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lobes somewhat spreading, oblong-ovate, shortly and abruptly 

 acuminate, about 8 cm wide, the central lobe oblong-obovate, 

 about 20 cm long and as wide as the lateral ones, the sinuses 

 rounded, 3 to 4 cm wide at this distance above the base of the 

 lobes ; petioles 18 to 22 cm long, the lower part with numerous, 

 spirally arranged crests, the crests prominently pectinate, the 

 laciniae slender, filiform, up to 1 cm in length, similar but siTialler 

 crests scattered along the petiole in the lower one-half or two- 

 thirds, the upper crests reduced to few lacinae. Umbels ter- 

 minal, peduncled, the peduncle about 3 cm long, glabrous. Pri- 

 mary branches of the inflorescence about 15, crowded, about 4 

 cm long, sparingly furfuraceous, the subtending bracts lanceo- 

 late to oblong-lanceolate, about 1.5 cm long. Heads dense, about 

 1 cm in diameter. 



Luzon, Tayabas Province, Mount Binuang, Bur. Sci. 28752 Ramos & 

 Edano, May, 1917, without data. 



This species in many respects resembles Boerlagiodendron pectinatum 

 Merr., from which it is readily distinguished by its thinner, 3-lobed leaves 

 which are not acute at the base; its longer petioles with the pectinate 

 crests scattered along the lower one-half to tv.o-thirds; its much longer 

 bracts; and larger heads. From the species with 3-lobed leaves it is at 

 once distinguishable by its prominently pectinate crests. 



EBENACEAE 



DIOSPYROS Linnaeus 

 DIOSPYROS VELASCOI sp. nov. 



Arbor circiter 5 m alta, ramulis foliis junioribus subtus ad 

 costa nervisque calycibus et fructibus pilis longis ferrugineis 

 vestitis ; foliis oblongis ad oblongo-ovatis, usque ad 16 cm longis, 

 breviter petiolatis, basi late rotundatis, apice acute acuminatis, 

 nervis utrinque circiter 8, subtus valde prominentibus, anasto- 

 mosantibus; fructibus axillaribus, solitariis, sessilibus, ovoideis, 

 junioribus circiter 12 mm longis, in siccitate brunneis, nitidis, 

 acutis, pilis longis sparsis vestitis, ut videtur 1-locellatis, monos- 

 permis. 



A small tree about 5 m high, the young branchlets, younger 

 leaves on the midrib and lateral nerves, petioles, calyces, and 

 young fruits ciliate-pubescent. with long ferruginous hairs, the 

 older parts glabrous or nearly so. Older branches terete, smooth, 

 glabrous, sparingly lenticellete, slender. Leaves ovate to oblong- 

 ovate, chartaceous, brittle when dry, brown, shining, the lower 

 surface paler than the upper, 8 to 18 cm long, 2.5 to 7.5 cm wide, 

 base broadly rounded, apex acutely acuminate; lateral nerves 



