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2 or 3 greatly reduced, narrowly lanceolate leaves about 1.5 cm 

 in length, the apical 1 to 2 cm slightly thickened, about 1.5 mm 

 in diameter, these thickened parts supplied with many narrowly 

 lanceolate, acuminate bracts 5 to 10 mm in length and marked 

 with numerous scars of fallen bracts, this thickened portion 

 bearing 1 or 2 slender, few-flowered racemes 1 to 1.5 cm long. 

 Flowers 5-merous, reddish; the sepals narrowly oblong, about 

 1 mm long, with few, large, prominent glands. 



Mindanao, Surigao Province, Bur. Sci. 3H56 Ramos & Pas- 

 casio, April 14, 1919, on rocky forested slopes at low altitudes. 



This species is similar and manifestly closely allied to Dis- 

 cocalyx angustissima Merr., from which it is distinguished by its 

 entire leaves. 



EBENACEAE 



DIOSPYROS Linnaeus 

 DIOSPYROS LONGICILIATA sp. nov. 



Frutex parvus, ramulis et petiolis et foliis perspicue longe 

 ciliatis, ramis ramulisque tenuibus; foliis chartaceis, oblongo- 

 lanceolatis, 9 ad 16 cm longis, basi rotundatis, apice tenuiter 

 acute acuminatis, nervis utrinque circiter 12; floribus longe cil- 

 iatis, axillaribus, solitariis, sessilibus, calycis tubo brevissimo, 

 lobis lanceolatis, acuminatis, circiter 4 mm longis ; ovario densis- 

 sime ciliato. 



A small shrub, the branchlets, petioles and portions of the 

 leaves prominently ciliate with long, slender, spreading hairs, 

 these hairs usually about 2 to 3 mm in length. Branches slender, 

 erect, glabrous, black when dry. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, char- 

 taceous, 9 to 16 cm long, 2 to 3.5 cm wide, brownish-olivaceous 

 when dry, base rounded, apex rather slenderly and sharply 

 acuminate, both surfaces and the margins long-ciliate with scat- 

 tered hairs, these more numerous on the midrib than on other 

 parts of the leaf; lateral nerves slender, about 12 on each side 

 of the midrib, anastomosing, the reticulations lax, distinct; pet- 

 ioles about 3 mm long. Pistillate flowers solitary, axillary, 

 sessile, 4-merous. Calyx-tube very short, the lobes lanceolate, 

 prominently long-acuminate from a broad base, about 4 mm long, 

 conspicuously long-ciliate. Corolla reddish, the tube about 5 

 mm long, externally long-ciliate, the lobes oblong, about 6 mm 

 in length. Staminodes 4. Ovary very densely ciliate with long 

 ascending hairs up to 4 mm in length; style densely hirsute 

 below. 



DiNAGAT, Bur. Sci. 35189, Ramos & Pascasio, May 11, 1919, 

 in forests at low altitudes. 



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