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mm in diameter, margins obscurely glandular-denticulate. Fila- 

 ments nearly 1 mm long. Pistillate flowers and fruits not seen. 

 Luzon, Tayabas Province, Mount Cadig, Bur. Set. 25JfOU Yates, 

 December 12, 1916, in the mossy forest, altitude at least 800 

 meters. 



, A characteristic species, readily distinguished by its thick, 

 entire, opposite leaves, and its short, simple, terminal or subter- 

 minal racemose, not spicate, staminate inflorescences. Under 

 Pax and Hoffmann's arrangement of the species of Excoecana, 

 it comes nearest to Excoecaria crenulata Wight and E. banta- 

 mensis Muell.-Arg. 



EXCOECARIA MIRANDAE sp. nov. § Commia. 



Frutex monoicus, circiter 2 m altus, glaber; foliis oppositis, 

 chartaceis, oblongis, usque ad 13 cm longis, olivaceis, integris, 

 acuminatis, basi acutis ad subobtusis, nervis utrinque circiter 9, 

 curvatis, anastomosantibus, reticulis subobsoletis ; inflorescentiis 

 junioribus terminalibus, circiter 4 cm longis, basi floribus 9 

 solitariis instructis; bracteolis unifloris; floribus s sepalis lan- 

 ceolatis, 1.5 mm longis, acuminatis, 9 ovatis, 2.2 mm longis, 

 longe et tenuiter acuminatis. 



A monoecious glabrous shrub about 2 m high, the branches 

 and branchlets slender, terete, reddish-brown. Leaves opposite, 

 chartaceous, olivaceous when dry, the lower surface paler than 

 the upper, 10 to 13 cm long, 3.5 to 4 cm wide, entire, base acute, 

 apex distinctly acuminate, the acumen rather blunt; lateral 

 nerves about 9 on each side of the midrib, curved, rather distinct, 

 anastomosing, the reticulations obsolete or subobsolete; petioles 

 5 to 8 mm long. Inflorescences terminal, when young about 

 4 cm long, with a single pistillate flower at the base, the brac- 

 teoles 1-flowered. Pistillate flowers : Sepals ovate, 2.2 mm long, 

 long and slenderly acuminate, the shoulders minutely denticu- 

 late. Ovary ovoid, glabrous, the style-arms rather stout, about 

 2 mm long. Staminate flowers: Sepals lanceolate, long-acumi- 

 nate, about 1.3 mm long, the bracts ovate, acuminate. Fruits 

 apparently about 1.5 cm in diameter, the pericarp crustaceous. 



Basilan, Bocboc Barrio, near Matangal Point, For. Bur. 20062 

 Miranda, October 4, 1912, altitude about 25 meters. 



The alliance of this species is manifestly with Excoecaria 

 bicolor Hassk,, from which it is distinguished by being monoe- 

 cious, although Hasskarl states that E. bicolor is sometimes 

 monoecious; by its longer inflorescences; and by its prominently 

 long-acuminate pistillate sepals. 



