Robinson: Alabastka philippinensia 71 



This genus has not hitherto been reported from the Philippines. 

 This species is closely allied to 5. Swinhoei Hemsley, from For- 

 mosa, but seems to be distinguished by constantly narrower and 

 much more attenuate leaves. The flowers described above were 

 hardly sufficiently mature. 



ELAEOCARPACEAE 



Elaeocarpus venosus sp. nov. 



Flowers racemed in the axils of the upper leaves ; racemes 

 8-12 cm. long, the rachises 2-2.5 mm - i n diameter, angled, together 

 with the peduncles ferruginous-silky-tomentose ; flowers usually 

 6-12 on a raceme, pedicels spreading or more often decurrent, 

 1. 6-1. 8 mm. in diameter, at anthesis 8-10 mm. long, each sub- 

 tended by an ovate to obovate bract 8-12 mm. long and 7-8 mm. 

 wide; flower-buds ovate; calyx-lobes 5, lanceolate, when mature 

 1 2-12.5 mm. long, separated for about four-fifths of their length, 

 coriaceous, subacute at the apex, densely ferruginous-tomentose 

 without, within less markedly pubescent but conspicuously 

 3-nerved : petals 5, obovate, truncate at base, fimbriate to a depth 

 °f I_ ~4-5 mm. at the rounded or truncate apex, 1-1.4 cm. long, 

 2.5-3 mm. wide at the base, 6-7 mm. wide at the apex, densely 

 silky-tomentose : stamens about 60, linear, very minutely antrorsely 

 barbed, 5-6 mm. long, the filaments 1—1.5 mm. long, the anther- 

 tips free, acute, sometimes recurving : ovary sessile, densely 

 golden-brown, silky-tomentose, globose, 3.5-4 mm. in diameter, 

 3-celled with 6-8 ovules in each cell : fruit blue, drupaceous, gla- 

 brous, oval, 2.3-2.7 cm. long, 2.1-2.2 cm. in diameter; stone 

 2.1-2.4 c m. long, 1. 6-1. 7 cm. in diameter, villose and variously 

 channeled without, 3-celled, each cell with one seed. 



„A tree 9 m. high and 1 5 cm. in diameter : bark dark- or brown- 

 ^h-gray, furrowed, marked by the scars of fallen leaves, nearly 

 glabrous: leaves stiff, coriaceous, alternate, borne on petioles 

 7-5-12 mm. long and 2.5-3 mm. wide, elliptic-obovate, entire, the 

 margins revolute, acute or somewhat rounded and more or less 

 decurrent at the base, truncate or rounded or rarely shortly and 

 obtusely acuminate at the apex, glabrous and shining above, when 

 young tomentose beneath, becoming glabrous ; veins reddish on 

 the upper surface, yellowish or whitish beneath, midrib raised 

 a bove both surfaces except the tip of the upper, primary veins im- 

 mersed in the upper surface but projecting from the under, these 

 and the secondary and tertiary veins very conspicuous beneath ; 

 Pnmary veins 10-12 on each side of the midrib. 



