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about 15 on each side of the midrib, spreading, these and the 

 ultimate reticulations projecting and very distinct on both 

 surfaces ; petioles about 1 cm long. Panicles terminal, about 25 

 cm long, the flowers racemosely arranged on the ultimate branch- 

 lets, the younger parts of the inflorescences more or less puberu- 

 lent, the ultimate branchlets up to 5 cm in length. Flowers 

 white, 5-merous, their pedicels about 0.5 mm long, the bracts 

 ovate, nearly as long as the pedicels. Calyx puberulent, 2 mm 

 in diameter, shallowly 5-lobed, with few brown, conspicuous 

 glands, the lobes triangxilar-ovate, acute, 0.5 mm long and as 

 broad as long, the margins slightly ciliate. Petals oblong-elliptic, 

 2 to 2.2 mm long, nearly glabrous outside, inside rather densely 

 papillate-puberulent, the glands few, brown, conspicuous. Fila- 

 ments 2 mm long, glabrous, the connectives glandular in the 

 upper one-half. 



Mindanao, Bukidnon Subprovince, near Tankulan, Bur. Sci. 

 39069 Ramos & Edano, July 20, 1920. In thickets along streams 

 at an altitude of about 900 meters ; locally known as kalumai. 



This species belongs in the group with Emhelia javanica A. 

 DC. and among the Philippine forms is apparently most closely 

 allied to Emhelia urdanetensis Elm., from which it is distin- 

 guished by its larger, differently shaped leaves, which are 

 rounded and not acute at the base. 



EMBELIA LUZONIENSIS sp. nov. § Pattara. 



Frutex scandens, inflorescentiis exceptis glaber; ramis 2 mm 

 diametro; foliis oblongo-ovatis ad elliptico-ovatis, 5.5 ad 8 cm 

 longis, chartaceis, utrinque angustatis, apice obtusis ad obscure 

 obtuse acuminatis, basi acutis, in siccitate brunneis, subtus pal- 

 lidioribus et plus minusve punctatis, nervis utrinque circiter 8, 

 perspicuis; inflorescentiis plerumque axillaribus, racemosis, so- 

 litariis vel binis, circiter 2 cm longis, brunneo-glanduloso-pubes- 

 centibus ; floribus manifeste pedicellatis, 5-meris, sepalis oblongis, 

 1 mm longis, glandulosis, pubescentibus ; petalis ellipticis, sym- 

 metries, rotundatis, 2 mm longis, glabris, glandulis paucis per- 

 spicuis instructis; filamentis glabris, 3 mm longis. 



A scandent shrub, glabrous except the inflorescences, branches 

 slender, terete, brown, about 2 mm in diameter, obscurely 

 lenticellate. Leaves oblong-ovate to elliptic-ovate, 5.5 to 8 cm 

 long, 3 to 4 cm wide, subequally narrowed to the obtuse or 

 obscurely and obtusely acuminate apex and to the acute base, 

 dark brown when dry, scarcely shining, the lower surface paler 

 than the upper and distinctly glandular-punctate especially near 



