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glabrous, 5 to 10 mm long. Panicles lateral, from the ultimate 

 branchlets, axillary and in the axils of fallen leaves, peduncled, 

 bipinnate, 8 to 10 cm long, the flowers racemosely arranged on the 

 primary branches, their pedicels 3 to 4 mm long. Flowers white, 

 about 8 mm in diameter. Calyx lobes orbicular, rounded, glan- 

 dular-punctate, margins ciliate. Corolla lobes oblong-elliptic, 

 glandular-punctate, glabrous, 4 mm long, somewhat acuminate. 

 Anthers lanceolate, acuminate, 2.5 mm long, the connectives 

 slightly glandular. 



Luzon, Ilocos Norte Province, between Bangui and Claveria, 

 Bur. Sci. 32982 Ramos, August 12, 1918, altitude about 500 

 meters. 



This species is well characterized by its numerous, relatively 

 large, regularly spaced glands, which are distinctly visible to 

 the naked eye on both surfaces of the leaf. Its alliance is with 

 Ardisia racemoso-pannicidata Mez, from which it is distinguished 

 not only by its very evident glands but also by its very slender 

 obscure nerves and practically obsolete reticulations. 



ARDISIA LONGIPETIOLATA sp. nov. § Pyrgus. 



Frutex glaber, ramis 6 ad 8 mm diametro; foliis confertis, 

 anguste oblongis ad oblongo-ellipticis, usque ad 30 cm longis, 

 integris vel obscurissime denticulatis, obtusis vel acutis, per- 

 spicue glanduloso-punctatis, nervis utrinque circiter 12; petiolo 

 4 ad 7 cm longo ; paniculis circiter 30 cm longis, ramis inf eriori- 

 bus 9 ad 12 cm longis, floribus subumbellatim dispositis, sepalis 

 punctatis, margine ciliatis; fructibus circiter 1 cm diametro. 



A glabrous shrub, the branches terete, reddish-brown, 6 to 8 

 mm in diameter. Leaves pseudoverticillate, usually about 6 

 crowded at the end of each branch, narrowly oblong to oblong- 

 elliptic or oblong-oblanceolate, 23 to 30 cm long, 6 to 10 cm 

 wide, entire, or very obscurely toothed, apex obtuse to acute, 

 base rounded, acute, or somewhat acuminate, when dry grayish 

 or greenish olivaceous, shining, the lower surface rather densely 

 glandular-puncticulate with dark-colored glands; lateral nerves 

 usually about 12 on each side of the midrib, prominent, curved, 

 anastomosing, the reticulations distinct ; petioles 4 to 7 cm long, 

 somev/hat triangular. Panicles terminal, peduncled, about 30 

 cm long, the low^er primary branches 9 to 12 cm long, the flowers 

 subumbellately arranged at the tips of the primary branches. 

 Pedicels about 1.5 cm long, thickened upward. Persistent 

 calyx about 7 mm in diameter, the lobes ovate, acute, about 3 

 mm long, glandular-punctate, the margins ciliate. Fruits gla- 



