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rugose, glabrous, pale and somewhat shining when dry, about 

 13 mm long and 1 cm wide, the pedicels about 5 mm long; persis- 

 tent calyx-lobes 5, lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent, about 1.5 

 mm long. 



Babuyan Islands, Calayan, For. Bur. 266U2 Velasco, June 6, 

 1917, in forests, altitude about 40 meters. 



A species manifestly closely allied to Antidesma cumingii 

 Muell.-Arg., differing in its larger leaves, longer stipules, and 

 larger fruits. 



DAPHNIPHYLLUM Blume 

 DAPHNIPHYLLUM OBTUSIFOLIUM sp. nov. 



Frutex glaber, ramulis brunneis, laevis, teretibus; foliis ellip- 

 ticis ad oblongo-ellipticis, coriaceis, usque ad 9 cm longis, in 

 siccitate nitidis, utrinque olivaceis et concoloribus vel subtus 

 admodum brunneis, apice late rotundatis, interdum brevissime 

 apiculatis, nervis utrinque 6 ad 9, distinctis ; infructescentiis cir- 

 citer 5 cm longis, fructibus ovoideis, laevis, in siccitate nigris, 

 circiter 12 mm longis. 



A glabrous shrub about 3 m high, the branches terete, brown- 

 ish, slightly wrinkled, the branchlets smooth, brown or reddish- 

 brown. Leaves numerous, elliptic to oblong-elliptic, 6 to 9 cm 

 long, 3 to 4 cm wide, olivaceous and shining on both surfaces 

 when dry, coriaceous, usually of the same color beneath as above, 

 sometimes somewhat brownish, never glaucous, entire, the apex 

 broadly rounded and sometimes minutely apiculate, base acute , 

 and obscurely 3-nerved or 3-plinerved; lateral nerves 6 to 9 on 

 each side of the midrib, somewhat curved, distinct on both sur- 

 faces as are the reticulations ; petioles brown, 2.5 to 3.5 cm long. 

 Infructescences axillary, about 5 cm long. Fruits ovoid, black, 

 somewhat fleshy, about 12 mm long, the pericarp somewhat 

 wrinkled when dry, the styles less than 1 mm long, spreading or 

 recurved. 



Luzon, Tayabas Province, Mount Binuang, Bur. Set. 28705 

 (type), 28662 Ramos & Edailo, May, 1917, in forests near the 

 summit of the mountain, altitude about 1,000 meters. 



This species is perhaps as closely allied to Daphniphyllum 

 (jlaucescens Blume as to any other species, but is readily distin- 

 guished by its leaves being broadly rounded at their apices, not 

 acuminate, but at most minutely apiculate. It likewise differs 

 from Dapkniphyllum borneense Stapf in the same leaf char- 

 acters and in having much longer petioles. 



