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subequally narrowed to both base and apex and which do not 

 approach the obovate type. It is possible that Bur. Sci. 35264. 

 Ramos & Pascasio from Dinagat Island is referable to the same 

 species. In this specimen the cymes are axillary and also 

 from the axils of fallen leaves, while the leaves are relatively 

 narrower and subcaudate-acuminate. The extra-Philippine 

 alliance of the species seems to be with Gomphandra lanceolata 

 King, of the Malay Peninsula. 



GOMPHANDRA LANCIFOLIA sp. nov. 



Arbor parva, glabra, foliis lanceolatis, brunneo-olivaceis, 

 nitidis, chartaceis vel subcoriaceis, 7 ad 9 cm longis, utrinque 

 subaequaliter angustatis, apice tenuiter subcaudato-acuminatis, 

 nervis utrinque 3, tenuibus, reticulis obsoletis; fructibus car- 

 nosis, oblongo-obovoideis ad oblanceolatis, 2.5 ad 3 cm longis, 

 mesocarpio leviter sulcato. 



A glabrous tree, about 6 m high. Leaves lanceolate, charta- 

 ceous or subcoriaceous, brownish-olivaceous and somewhat 

 shining when dry, 7 to 9 cm long, 1.5 to 2.5 cm wide, subequally 

 narrowed to the cuneate or somewhat acuminate base and to 

 the slenderly subcaudate-acuminate apex, the acumen usually 

 about 1 cm long; lateral nerves usually 3 on each side of the 

 midrib, distant, curved-ascending, slender, the reticulations 

 nearly obsolete; petioles 5 to 7 mm long. Fruits axillary, their 

 peduncles up to 1 cm long, fleshy, oblong-obovate to oblanceolate, 

 salmon-colored, 2.5 to 3 cm long, the mesocarp somewhat lon- 

 gitudinally ridged. 



Luzon, Tayabas Province, Mount Dingalan, on the east coast, 

 on dry forested slopes, altitude about 300 meters, locally known 

 to the Negritos as paranuyog. 



A species well characterized by its lanceolate, subcaudate- 

 acuminate, few-nerved leaves which are subequally narrowed 

 to both base and apex, as well as by its rather large fruits. 

 It is probably as closely allied to Stemonurus fuliginea Elm., 

 which belongs in Gomphandra, as to any other described species. 



GOMPHANDRA GLABRA sp. nov. 



Arbor, circiter 10 m alta, ramulis junioribus inflorescenti- 

 isque parcissime pubescentibus exceptis glabra; foliis oblongis, 

 membranaceis, usque ad 11 cm longis, in siccitate nitidis, oliva- 

 ceo-brunneis, acutis vel leviter acuminatis, basi subacutis, 

 nervis utrinque circiter 10, subtus perspicuis ; cymis axillaribus, 

 paucifloris, usque ad 3.5 cm longis; fructibus oblongis, inaequi- 

 lateralibus, glabris, usque ad 8 mm longis. 



