface, when dry, dark brownish-olivaceous, 

 slightly shining, smooth, glabrous, the lower surface paler, ap- 

 pressed hirsute with fulvous hairs on the midrib and lateral 

 nerves ; lateral nerves 12 to 15 on each side of the midrib, prom- 

 inent on the lower surface, anastomosing, the reticulations 

 lax; petioles fulvous-pubescent, 2 to 2.5 cm long, in age be- 

 coming nearly glabrous. Racemes terminal, many flowered, soli- 

 tary, 10 to 14 cm long, densely hirsute with short, fulvous hairs. 

 Flowers white, somewhat crowded, their pedicels 3 mm long, 

 the bracteoles usually 3, lanceolate, acuminate, 2 to 2.3 mm long. 

 Calyx hirsute, 2 to 2.5 mm long, the lobes lanceolate-ovate, 

 acuminate, 0.8 mm long. Petals 4, linear-lanceolate, 8 to 9 mm 

 long, about 2 mm wide at the base, narrowed upward to the 

 acute apex, prominently 5-nerved, the nerves dark-colored, out- 

 side hirsute. Filaments flattened, hirsute inside, about 4 mm 

 long; anthers linear, narrower than the filaments, 3 mm long. 

 Style glabrous, 8 mm long. Fruit subglobose, not rugose, 

 sparingly pubescent, 7 to 8 mm in diameter. 



Luzon, Province of Laguna, near San Antonio and Paete, Bur. Scu 

 2S9S (type), U960, 10056 Ramos, For. Bur. 1S185 Curran, flowering in 

 February and March, fruiting June and July. 



A species manifestly closely allied to Polyosma philippinenaia Merr., 

 from which it differs in its smaller flowers, and its more numerously 

 nerved leaves which are appressed-pubescent on the midrib and nerves on 

 the lower surface, not glabrous. Another close ally appears to be the 

 recently described Polyosma gitingensis Elm., which, however, has gla- 

 brous leaves, even smaller flowers, and much larger bracteoles. 



POLYOSMA LINEARIBRACTEA sp. nov. 



Arbor, omnibus partibus plus minusve pubescentibus vel hir- 

 sutis; foliis crasse coriaceis, oppositis, oblongis, usque ad 17 cm 

 longis, utrinque acutis, apice mucronatis, margine grosse dis- 

 tanter serratis; nervis utrinque circiter 12, subtus valde prom- 

 inentibus ; racemis terminalibus, solitariis, circiter 15 cm longis ; 

 fioribus circiter 2.4 cm longis, bracteolis linearis, elongatis, 8 

 ad 12 mm longis. 



A tree said by the collector to be 20 m high, the branches 

 terete, dark-brown, glabrous, the younger branchlets, the leaves, 

 and the inflorescence more or less densely hirsute with grayish- 

 brown hairs. Leaves thickly coriaceous, oblong, 12 to 17 cm 

 long, 4 to 5 cm wide, narrowed about equally to the acute base and 

 apex, the apex also mucronate, the upper surface, when young, 

 appressed-hirsute, in age becoming glabrous, shining, greenish- 

 olivaceous, the lower surface paler, rather prominently hirsute 



