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6 on each side, prominent beneath, ascending ; petioles glabrous, 1 cm. long 

 or less. Racemes 6 to 10 or more at the tip of each branchlet, 6 to 7 

 cm. long, erect, the axis, pedicels, bracts, calyx, and corolla appressed 

 silvery pubescent, the peduncle 2 to 3 cm. long. Flowers white, the pedicel 

 5 mm. long, the bract 4 mm. long, lanceolate, the margins slightly toothed. 

 Sepals 5, lanceolate, acuminate, 5 to 5.5 mm. long, 1.5 to 2 mm. wide, 

 glabrous inside. Petals 5 mm. long, 2 to 2.5 mm. wide, the apex laciniate 

 for 1.5 to 2 mm., on the inside pilose in the median portion and near the 

 margins below, glabrous above, the base not cucullate. Torus thick, lobed, 

 densely pubescent. Stamens about 30, the filaments about 1 mm. long, 

 very sparingly pubescent, the anthers 2 mm. long, minutely and sparingly 

 pubescent with very short hairs, the outer cell slightly exceeding the 

 inner, but not awned. Ovary ovoid, 2 mm. long, densely silvery pubescent, 

 2-celled; style minutely pubescent, 3 mm. long. Young fruit ovoid or 

 ellipsoid, rugose, pubescent, apparently 2-celled. 



Type specimen No. 6237 (A. D. E. Elmer), Mount Santo Tomas, Prov- 

 ince of Benguet, Luzon, May, 1904. A stunted tree with hard wood and 

 gray, tubercled bark, growing on exposed ridges at and near the summit of 

 the mountain at an altitude of about 2,500 m. above the sea. 

 Elaeocarpus pendulus sp. nov. Monocera. 



A small shrubby tree 3 m. high or less, with lanceolate, acuminate, 

 glabrous, subcoriaceous leaves, the flowers 12 mm. long, pendulous in small 

 few flowered racemes which are borne on the branches below the leaves. 

 Branches gray, rough, the ultimate branchlets glabrous, brown. Leaves 

 alternate, 5 to 8 cm. long, 1.5 to 2.8 cm. wide, the base rounded or 

 subacute, the apex long acuminate; nerves 6 to 8 on each side of the 

 midrib, obscure, the reticulations lax, obscure; petioles 1.5 to 2 cm. long, 

 slender, glabrous. Racemes few, 3 to 4 cm. long, glabrous, each with 

 from three to six flowers, their pedicels slender, glabrous, about 1 cm. 

 long. Flowers lanceolate, acuminate in bud. Sepals five, lanceolate, acu- 

 minate, equaling the petals, 2.5 to 3 mm. wide below, brownish red when 

 dry, minutely appressed pubescent outside, rather densely pubescent inside, 

 especially above and on the margins. Petals white, 5 mm. wide or less 

 above, narrowed below, the base cucullate from the infolding of the edges 

 and with a fleshy villous gland in the center, the apex laciniate for 5 

 mm. or less, glabrous above on both sides, below pilose in the median 

 portion outside, and densely pilose inside. Torus thick fleshy, glabrous, 

 grooved, 3 mm. in diameter. Stamens 35 to 40, the filaments 2 mm. long, 

 pubescent, the anthers 3 to 4.5 mm. long, puberulous, the apex slightly 

 cleft, the outer cell with a somewhat bent and curved, slender, somewhat 

 scabrous awn 2 mm. long. Ovary ovoid, glabrous, pointed, 2.5 mm. long, 

 2-celled. Style slender, glabrous, 10 mm. long. Fruit elliptic, blunt at 

 both ends, glabrous, rugose when dry, 1.5 cm. long, 1 cm. in diameter, 

 the pulp thin, the stone strongly rugose, very hard, 1-celled, 1-seeded. 



Type specimen No. 5801 (A. D. E. Elmer), Mount Santo Tomas, Prov- 

 ince of Benguet, Luzon, March, 1904. This species is not common, growing 

 only on the exposed summit of the mountain at an elevation of about 

 2,500 m. above the sea. 



