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uniformly ferruginous-pubescent. Calyx-tube turbinate, about 

 2 mm long, the lobes 5, narrowly oblong, pubescent, 6 mm long, 



2 mm wide. Corolla-tube about 9 mm long, pubescent externallj% 

 glabrous within, inflated below, narrowed above, the lobes ovate, 

 obtuse, 5 mm long. Stamens 10, their filaments glabrous, 2 mm 

 long; anthers linear-lanceolate, slenderly acuminate, glabrous, 



3 mm long. Rudimentary ovary ferruginous-villous. 



Luzon, Tayabas Province, Mount Binuang, Bur. Sci. 28489 Ramos & 

 Edano, May 21, 1917, on forested ridges at low or medium altitudes. 



This species greatly resembles Diospyros pilosanthera Blanco to which 

 it is apparently most closely allied. It is readily distinguished by its 

 indumentum, 



SAPOTACEAE 



BASSIA Koenig- 

 BASSIA CAGAYANENSIS sp. nov. 



Arbor circiter 15 m alta, floribus exceptis glabra; foliis oblon- 

 gis ad oblongo-lanceolatis, subcoriaceis, usque ad 20 cm longis, 

 perspicue acuminatis, basi subacutis, interdum leviter inaequi- 

 lateralibus, nervis utrinque circiter 15, distinctis, reticulis baud 

 perspicuis; petiolis 2.5 ad 4 cm longis; fructibus oblongis, cir- 

 citer 2.5 cm longis, glabris, sepalis persistentibus, ovatis, circiter 

 8 mm longis, dense adpresseque pubescentibus. 



A tree about 15 m high, glabrous except the flowers and the 

 very tips of the branchlets. Branches grayish-brown, terete. 

 Leaves oblong to oblong-lanceolate, subcoriaceous, pale and shin- 

 ing when dry, 13 to 20 cm long, 4 to 7 cm wide, narrowed up- 

 ward to the rather prominently acuminate apex, the base sub- 

 acute and often slightly inequilateral; lateral nerves about 15 

 on each side of the midrib, distinct, anastomosing, the reticula- 

 tions not prominent; petioles 2.5 to 4 cm long. Fruits axillary, 

 solitary or fascicled, oblong, olivaceous when dry, about 2.5 cm 

 long and 1 cm thick, tipped by the slender style, their pedicels 

 about 1.5 cm long. Sepals 4, persistent, ovate, coriaceous, ap- 

 pressed-pubescent with pale-brownish hairs, acute or slightly 

 acuminate, about 8 mm long. 



Luzon, Cagayan Province, Buyon, tor. Bur. 2688S Bernardo, January 17, 

 1917, in dense forests, altitude about 15 meters, the fruits edible; locally 

 known as gasatan. 



This species is distinguished among the comparatively few Philippine 

 representatives of the genus by its oblong to oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 comparatively long-petioled leaves. 



