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2.5 to 5 cm wide, the base broadly rounded and usually slightly 

 cordate, narrowed upward to the rather slenderly acuminate 

 apex, the upper surface brownish-olivaceous, somewhat shining, 

 glabrous, the lower much paler; primary lateral nerves about 

 8 on each side of the midrib, slender, distinct, laxly anastomos- 

 ing, the reticulations lax, distinct; petioles 5 mm long or less. 

 Fruits solitary, in the uppermost axils, their pedicels long- 

 ciliate, about 5 mm long, the mature fruits ovoid, apex rounded 

 or obtuse, about 2 cm long, the pericarp thin, fragile when dry, 

 dark-brown, with many, long, slender, ciliate hairs similar to 

 those on the vegetative parts. Seeds 2, ovate-elliptic, plano- 

 convex, about 1 cm long, distinctly narrowed upward, obtuse 

 or apiculate, smooth, castaneous and shining when dry, the 

 albumen uniform. Persistent sepals 4, up to 1 cm long, ciliate, 

 long filiform-caudate from a somewhat broadened base. 



Catanduanes, Mount Mariguidon, Bur. Sci. SOJfSl Ramos, November 

 25, 1917, in forests near the summit of the mountain, altitude apparently 

 about 400 meters. 



This species is strongly characterized by its indumentum of scattered, 

 elongated, very slender hairs and especially by its very slender filiform- 

 caudate, elongated sepals. It is not at all closely allied to any other 

 species known to me. 



SAPOTACEAE 



BASS I A Koenig 

 BASSIA OBLONGI FOLIA sp, nov. 



Arbor circiter 18 m alta, subtus foliis dense adpresseque 

 puberulis; foliis coriaceis, oblongis, usque ad 20 cm longis, bre- 

 viter obtuse acuminatis, basi acutis vel subacutis, in siccitate 

 supra pallidis, nitidis, subtus subcupreis, nervis utrinque 22 ad 

 27, tenuibus, distinctis, patulis, leviter curvatis; floribus fas- 

 ciculatis, in axillis defoliatis, pedicellis sursum incrassatis, 2 

 ad 2.5 cm longis; sepalis extus adpresse-pubescentibus, late 

 ovatis, leviter acuminatis, circiter 7 mm longis, fructibus junio- 

 ribus glabris. 



A tree about 18 m high, the branches terete, glabrous, rugose, 

 the branchlets up to 6 mm in diameter, somewhat pubescent. 

 Leaves oblong, coriaceous, 15 to 20 cm long, 4.5 to 7 cm wide, 

 the upper surface glabrous, pale and shining when dry, the 

 lower subcupreous and rather densely appressed-puberulent, the 

 apex shortly blunt-acuminate, base acute, the midrib impressed 

 on the upper surface, very prominent on the lower surface; 

 lateral nerves slender, distinct, spreading, slightly curved, paral- 

 lel, 22 to 27 on each side of the midrib, anastomosing close to 

 the edge of the leaf, the reticulations not prominent; petioles 



