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villous branchlets and lower surface of the leaves and in its 

 slenderly caudate-acuminate leaves which are more numerously 

 nerved than in the latter species. 



CLEISTANTHUS Hooker f. 

 CLEISTANTHUS BARROSII sp. nov. § Ferruginosi. 



Arbor circiter 8 m alta, ramulis et petiolis et subtus foliis 

 ad costa nervisque f errugineo-pubescentibus ; foliis chartaceis, 

 olivaceis, nitidis, oblongo-ovatis ad oblongo-ellipticis, 14 ad 20 

 cm longis, 5 ad 8 cm latis, acuminatis, basi acutis, nervis utrinque 

 circiter 8, perspicuis; fasciculis ferrugineo-pubescentibus, ca- 

 lycis tube 1.4 mm longo, lobis oblongo-lanceolatis, acuminatis, 

 tubo aequantibus, petalis obovatis, circiter 1 mm longis ; f ructibus 

 obovoideis, 8 ad 10 mm longis, retusis, junioribus parce ferru- 

 gineo-villosis, vetustioribus glabris vel subglabris. 



A tree about 8 m high, the branchlets, petioles, and midribs 

 and nerves on the lower surface of the leaves rather densely 

 ferruginous-pubescent. Branches terete, smooth, glabrous, 3 

 to 4 mm in diameter, grayish or brownish when dry. Leaves 

 oblong-ovate to oblong-elliptic, 14 to 20 cm long, 5 to 8 cm wide, 

 chartaceous, olivaceous, somewhat shining, distinctly acuminate, 

 base acute, the upper surface entirely glabrous; lateral nerves 

 about 8 on each side of the midrib, prominent, ascending, the 

 reticulations distinct; petioles about 1 cm long. Fascicles 

 axillary, densely ferruginous-pubescent, the bracts broadly ovate, 

 slightly acuminate, about 3 mm long. Pistillate calyx appressed- 

 pubescent, the tube about 1.4 mm long, the lobes oblong-lan- 

 ceolate, somewhat acuminate, about as long as the tube. Petals 

 obovate, 1 mm long or less. Fruits reddish-yellow when fresh, 

 dark-brown when dry, distinctly stipitate, ellipsoid or obovoid, 

 retuse, 8 to 10 mm long, the younger ones sparingly ferruginous- 

 villous, in age glabrous or nearly so. 



Luzon, Isabela Province, Ilagan, For. Bur. 26070 Barros, June 

 23, 1916. In primary forests on slopes at an altitude of about 

 200 meters. 



A species belonging in the section Ferruginosi and apparently 

 most closely allied to Cleistanthus rufescens Jabl, 



CLEIDION Blume 

 CLEIDION RAMOSII (Merr.) comb. nov. 



Mallotus ramosii Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 7 (1912) Bot. 401; 



Pax & Hoffm. in Engl. Pflanzenreich 63 (1914) 195. 

 Mallotus samarensis Merr. op. cit. 9 (1914) 488; Pax & Hoffm. op. cit. 



68 (1919) 18. 



