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about 2 mm long. Flowers axillary, solitary or few in a fascicle, 

 their pedicels about 5 mm long, the apical bracteoles connate, 

 broadly ovate, acute or slightly acuminate, margins sparingly 

 ciliate, 1.5 mm long. Calyx about 2 mm long, the lobes broadly 

 ovate, obtuse, 1.5 mm long, their margins slightly ciliate. Corolla 

 not seen. Fruit soft, fleshy, bluish-black, when dry brownish or 

 black, about 5 mm long. 



Luzon, Benguet Subprovince, Pauai, Bur. Sci. 317 8 J^ Santos 

 April 22, 1918 (type). Bur. Sci. 8509 McGregor, June, 1909, 

 For. Bur. 1H3U Darling, January, 1909, Copeland, s. n., May, 

 1913, in the mossy forest, altitude about 2,300 meters. Igorot 

 name dugui-is. 



Among the Philippine species this is most closely allied to 

 Diplycosia calelanensis Elm., from which it is readily distin- 

 guished by its nerves being obsolete on the lower surface of the 

 leaves. Among the extra-Philippine species its alliance is mani- 

 festly with the Javan Diplycosia heterophylla Blume, but its 

 leaves are different in shape, never acuminate, with shorter 

 petioles, while the venation is distinctly different. 



MYRSINACEAE 



ARDISIA Swartz 

 AROISIA ILOCANA sp. nov. § Akosmos. 



Frutex, ramulis inflorescentiisque castaneo-pubescentibus ex- 

 ceptis glaber; foliis oblongis, membranaceis ad chartaceis, 6 ad 

 12 cm longis, basi acutis, apice leviter acuminatis, integris, 

 utrinque glandulis perspicuis instructis, nervis utrinque 15 ad 

 20, tenuibus, subobscuris, reticulis obsoletis ; inflorescentiis bipin- 

 natim paniculatis, 8 ad 10 cm longis, pedunculatis, plerumque e 

 axillis defoliatis; floribus racemose dispositis, circiter 8 mm 

 diametro, calycis lobis orbicularibus, leviter ciliatis, petalis punc- 

 tato-glandulosis, leviter acuminatis. 



An erect shrub, the branchlets and inflorescences distinctly 

 castaneous-pubescent, otherwise glabrous. Leaves oblong, mem- 

 branaceous to chartaceous, 6 to 12 cm long, 2 to 3.5 cm wide, 

 base acute, apex somewhat acuminate, somewhat olivaceous and 

 slightly shining when dry, both surfaces with numerous, rela- 

 tively large glands which are distinctly visible to the naked eye 

 and which occur at fairly regular intervals on all parts of the leaf ; 

 lateral nerves 15 to 20 on each side of the midrib, very slender, 

 not prominent, obscurely anastomosing, the reticulations obso- 

 lete or nearly so ; petioles pubescent when young, soon becoming 



