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2.5 to 6 cm wide, entire, chartaceous, pale olivaceous when dry, 

 subequally narrowed to the somewhat acuminate apex and 

 abruptly obtuse base ; the lower surface conspicuously glandular- 

 punctate, especially near the margins, the glands often nearly 

 black; lateral nerves about 15 on each side of the midrib, slender, 

 distinct as are the reticulations. Inflorescences very short, 

 racemose or depauperate-paniculate, 1 to 1.5 cm long, one to sev- 

 eral, from the tip of the short, specialized, extra-axillary, lateral 

 branches, these specialized branches 1 cm long or less, about 2 

 mm in diameter, marked with numerous, conspicuous scars of 

 fallen peduncles, the apical bracts lanceolate, acuminate, 3 to 4 

 mm long. Flowers 5-merous, their pedicels up to 2 mm long. 

 Calyx and corolla very conspicuously black-glandular, the calyx 

 lobes triangular-ovate, acute or obtuse, 0.8 mm long. Petals 

 elliptic-obovate, obtuse, 3 mm long. Filaments and anthers each 

 about 1 mm long. Ovary equaling the style in length, glandular. 



Mindanao, Zamboanga District, Bur. Sci. 37Jt63 Ramos & 

 Edano, December, 1919. Along streams in forests at low al- 

 titudes. 



A species allied to Discocalyx sessilifolia Merr. but with thin- 

 ner, rather slenderly acuminate, prominently glandular-punctate 

 leaves, and with very much shorter inflorescences. 



DISCOCALYX PHANEROPHLEBIA sp. nov. 



Frutex erectus, simplex, caulis sursum 1.5 ad 2 cm diametro; 

 foliis oblanceolatis ad oblongo-oblanceolatis, 45 ad 60 cm longis, 

 coriaceis, olivaceis, acutis, deorsum angustatis, margine deorsum 

 integris, sursum dentatis vel crenato-dentatis, costa subtus valde 

 incrassata, nervis utrinque circiter 20, supra impressis, subtus 

 valde perspicuis; infructescentiis paniculatis, 2.5 ad 6 cm longis, 

 in ramis specialibus lateralibus incrassatis 5 ad 10 cm longis dis- 

 positis ; f ructibus globosis, 8 mm diametro, calycis persistentibus 

 5-meris, 3 mm diametro, lobis late ovatis, obtusis, glanduloso- 

 punctatis. 



An erect, apparently unbranched, glabrous shrub 1 to 2 m 

 high, the leaves crowded near the apex of the trunk, the stem 

 here 1.5 to 2 cm in diameter. Leaves oblanceolate to oblong- 

 oblancolate, 45 to 60 cm long, coriaceous, the upper surface 

 olivaceous when dry, the lower surface much paler and not, 

 or very inconspicuously, punctate, the apex acute, gradually 

 narrowed below to the long-decurrent base, the margins in the 

 lower one-fourth to one-third entire, above rather closely dentate 

 or crenate-dentate, the teeth small; midrib very prominent on 



