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late. Leaves broadly ovate to oblong-ovate, chartaceous to sub- 

 coriaceous, dull or slightly shining when dry, the upper surface 

 subolivaceous, the lower brown, both surfaces supplied with 

 slender, obscure, irregular, longitudinal, nerve-like lines, 9 to 

 14 cm long, 5 to 9 cm wide, the apex shortly and obtusely 

 acuminate, base subtruncate-rounded to subacute, margins 

 coarsely undulate, each undulation tipped with a thickened cre- 

 nate callosity; lateral nerves 5 or 6 on each side of the midrib, 

 prominent, curved, very obscurely anastomosing, the reticula- 

 tions obsolete or nearly so; petioles 1.5 to 3 cm long. Infructes- 

 cences axillary, solitary, depauperate-paniculate, 3 to 4 cm long, 

 the branches few, spreading, 3 cm long or less. Fruits ellipsoid- 

 ovoid, about 5 mm long, their pedicels about 3 mm long. Calyx- 

 teeth broadly ovate, obtuse, about 1 mm long and 1.5 mm wide, 

 very obscurely puncticulate, not lineate, the margins very min- 

 utely and obscurely ciliate. 



Catanduanes, Mount Mariguidon, Bur. Sci. 30500 (type) , 30S08 Ramos, 

 November and December, 1917, in forests. 



This species manifestly belongs in the group with Maesa denticulata 

 Mez, from which species it is distinguished by its thicker, larger leaves 

 which are prominently undulate, brown beneath when dry, and by its 

 obsolete or nearly obsolete reticulations. Maesa platyphylla Elm. is dis- 

 tinguished by its more numerously nerved, nearly entire leaves, while 

 M. megaphylla Merr. has much larger, more numerously nerved, entire 

 leaves and very much longer inflorescences. 



EBENACEAE 



DIOSPYROS Linnaeus 

 DIOSPYROS STREPTOSEPALA sp. nov. 



Arbor parva, foliis subtus ad costa, ramulis, petiolis, et 

 fructibus parce longissime ciliatis; foliis oblongo-ovatis ad 

 ovato lanceolatis, usque ad 17 cm longis, basi late rotundatis, 

 plerumque leviter cordatis, sursum angustatis, acuminatis, supra 

 glabris, brunneo-olivaceis, subtus pallidis, nervis utrinque circi- 

 ter 8, tenuibus, distinctis, reticulis laxis ; fructibus ovoideis, cir- 

 citer 2 cm longis, pericarpio fragile, extus perspicue longissime 

 ciliato ; seminibus 2, ovato-ellipticis, plano-convexis, circiter 1 cm 

 longis, albumine aequabile; sepalis 4, persistentibus, circiter 1 

 cm longis, longe filiformiter caudatis. 



A small tree, 5 m high fide Ramos, the leaves beneath es- 

 pecially near the midrib, the branchlets, and the petioles with 

 few, widely scattered, slender, spreading, about 3 mm long hairs, 

 these more numerous on the fruits. Branches dark-brown 

 or nearly black, terete, glabrous, the branchlets slender. Leaves 

 chartaceous, oblong-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 9 to 17 cm long, 



