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3.5 to 5 cm long, when young slightly pubescent, soon becoming 

 glabrous. Flowers fascicled in the axils of fallen leaves, their 

 pedicels thickened upward, 2 to 2.5 cm long, appressed pubes- 

 cent. Sepals 4, broadly ovate, somewhat acuminate, coriaceous, 

 about 7 mm long and wide, pubescent externally. Very young 

 fruits ovoid, glabrous; styles up to 1.7 cm long. 



Luzon, Camarines Province, Paracale, Cabcabin, For. Bur. 27101 Alam- 

 bra, March 12, 1918, in dipterocarp forests, altitude about 40 meters, 

 with the local name calacalachuche . 



This species is well characterized by its oblong leaves with numerous, 

 slender but distinct, parallel primary nerves, by which characters it is 

 readily distinguished from the other known Philippine representatives 

 of the genus. 



BASSIA MIRANDAE sp. nov. 



Species B. coriaceae affinis differt foliis majoribus, usque ad 

 23 cm longis et 8.5 cm latis, sepalis duplo majoribus. 



A tree about 18 m high, glabrous. Branches pale-brownish, 

 somewhat rugose, the ultimate ones about 8 mm in diameter, 

 the branchlets glabrous, smooth, somewhat sulcate. Leaves 

 oblong-obovate, coriaceous, 16 to 23 cm long, 5.5 to 8.5 cm wide, 

 glabrous, shining, rather pale when dry, the apex obtuse to 

 rounded or somewhat acuminate, narrowed below to the acute 

 base ; primary nerves about 12 on each side of the midrib, curved, 

 somewhat ascending, distinct, anastomosing, 1 to 2 cm apart, 

 the reticulations lax; petioles 2 to 2.5 cm long. Fruits appar- 

 ently few, in the axils of fallen leaves, their pedicels about 2.5 

 cm long, glabrous. Sepals 4, coriaceous, glabrous, broadly 

 ovate, rounded, about 5 mm long, the outer two up to 8 mm in 

 width. Fruit (immature) ovoid-ellipsoid, apiculate, 3 cm long, 

 glabrous, very coarsely wrinkled when dry. 



Mindanao, Zamboanga District, For. Bur. 2U161 Miranda, July 6, 1915, 

 on forested ridges. Mount Kaladis, altitude about 100 meters. 



This species is closely allied to Bassia coriacea Merr., of Luzon, which 

 it greatly resembles. It is distinguished by its much larger leaves and 

 sepals. 



OLEACEAE 



LINOCIERA Swartz 

 LINOCIERA REMOTINERVIA sp. nov. 



Arbor glabra ; foliis crassissime coriaceis, in siccitate pallidis, 

 usque ad 15 cm longis, anguste oblongo-obovatis, apice plerum- 

 que rotundatis, basi acuminatis, margine recurvatis; nervis pri- 

 mariis utrinque circiter 5, distantibus, tenuibus, laxissime ar- 

 cuato-anastomosantibus, reticulis obsoletis vel subobsoletis ; in- 



