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rounded to shortly and obtusely acuminate ; lateral nerves about 

 7 on each side of the midrib, prominent, curved, the reticula- 

 tions distinct ; petioles about 1 cm long. Inf ructescences woody, 

 about 6 cm long, trichotomous, each branch bearing 2 or 3 

 capsules. Mature fruits brownish, elliptic, rounded at both ends, 

 somewhat woody, about 7 cm long and 4 cm wide. 



Mindanao, Surigao Province, Bur. Sci. 34761 Ramos & Pas- 

 casio, May 18, 1919, in dry forests at low altitudes. 



The alliance of this species is with Hippocratea megalocarpa 

 Merr., from which it is especially distinguished by its larger 

 and more-numerously nerved leaves and its differently shaped, 

 shorter fruits. 



ICACINACEAE 



GOMPHANDRA Wallich 

 GOMPHANDRA OBLONGIFOLIA sp. nov. 



Arbor glabra, usque ad 10 m alta; foliis chartaceis, oblongo- 

 ellipticis ad oblongis, olivaceis, nitidis; 9 ad 15 cm longis, 

 utrinque subaequaliter angustatis, basi acutis, apice acuminatis, 

 nervis utrinque 5 vel 6, reticulis obsoletis vel subobsoletis ; cymis 

 plerumque term.inalibus oppositifoliisque, usque ad 4 cm longis; 

 fructibus ellipsoideis, 1.5 ad 1.8 cm longis. 



A tree, up to 10 m high, glabrous except the somewhat 

 pubescent inflorescences. Leaves chartaceous, oblong-elliptic to 

 oblong, olivaceous, when dry shining, the lower surface paler 

 than the upper, 9 to 15 cm long, 3.5 to 6 cm wide, subequally 

 narrowed to the acute base and to the more or less acuminate 

 apex; lateral nerves 5 or 6 on each side of the midrib, distinct, 

 obscurely anastomosing, the reticulations obsolete or nearly so; 

 petioles about 1 cm long. Cymes solitary, peduncled, sparingly 

 pubescent, leaf-opposed, mostly at the tips of the ultimate 

 branchlets, in fruit up to 4 cm long. Fruit ellipsoid to oblong- 

 ellipsoid, 1.5 to 1.8 cm long, brown when dry, faintly ridged 

 or sulcate. 



Luzon, Camarines Province, Paracale, Bur. Sci. 33727 Ramos 

 & Edano (type), For. Bur. 27A03 Alambra; Lagonoy, For. Bur. 

 21103 Hsia. Catanduanes, Bur. Sci. 30258, 30355 Ramos. In 

 dipterocarp forests at low altitudes, fruiting in December and 

 in April. 



This species somewhat resembles Urandra luzoniensis Merr., 

 which I now consider to belong in the genus Gomphandra, and 

 the specimens cited above were originally so identified. The 

 present species diff'ers from Urandra luzoniensis in its oblong 

 to oblong-elliptic, more-numerously nerved leaves which are 



