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cm wide, thickly coriaceous, shining, narrowed below to the 

 cuneate base and above to the acute or shortly acuminate apex; 

 lateral nerves about 14 on each side of the midrib, distant, 

 anastomosing, prominent, the reticulations very distinct on both 

 surfaces; petioles stout, about 2 cm long. Fruits solitary, their 

 peduncles about 5 cm long, appressed-pubescent, the rachis of 

 the infructescence 5 to 6 cm long, the individual carpels ap- 

 parently few, bro\vn when dry, 1.5 to 3 cm long, 1 to 1.5 cm 

 wide, their tips blunt, not at all prolonged into a beak. 



DiNAGAT, Bur. Sci. 35187 Ramos & Pascasid, May 12, 1919, 

 in forests at low altitudes. 



This species in its vegetative character resembles Talauma 

 angatensis F.-Vill., but has narrower, differently shaped, more 

 conspicously reticulate leaves ; it further differs from the latter 

 species in its apparently few carpels which are merely blunt 

 at their apices, not at all beaked. 



ANNONACEAE 



OXYMITRA Hooker f. and Thomson 



OXYMITRA OLIGOPHLEBIA sp. nov. 



Frutex scandens, ramulis floribusque exceptis glaber, ramis 

 tenuibus; foliis chartaceis vel subcoriaceis, oblongis ad oblongo- 

 lanceolatis, usque ad 10 cm longis, basi rotundatis, sursum an- 

 gustatis, acutis vel leviter acuminatis, olivaceis, nitidis, subtus 

 brunneis, nervis utrinque plerumque 5, tenuibus, distinctis; 

 floribus extra-axillaribus, solitariis, circiter 3 cm longis, lan- 

 ceolatis, ferrugineo-pubescens, longetenuiterque pedicellatis. 



A scandent shrub, glabrous except the very slightly pubes- 

 cent branchlets and the rather densely ferruginous-pubescent 

 flowers; the branches terete, slender, about 3 mm in diameter, 

 shining, dark reddish-brown when dry. Leaves firmly char- 

 taceous or subcoriaceous, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 6 to 10 

 cm long, 2 to 3.5 cm wide, the base rounded, narrowed upward 

 to the acute or slightly acuminate apex, the upper surface oliva- 

 ceous, shining, the lower surface brownish; lateral nerves 

 usually 5 on each side of the midrib, slender, distinct, curved, 

 the reticulations not prominent; petioles about 3 mm long. 

 Flowers yellow, solitary, extra-axillary, about 3 cm long, lan- 

 ceolate, acuminate, their pedicels up to 2.5 cm long, slender, 

 sparingly pubescent with a small bract below the midrib. Ca- 

 lyx-lobes triangular-ovate, pubescent, acuminate, about 3 mm 

 long. Outer petals when young densely ferruginous-pubescent, 

 the indumentum more or less scattered in age. 



