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globosis vel depresso-globosis, circiter 3 cm diametro, in siccitate 

 nigris, nitidis, glabris, seminibus 7 vel 8. 



A tree about 25 m in height, quite glabrous except the flowers, 

 the branches slender, terete, dark-colored, the branchlets and 

 petioles black when dry. Leaves chartaceous, dark-colored or 

 somewhat blackish when dry, shining, 14 to 27 cm long, 5 to 9 

 cm wide, of about the same color on both surfaces, the apex 

 shortly acuminate, base acute to subacute, usually with a pair 

 of distinct glands near the junction with the petiole; lateral 

 nerves 12 to 14 on each side of the midrib, slender, distinct, anas- 

 tomosing, the reticulations rather lax, distinct; petioles 1 to 1.5 

 cm long. Flowers axillary, fascicled, 4-merous, few in each fasci- 

 cle, some in the axils of leaves, some in the axils of fallen leaves, 

 each subtended by one or two pairs of broadly ovate, pubescent 

 bracts 2 mm long or less. Calyx about 8 mm long and 7 mm in 

 diameter, pubescent externally, black when dry, the lobes broadly 

 ovate, acuminate, erect, about 4 mm long, 4 to 4.5 mm wide at 

 the base. Corolla-tube 8 to 9 mm long, inflated, about 7 mm in 

 diameter, much narrowed toward the throat, rather densely 

 pubescent with short, grayish-brown hairs, the lobes 4, spread- 

 ing, narrowly oblong, somewhat falcate, acute, thickly coria- 

 ceous, about 9 mm long, 5 mm wide. Stamens about 20, mostly 

 in pairs, 2-seriate, the filaments of each pair more or less united ; 

 anthers narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, 3.5 to 5.5 mm long. 

 Ovary ovoid, pubescent, about 4 mm in diameter, 8-celled; style 

 stout, pubescent, widened below, about as long as the ovary, the 

 stigma irregularly lacerate. Fruit globose or depressed-globose, 

 yellow to red when mature, black and shining when dry, about 

 3 cm in diameter, the persistent calyx black, coriaceous, glabrous 

 or nearly so, nearly square in outline, about 1.5 cm broad, shallow. 

 Seeds 7 or 9, somewhat flattened, about 13 cm long, 7 mm wide, 

 rounded at both ends, smooth, black, shining, the albumen smooth. 



Luzon, Province of Camarines, For. Bur. 21U3 (type) 21705, 22631 

 Alvarez, April and May, 1914, March, 1912, from Mount Calinigan, Mount 

 Labo, and Lanot River, in forests, 100 to 500 meters. 



The species is perhaps as closely allied to Diospyros maritima Blume 

 as any other species, but with entirely different, much thinner, fewer nerves 

 and different flowers and fruits. 



M I M USOPS Linnaeus 



MIMUSOPS CALOPHYLLOIDES sp. nov. 



Arbor circiter 18 m alta, floribus exceptis glaberrima; foliis 

 oblongo-obovatis, subcoriaceis, usque ad 12 cm longis, obtusis ad 

 rotundatis, basi acutis, nitidis, nervis lateralibus numerosissimis, 

 densis, distinctis, margine recurvatis, venis marginalibus dis- 



