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Arg. from which it is at once distinguished by its conspicuously 

 impressed nerves and reticulations, and by its very slender, 

 greatly elongated inflorescences, both the staminate and pistil- 

 late flowers even in young inflorescences being widely scattered 

 and not densely crowded as in A. cumingii. 



ANTIDESMA ILOCANUM sp. nov. 



Frutex vel arbor parva, ramulis inflorescentiisque castaneo- 

 pubescentibus ; foliis lanceolatis, chartaceis, 15 ad 20 cm longis, 

 subtus ad costa nervisque leviter pubescentibus, acuminatis, 

 basi plerumque obtusis, nervis utrinque circiter 12, perspicuis; 

 stipulis linearis vel lineari-lanceolatis, 6 ad 8 mm longis ; racemis 

 9 axillaribus, solitariis, circiter 20 cm longis; fructibus inae- 

 quilateraliter ovoideis, glabris, 9 mm longis, obtusis, stigmate 

 terminale. 



A shrub or small tree, the young branchlets and inflorescences 

 castaneous-pubescent. Leaves lanceolate, chartaceous, 15 to 20 

 cm long, 3 to 4.5 cm wide, pale-olivaceous and shining when dry, 

 the lower surface brownish and sparingly castaneous-pubescent 

 on the midrib and nerves, ultimately glabrous or nearly so, some- 

 what narrowed upward to the acuminate apex, the acumen with 

 a short mucro, base slightly narrowed, rounded to obtuse ; lateral 

 nerves about 12 on each side of the midrib, prominent on the 

 lower surface, arched, anastomosing, the reticulations distinct; 

 petioles stout, 5 to 7 mm long, when young castaneous-pubescent, 

 soon becoming glabrous ; stipules linear or linear-lanceolate, acu- 

 minate, 6 to 8 mm long. Pistillate racemes axillary, simple, 

 about 20 cm long, the rachis rather stout, castaneous-pubescent, 

 marked with numerous scars of fallen pedicels, the pedicels pu- 

 bescent, 2 to 3 mm long. Sepals 5, pubescent, about 1 mm long. 

 Fruits ovoid, inequilateral, glabrous, somewhat compressed, 

 about 9 mm long, the base broadly rounded, apex obtuse, when 

 dry prominently reticulate-rugose; stigmas terminal. 



Luzon, Ilocos Norte Province, between Bangui and Claveria, 

 Bur. Sci. 32998 Ramos, August 12, 1918, in thickets and forests 

 at low altitudes. 



The alliance of this species is manifestly with Antidesma 

 cumingii Muell.-Arg., from which it is readily distinguished by 

 its relatively much-narrowed leaves and its very narrow stipules. 



ANTIDESMA CATANDUAN ENSE sp. nov. 



Arbor parva, inflorescentiis parce pubescentibus excef)tis gla- 

 bra; ramis ramulisque griseis, teretibus; foliis chartaceis, ellip- 

 ticis, usque ad 11 cm longis et 7 cm latis, breviter acuminatis, basi 



