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Mindanao, Surigao Province, Placer, Wenzel 1866, July 4, 1916, in forests, 

 altitude about 150 meters, 



A strongly marked species, well characterized by its entirely glabrous 

 leaves and slenderly pedicelled flowers. The almost entire absence of in- 

 dumentum of any type is rather remarkable, as most of the Indo-Malayan 

 species of the genus are prominently pubescent, setose, or ciliate. In the 

 present species the indumentum is reduced to small, widely scattered, closely 

 appressed scales, and these only on the yoxmger parts of the plant. 



FLACOURTIACEAE 



CASEARIA Linnaeus 

 CASEARIA EUPHLEBIA sp. nov. 



Frutex glaber, ramis ramuli&que teretibus; foliis integris, 

 chartaceis vel subcoriaceis, oblongo-ovatis ad oblongo-ellipticis, 

 usque ad 13 cm longis, acuminatis, basi subacutis ad rotundatis, 

 aequilateralibus vel leviter inaequilateralibus, distincte pellucido- 

 punctatis, nervis utrinque circiter 7, subtus valde prominentibus ; 

 floribus axillaribus, solitariis, breviter pedicellatis, circiter 4 mm 

 longis, filamentis cum staminoideis adnatis. 



A glabrous shrub about 2 m high, the branches pale-grayish, 

 somewhat shining, wrinkled when dry, slender, terete. Leaves 

 greenish-olivaceous and somewhat shining when dry, firmly char- 

 taceous to subcoriaceous, oblong-ovate to oblong-elliptic, 6 to 13 

 cm long, 3.5 to 6 cm wide, entire, apex distinctly acuminate, base 

 equilateral or somewhat inaequilateral, subacute to rounded, in 

 transmitted light distinctly and minutely pellucid-punctate and 

 with scattered, elongated, larger, translucent dashes; lateral 

 nerves 7 on each side of the midrib, very prominent on the 

 lower surface, curved, anastomosing, the reticulations distinct, 

 rather fine; petioles 3 to 5 mm in length. Flowers solitary, 

 axillary, their pedicels 2 to 2.5 mm long. Sepals somewhat punc- 

 ticulate, elliptic, rounded, about 4 mm long. Staminodes oblong, 

 about 1.5 mm long and 0.7 mm wide, obtuse or truncate and 

 slightly pubescent at the apex, the anthers oblong, 0.7 mm in 

 length. Ovary glabrous. Young fruit red, oblong, obtuse, 

 about 1.5 cm long. 



Leyte, Tigbao, near Tacloban, Wenzel 1508, June 3, 1915. 

 A species well characterized by its distinctly pellucid-puncticulate, 

 prominently nerved, entire leaves, and its solitary flowers. 



CASEARIA CONFERTIFLORA sp. nov. 



Frutex circiter 3 m altus, ramulis et floribus et subtus foliis 

 molliter pubescentibus ; foliis inaequilateralibus, ovatis ad late 

 oblongo-ovatis, usque ad 11 cm longis, breviter obtuseque acum- 

 inatis, margine crenatis, basi late oblique subtruncatis, nervis 



