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3 to 4 cm wide, narrowed upward to the obtuse apex and below 

 to the cuneate base; lateral nerves about 15 on each side of the 

 midrib, distinct on the lower surface, the reticulations lax, not 

 prominent; petioles stout, 1 to 1.5 cm long. Flowers not seen. 

 Fruits numerous, fascicled on the branches in the axils of fallen 

 leaves, their pedicels brown, 1.2 to 2.2 cm long, glabrous, the 

 points of attachment densely brown furfuraceous-pubescent. 

 Young fruits brown when dry, ovoid to oblong-ovoid, glabrous, 

 about 1.5 cm long, tipped by the rather stout 1 cm long style, 

 the persistent calyx-lobes four, 2-seriate, broadly ovate, coria- 

 ceous, obtuse, the outer two about 6 mm long, 5 mm wide, the 

 inner two somewhat thinner and a little broader, outside with 

 few, appressed, dark-brown, shining hairs, becoming nearly or 

 quite glabrous. 



Palawan, Silanga Peak, Merrill 9622, May 30, 1913, in forests on the 

 exposed peak, summit, altitude about 530 meters, distributed as Payena. 



Apparently allied to Bassia multiflora Merr., but with relatively much 

 narrower, less prominently nerved leaves. 



BA8SIA OBOVATI FOLIA sp. nov. 



Arbor glabra circiter 20 m alta; foliis crasse coriaceis, obo- 

 vatis, usque ad 12 cm longis, in siccitate nitidis, pallidis, apice 

 obtusis, rotundatis vel retusis, basi cuneatis, nervis utrinque 

 circiter 12 ; f ructibus e axillis def oliatis, ellipsoideis, circiter 2.5 

 cm longis, pedicellis circiter 2 cm longis, sursum incrassatis; 

 sepalis persistentibus, circiter 5 mm latis, irregulariter lacerato- 

 retusis. 



A tree about 20 m in height, entirely glabrous, the branches 

 reddish-brown, terete, somewhat wrinkled when dry. Leaves 

 thickly coriaceous, obovate to oblong-obovate, 7 to 12 cm long, 



4 to 6.5 cm wide, pale and shining when dry, apex obtuse, broadly 

 rounded or retuse, base narrowed, cuneate, margins recurved; 

 lateral nerves about 12 on each side of the midrib, distinct, the 

 reticulations lax, not prominent; petioles stout, about 1.5 cm 

 long. Fruits solitary or in pairs in the axils of fallen leaves on 

 the ultimate branchlets, in general ellipsoid, coarsely wrinkled 

 when dry, pale-brownish, about 2.5 cm long, the style persistent 

 as a slender straight apiculus up to 1 cm in length. Persistent 

 calyx lobes 4, in two pairs, suborbicular, concave, coriaceous, 

 about 5 mm wide, irregularly lacerate-retuse ; pedicels about 2 

 cm long, rather prominently thickened upward. 



Luzon, Province of Camarines, near Daet, For. Bur. 2H26 (type) , 21^5^ 

 Alvarez, May, 1914, on forested slopes, 20 to 50 meters altitude. 



A species similar to and manifestly closely allied to Bassia coriacea 

 Merr., from which it is readily distinguished by its obovate leaves and 

 fewer lateral nerves; distributed as Palaquium. 



