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2 or 3 greatly reduced, narrowly lanceolate leaves about 1.5 cm 

 in length, the apical 1 to 2 cm slightly thickened, about 1.5 mm 

 in diameter, these thickened parts supplied with many narrowly 

 lanceolate, acuminate bracts 5 to 10 mm in length and marked 

 with numerous scars of fallen bracts, this thickened portion 

 bearing 1 or 2 slender, few-flowered racemes 1 to 1.5 cm long. 

 Flowers 5-merous, reddish; the sepals narrowly oblong, about 

 1 mm long, with few, large, prominent glands. 



Mindanao, Surigao Province, Bur. Sci. 3JfIf56 Ramos & Pas- 

 casio, April 14, 1919, on rocky forested slopes at low altitudes. 



This species is similar and manifestly closely allied to Dis- 

 cocalyx angustissima Merr., from which it is distinguished by its 

 entire leaves. 



EBENACEAE 



DIOSPYROS Linnaeus ♦ 



DIOSPYROS LONGICILIATA sp. nov. 



Frutex parvus, ramulis et petiolis et foliis perspicue longe 

 ciliatis, ramis ramulisque tenuibus; foliis chartaceis, oblongo- 

 lanceolatis, 9 ad 16 cm longis, basi rotundatis, apice tenuiter 

 acute acuminatis, nervis utrinque circiter 12; floribus longe cil- 

 iatis, axillaribus, solitariis, sessilibus, calycis tubo brevissimo, 

 lobis lanceolatis, acuminatis, circiter 4 mm longis ; ovario densis- 

 sime ciliato. 



A small shrub, the branchlets, petioles and portions of the 

 leaves prominently ciliate with long, slender, spreading hairs, 

 these hairs usually about 2 to 3 mm in length. Branches slender, 

 erect, glabrous, black when dry. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, char- 

 taceous, 9 to 16 cm long, 2 to 3.5 cm wide, brownish-olivaceous 

 when dry, base rounded, apex rather slenderly and sharply 

 acuminate, both surfaces and the margins long-ciliate with scat- 

 tered hairs, these more numerous on the midrib than on other 

 parts of the leaf; lateral nerves slender, about 12 on each side 

 of the midrib, anastomosing, the reticulations lax, distinct; pet- 

 ioles about 3 mm long. Pistillate flowers solitary, axillary, 

 sessile, 4-merous. Calyx-tube very short, the lobes lanceolate, 

 prominently long-acuminate from a broad base, about 4 mm long, 

 conspicuously long-ciliate. Corolla reddish, the tube about 5 

 mm long, externally long-ciliate, the lobes oblong, about 6 mm 

 in length. Staminodes 4. Ovary very densely ciliate with long 

 ascending hairs up to 4 mm in length; style densely hirsute 

 below. 



DiNAGAT, Bur. Sci. 35189, Ramos & Pascasio, May 11, 1919, 

 in forests at low altitudes. 



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