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densely pubescent, 2.5 to 3.5 cm long; stipules linear, pubescent, 

 caducous, 9 to 13 mm long. Flowers crowded on the ultimate 

 branchlets with or just below the leaves, the pedicels and calyces 

 densely and softly ferruginous-pubescent, the former 1.5 to 2 

 cm long. Calyx lobes 4, 2-seriate, oblong-elliptic, obtuse, about 

 12 mm long, 6 mm wide. Ovary glabrous, 10-celled. Petals 

 and stamens not seen. Fruits oblong-ellipsoid, brown, obtuse, 

 about 4 cm long. 



Luzon, Camarines Province, Nabua, For. Bur. 28399 Labitag, 

 April 30, 1921. In primary dipterocarp forest at an altitude 

 of about 200 meters, with the local name banites. The same 

 species is represented by Merrill 2601 from Tayabas Province, 

 Luzon, as well as by imperfect sterile specimens including seed- 

 lings collected by Ware, Hagger, and Garcia in Camarines and 

 Tayabas Provinces. A sterile specimen from Cotabato District, 

 Mindanao, collected by Hutchinson, undoubtedly represents the 

 same species. Additional native names are manilig (Mag.) ; 

 betis and betis lalake (Tag.) . 



This species is manifestly closely allied to Madhuca betis' 

 (Blanco) Merr. and several of the specimens cited above were 

 originally referred to that species. Madhuca betis, however, 

 has the leaves very densely and softly pubescent on the lower 

 surface, while in the present species they are glabrous or nearly 

 so on both surfaces. 



OLEACEAE 



LINOCIERA Swartz 

 LINOCIERA LONGIFOLIA sp. nov. 



Arbor parva, glabra; foliis lanceolatis ad oblongo-lanceolatis, 

 22 ad 30 cm longis, 5 ad 7 cm latis, coriaceis, utrinque angustatis, 

 basi plus minusve decurrento-acuminatis, apice obtusis, nervis 

 utrinque 13 ad 15, tenuibus, anastomosantibus, reticulis sub- 

 obsoletis; inflorescentiis axillaribus, solitariis, paniculatis, 4 cm 

 longis, floribus subumbellatim dispositis, pedicellatis ; calycis cu- 

 pulatis, 1.5 mm diametro, breviter 4-lobatis, lobis triangulari- 

 ovatis, . acutis vel obtusis. 



A glabrous tree about 10 m high, the branchlets distinctly com- 

 pressed at the nodes. Leaves lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 22 

 to 30 cm long, 5 to 7 cm wide, coriaceous, rather pale when dry, 

 opposite, entire, narrowed below to the somewhat decurrent- 

 acuminate base and above to the obtuse apex, more or less 

 verruculose ; nerves 13 to 15 on each side of the midrib, slender, 

 slightly projecting on the lower surface, anastomosing, the retic- 



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