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Rendle, 1 Mount Dulangau, Mindoro, collected by Whitehead. It is closely 

 related to the preceding species, and is the only species of Rhododen- 

 dron known from the Philippines that is also found outside of the Archi- 

 pelago, all the other species enumerated above being endemic so far as is 

 known at present. 



MYRSINACEJE. 



Embelia bataanensis, sp. nov. Pattara. 



A scandent shrub 2 to 3 m. high, with glabrous, submembranous, ellip- 

 tical-lanceolate leaves, short, auxiliary racemose inflorescence and 5-merous 

 flowers. Branches brownish, striate, the branchlets more or less densely 

 dark brown puberulous. Leaves 5 to 7 cm. long, 2 to 2.5 cm. wide, the 

 base acute, the apex obscurely acuminate, the tip blunt, the margins entire 

 or slightly subcrenate above; nerves about 12 on each side of midrib, not 

 prominent, freely anastomosing; petioles 5 mm. long, densely dark brown 

 puberulous. Racemes axillary, puberulous, 2 cm. long or less, the pedicels 

 slender, 3 mm. long, the bracteoles about 1 mm. long. Flowers pink, 

 odorless, 2 mm. long. Calyx 5-cleft, the lobes narrowly ovate, obtuse, 0.8 

 mm. long, densely glandular, the margins minutely ciliate. Petals 5, 

 free, oblong-obovate, 1.8 mm. long, with few glands above, the apex rounded. 

 Stamens (male flowers) inserted near the base of the petals; filaments 

 1.7 mm. long; anthers 0.5 mm. long, the rudimentary ovary glabrous. 



Type specimen No. 3207 ( Merrill ) , Mount Mariveles, Province of Bataan, 

 Luzon, October 21, 1903. Not common, on forested, exposed ridges at an 

 altitude of about 1,000 m. above the sea. 



SAPOTACE^E. 



Sideroxylon coriaceum, sp. nov. 



A small tree with obovate, or oblanceolate, coriaceous, glabrous, obtuse, 

 rarely subacute leaves 1 1 cm. long or less, the flowers in fascicles of 

 from 6 to 23 in the axils of the leaves or in the axils of fallen leaves, the 

 staminodes nearly obsolete. Branches brown, glabrous, striate, the ultimate 

 branchlets minutely and obscurely pubescent. Leaves alternate, 9 to 11 

 cm. long, 3 to 4.5 cm. wide, the base cuneate, the apex usually rounded, 

 rarely subacute, the upper surface smooth and shining, the lower surface 

 pale, glabrous; nerves 8 to 12 on each side of the midrib, not prominent; 

 petioles 1 to 1.5 cm. long, glabrous or nearly so. Flowers dull white, 

 their pedicels rusty pubescent, 5 to 6 mm. long. Sepals broadly ovate, 

 obtuse, 4 mm. long, 3 to 3.5 mm. wide, appressed rusty pubescent below. 

 Corolla glabrous, the lobes ovate, obtuse, 4 mm. long, 3 mm. wide. Fila- 

 ments 3 mm. long, the anthers 1.5 mm. long, 1 mm. thick Staminodes very 

 small, linear, less than 1 mm. long, or sometimes in part wanting. Ovary 

 5, or by abortion 4-celled, glabrous above, pubescent below. 



Type specimen No. 6071 (A. D. E. Elmer), Baguio, Province of Benguet, 

 Luzon, March, 1904. A small tree in dry thickets, apparently belonging 



. Bot. 34:355. 1896. 



