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leaves, which are truncately rounded at the apex and which vary exceed.- 

 ingly in size and somewhat in shape. It is apparently most closely allied 

 to Vavaea pachyphylla Merr., but its leaves are entirely different in texture 

 and have much shorter petioles than is the case with the latter species. 



VAVAEA PACHYPHYLLA sp. nov. 



Frutex vel arbor parva, ramis incrassatis, partibus junioribus 

 et inflorescentiis plus minusve adpresse f ulvo-pubescentibus ; 

 foliis crasse coriaceis, obovatis, usque ad 13 cm longis, apice 

 latissime rotundatis, basi acutis, nitidis, nervis utrinque 7 vel 

 8, perspicuis, subtus ad costa nervisque pubescentibus ; cymis 

 sub fructu longe pedunculatis, parvis, 2.5 ad 3.5 cm diametro, 

 fructibus glabris, ovoideis, circiter 1 cm longis. 



A shrub or small tree (2 to 3 m high fide Ramos) , the branches 

 stout, brown, about 1 cm in diameter, the branchlets 5 to 7 mm 

 in diameter, or sometimes as thick as the branches, often marked 

 with numerous petiolar scars, glabrous except the growing tip 

 which is rather densely pubescent with pale-fulvous appressed 

 hairs. Leaves thickly coriaceous, rather pale when dry, obovate 

 to broadly obovate, 9 to 13 cm long, 6 to 9 cm wide, shining, 

 the apex broadly rounded, the base narrowed, acute, the upper 

 surface smooth, glabrous except for the pubescent midrib, the 

 lower surface distinctly reticulate, the veinlets raised, appressed- 

 pubescent on the midrib and lateral nerves; nerves 7 or 8 on 

 each side of the midrib, very prominent, curved, anastomosing; 

 petioles stout, pubescent, 1 to 1.5 cm long. Fruiting peduncles 

 axillary, solitary, 8 to 10 cm long, sparingly pubescent, the cymes 

 2.5 to 3.5 cm long and wide, the bracts subtending the primary 

 branches oblong, pubescent, up to 1 cm in length. Primary 

 branches few, stout, somewhat pubescent. Fruits ovoid, glab- 

 rous, about 1 cm long, the persistent calyx appressed-pubescent 

 with pale-fulvous hairs. 



Luzon, Tayabas Province, Mount Binuang, Bur. Sci. 28816 Ramos & 

 Edano, May 11, 1917, in the mossy forest, altitude apparently about 1,000 

 meters. I refer here without hesitation Bur. Sci. 28757 Ramos & Edano, 

 from the same locality, a specimen with juvenile, yet thickly coriaceous, 

 leaves 5 to 6 cm in length, and rather densely pubescent inflorescences with 

 very young flowers. 



The species is a most characteristic one and is readily distinguishable 

 by its very thickly coriaceous, obovate leaves which are broadly rounded 

 at their apices. 



BURSERACEAE 



CANARIUM Linnaeus 

 CANARIUM MICROPHYLLUM sp. nov. § Choriandra. 



Arbor parva, plus minusve puberulis vel pubescentibus; foliis 

 usque ad 17 cm longis, foliolis circiter 11, parvis, oblongo-ovatis. 



