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MiNDORO, Mount Calavite, Bur. Sci. 39395, 39^08 Ramos. 

 Samar, Bur. Sci. 17^80 Ramos. Camiguin de Misamis, Bur. 

 Sci. H602 Ramos. Siargao, Bur. Sci. 35031, 3A829 Ramos. In 

 forests at low and medium altitudes, ascending to 1,000 meters. 



Additional material shows that the two species described by 

 me can scarcely be maintained as distinct, and further that the 

 species belongs in Cleidion rather than in Mallotus, although the 

 connectives are scarcely produced. The leaves are eglandular, 

 the staminate inflorescences are simply spicate, while the cap- 

 sules are glabrous, unarmed, and eglandular. The plant is 

 monoecious, the pistillate inflorescences being racemose, few- 

 flowered (sometimes only 1-flowered) and 4 to 12 cm long. 

 The capsules are composed of 3, dehiscent, glabrous cocci, and 

 are about 8 mm in diameter. Seeds mottled. 



ANACARDIACEAE 



MANGIFERA Linnaeus 

 MANGIFERA PARVIFOLIA sp. nov. 



Arbor, inflorescentiis exceptis glabra; foliis subcoriaceis, 

 oblongo-ovatis, 5 ad 10 cm longis, utrinque subaequaliter an- 

 gustatis, acuminatis, basi acutis, nervis utrinque circiter 10, 

 distinctis, paniculis pubescentibus, 4 ad 9 cm longis; floribus 

 4-meris, sepalis glabris, 2.5 mm longis, petalis subellipticis, ob- 

 tusis, 3.5 mm longis, deorsum perspicue 3-costatis, costae con- 

 fluentibus, sursum tenuibus, evanescentibus ; staminibus fertili- 

 bus 1, staminoideis 3, minutis; fructibus junioribus ellipsoideis, 

 2 cm longis, seminibus laevis. Species M. monandrae Merr. 

 aflfinis. 



A tree up to 20 m high, glabrous except the inflorescences. 

 Leaves subcoriaceous, oblong-ovate, rather pale when dry, 5 to 

 10 cm long, 2 to 3 cm wide, subequally narrowed to the acute 

 or somewhat decurrent base and to the distinctly acuminate 

 apex ; lateral nerves about 10 on each side of the midrib, slender, 

 distinct, projecting on both surfaces, the reticulations rather 

 distinct; petioles 1.5 to 2.5 cm long. Panicles terminal, pubes- 

 cent, 4 to 9 cm long. Flowers white, 4-merous. Sepals oblong- 

 ovate to oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, glabrous, about 2.5 mm long. 

 Petals elliptic to oblong-elliptic, obtuse, 3.5 mm long, prominently 

 3-costate in the lower half, the costae confluent below, attenuate 

 in the upper half and not reaching the margins and with two 

 lateral, slender nerves which are not thickened into distinct 

 ridges in the lower part. Disk thick, 4-lobed, wider than the 



