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brownish, the very young branchlets slightly pubescent. Leaves 

 oblong-elliptic, subcoriaceous, rather pale and shining when dry, 

 the lower surface paler than the upper, but scarcely glaucous, 

 about 35 cm long and 15 cm wide, the base acute, the apex 

 abruptly acuminate, the acumen usually about 1 cm long ; lateral 

 nerves about 22 on each side of the midrib, very prominent on 

 the lower surface, the reticulations distinct, the primary ones 

 leaving the nerves at about right angles ; petioles 2 to 3 cm long. 

 Staminate panicles terminal, about 50 cm long, many-jflowered, 

 the lower branches up to 30 cm long. Flowers somewhat fas- 

 cicled on the branchlets, rather densely ferruginous-pubescent, 

 sessile or with very short pedicels, 5 to 6 mm in diameter. 

 Calyx about 3 mm in diameter, the lobes triangular, acute, about 

 1 mm long. Petals oblong-lanceolate, acute, 2.8 mm long, densely 

 ferruginous-pubescent externally. Filaments 1.5 to 3 mm long. 



Mindanao, Surigao Province, Bur. Sci. 3U772 Ramos & Pas- 

 casio, June 19, 1919, along streams at low altitudes. 



This species is well characterized by its ample, glabrous leaves, 

 and its very large, ferruginous-pubescent panicles. It is ap- 

 parently most closely allied to the Moluccan Semecarpus cassu- 

 vium Roxb. and has no close allies among the known Philippine 

 species. 



AQUIFOLIACEAE 



ILEX Linnaeus 

 ILEX CURRANII sp. nov. § Euilex, Rugosae. 



Arbor parva, glabra, circiter 3 m alta ; f oliis eglandulosis, nu- 

 merosis, coriaceis, olivaceis, nitidis, ovatis, 1 ad 1.5 cm longis, 

 basi acutis ad rotundatis, sursum angustatis, apice breviter acu- 

 minatis, margine crenatis, nervis utrinque circiter 6, subtus cum 

 reticulis prominulis ; floribus axillaribus, f asciculatis vel solitariis, 

 4-meris, calycis lobis leviter ciliatis; fructibus globosis, 5 mm 

 diametro, pyrenis 4. 



A glabrous shrub, or small tree, about 3 m high, the branches 

 rather pale, the branchlets nearly black when dry. Leaves co- 

 riaceous, ovate, 1 to 1.5 cm long, 7 to 12 mm wide, olivaceous, 

 shining, not glandular, the base acute to rounded, the apex 

 shortly and bluntly acuminate, margins distinctly crenate, the 

 crenulations often with an indurated, incurved tip; lateral 

 nerves about 6 on each side of the midrib, somewhat impressed 

 on the upper surface, distinct on the lower surface as are the 

 reticulations ; petioles 2 to 4 mm long. Fruits subglobose, about 

 5 mm in diameter, somewhat rugose and nearly black when dry, 

 containing 4 pyrenes, the persistent calyx about 2 mm in 



