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no marginal veins. Inflorescences axillary, solitary or fascicled, 



1 to 1.5 cm long, cymose, their peduncles 4 mm long or less. 

 Flowers white, crowded, comparatively large, the funnel-shaped 

 calyces about 5 mm in diameter, the pedicels usually about 3 

 mm long. 



Luzon, Camarines Province, Paracale, Calaburnay, For. Bur. 27060 

 Magistrado, July 24, 1917, on slopes, altitude about 100 meters, with the 

 local name calasgas. 



This species greatly resembles Memecylon sessilifolium Merr., but dif- 

 fers radically in its terete, not prominently 4-angled branches and branch- 

 lets. Its much more numerous lateral nerves, shorter, dense inflorescences, 

 and its leaves not narrowed upward distinguish it from Memecylon pachy- 

 phyllum Merr. to which it is probably most closely allied. 



EVERETTIA Merrill 

 EVERETTIA OCTODONTA sp. nov. 



Species E. pulcherrimae similis, differt foliis laevis, glabris, 

 calycibus 8-dentatis. Arbor, partibus junioribus plus minusve 

 castaneo-pubescentibus exceptis glabra; foliis subcoriaceis, rigi- 

 dis, in siccitate viridis, anguste oblongis, longe petiolatis, usque 

 ad 13 cm longis, nervis primariis utrinque 20 ad 25, patulis, 

 distinctis, baud prominulis, utrinque acutis vel apice leviter 

 acuminatis; fructibus turbinatis, circiter 2 cm diametro, calycis 

 dentibus 8, oblongis ad oblongo-ovatis, acuminatis, usque ad 

 8 mm longis. 



A tree about 6 m high, entirely glabrous except the more 

 or less castaneous-pubescent very young parts. Branches terete, 

 glabrous, with few large lenticels. Leaves numerous, subco- 

 riaceous, rigid, brittle, narrowly oblong, 10 to 13 cm long, 2.5 

 to 4 cm wide, subequally narrowed to the acute base and apex, 

 or the apex somewhat acuminate, greenish or yellowish-green 

 and very minutely verruculose when dry, the nerves not at 

 all impressed or projecting; primary lateral nerves 20 to 25 

 on each side of the midrib, slender, spreading, anastomosing 

 close to the margin with the slender, nearly straight marginal 

 nerve, distinct, not projecting; petioles 3 to 4 cm long. Infruc- 

 tescence terminal, peduncled, the fruits few, turbinate, about 



2 cm in diameter, base truncate-rounded, the tube scarcely con- 

 stricted, the persistent teeth 8, coriaceous, oblong to oblong- 

 ovate, acuminate, often somewhat recurved, up to 8 mm in length. 



Catanduanes, in forests at low altitudes along the Santo Domingo 

 River, Bur. Set. S0556 Ramos, December 3, 1917. 



While in general appearance this species resembles Everettia pulcherrima 

 Merr., the only other known species of the genus, it differs radically in that 

 the nerves are not at all impressed or raised, while the calyx is prominently 

 8-toothed. 



