150 MERRILL. 



cm long, T to 11 vm wide, alabrous. coriaceous, sliining, base acute, 

 apex broadly short-acuminate, acumen blunt, the margins very obscurely 

 crenate or entire; nerves about !> on each side of the midrib, prominent, 

 the reticulations ratlier dense; petioles 5 to 7 cm long. Racemes ax- 

 illary, solitary, 7 to 9 cm long, the rachis, pedicels and sepals densely 

 appressed-gray-pifbeseent. Pedicels about 1 cm long, in fruit 1.5 to 2 

 cm long, bracteoles none or fugacious. Sepals 8, lanceolate, somewhat 

 acuminate, valvate, about 11 mm long, 3 mm wide, keeled and glab- 

 rous inside, except along the somewhat pubescent margins. Petals 8, lan- 

 ceolate, induplicate, about 8 mm long, 3 mm wide, densely villous, 

 especially inside, acute or acuminate, entire. Stanieiis about 40 ; filaments 

 1.5 mm long; anthers linear, minutely scabrid, somewhat curved, about 

 4.5 mm long, the apex aristate, the awn nearly 1.5 mm long. Ovary 

 ovoid, densely villous, 2-celled, each cell several-ovuled. Fruit ovoid, 

 glabrous, shining, dark blue, about 1.3 cm long, 8 or 9 mm in diameter, 

 obtuse, with a bony 1-celled stone. 



Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens 1148, September, 1907. 



A very characteristic species, differing from all otliers in the genus in its 8 

 petals and sepals, for which a new section is necessary, which I call Octelaeo- 

 carpus. 



Elaeocarpus mindanaensis Merrill sp. nov. S Dicrra. 



Arbor parva, ramis ramulis foliis raecmis calycibusque plus minus 

 dense ferrugineo-pubescentibus ; foliis elliptico-ovatis vel oblongo-ovatis, 

 aeuminatis, nervis utrinque ca. 8; I'acemis axillaribus, multifloris; pet- 

 alis 5, funbriatis, extus basi ])arc(' villosis; staminibus obtusis; ovario 

 3-loculari. 



A small tree, ratbcr densely pubescent, the branches terete, glabrous 

 in age, the younger j)arts densely ferruginous-pubescent. Leaves sub- 

 coriaceous, elli])tical-ovate to ol^long-ovate, 8 to 16 cm long, 4 to 8.5 

 cm wide, the a})ex acuminate, base acute to somewhat rounded, the 

 margins irregularly crenate-dentate, the teeth small, glabrous above in 

 age, except on the pubescent midrib and nerves, beneath ratlier densely 

 pubescent; nerves 8 on each side of Ibc midril), vciy jiroiiiinont beneath, 

 the reticulations also very distinct; petioles densely pubescent, 2 to 

 3.5 cm long. Racemes axillary, solitary, 10 cm long or less, the 

 rachis, bracteoles, pedicels and sepals densely pubescent. Pedicels about 

 8 mm long, each subtended by a deciduous linear 8 or 9 mm long 

 bracteole, each bracteole with two or three small lobes. Se])als oblong, 

 () mm long, 3.5 mm wide. Petals about 7 mm long, cuneate, glabrous 

 excej)t for a few hairs oJi the lower ])orlion ouiside, lind)riaie to the 

 middle. Stamens about 30; lilaiiieiils al)i)iil 1.5 mm long, minutely 



