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'Leyte, Tigbao, near Tacloban, Wenzel 1240, May, 1915, a vine with 

 greenish flowers, reaching a height of about 10 meters. 



A species well characterized by its prominently corniculate, pubescent 

 petals, in vegetative characters resembling Tetrastigma sepulchrei Merr,, 

 but apparently not closely allied to that species. 



ELAEOCARPACEAE 



ELAEOCARPUS Linnaeus 

 ELAEOCARPUS BONTOCENSIS sp. nov, § Dicera. 



Arbor circiter 8 m alta, partibus junioribus inflorescentiisque 

 exceptis glabra ; f oliis coriaceis, nitidis, elliptico-ovatis, usque ad 

 7 cm longis, utrinque subaequaliter angustatis, basi acutis, apice 

 breviter obtuseque acuminatis, margine crenato-serrulatis, nervis 

 utrinque circiter 5, axillis glandulosis; racemis leviter pubes- 

 centibus, axillaribus, solitariis, 1 ad 2 cm longis, paucifloris; 

 floribus 4- et 5-meris, parvis ; petalis margine parcissime ciliatis, 

 apice breviter laceratis; staminibus 20, obtusis, baud ciliatis; 

 ovario 3-locellato, puberulo. 



A tree about 8 m high, glabrous except the very young parts 

 and the sparingly pubescent racemes. Branches terete, reddish- 

 brown, rather slender, the tips of the branchlets more or less 

 appressed-pubescent. Leaves elliptic-ovate, coriaceous, rather 

 pale when dry, shining, 4 to 7 cm long, 2 to 4 cm wide, subequally 

 narrowed to the acute base and short, blunt-acuminate apex, 

 margins distinctly crenate-serrate ; lateral nerves about 5 on each 

 side of the midrib, rather prominent, their axils glandular, retic- 

 ulations slender, rather lax ; petioles 1 to 1.5 cm long. Racemes 

 axillary, solitary, short, few-flowered, 1 to 2 cm long, sparingly 

 pubescent. Flowers small, 4- and 5-merous, their pedicels about 

 4 mm long. Sepals oblong-ovate, acute, slightly pubescent, 4 

 mm long, 2 mm wide. Petals oblong-obovate to obovate, about 

 3.5 mm long, 2 mm wide, margins and surface inside in the lower 

 part very sparingly ciliate with slender, white hairs, the apical 



1 to 1.5 mm cut into 10 to 12 narrow divisions, none of these 

 more than 1 mm in length. Stamens 20, 2 to 2.5 mm long, 

 the filaments short, the anthers narrow, obtuse, scabrid, the 

 cells equal, not awned or ciliate. Disk gray-puberulent. Ovary 

 ovoid, densely gray-puberulent, 3-celled; style puberulent, about 



2 mm long. 



Luzon, Bontoc Subprovince, Bauco, Vanoverbergh 3892, January, 1914, 

 in forests, altitude about 1,700 meters, the flowers pink. 



A species well characterized by its very short, few-flowered racemes; 

 4- and 5-merous, small flowers ; its very short petal-segments, very sparingly 

 ciliate petals; and obtuse, not at all awned or ciliate anthers. 



