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2 mm long. Calyx somewhat cup-shaped, nearly 2 mm in dia- 
meter, with four, short, rounded, obscure teeth, their margins 
somewhat crenulate, glandular. Corolla 4 mm long, glandular, 
the lobes oblong, obtuse, 2 mm long. Stamens 4, oblong, sessile, 
1.2 mm long, the connectives black-glandular on the back. Ru- 
dimentary ovary and style rather stout, about 2 mm long. 
Mindanao, Agusan Subprovince, near Butuan, For. Bur. 20735 Rafael 
& Ponce, September 12, 1913, in swamp-forests at low altitudes. 
A species manifestly allied to Discocalyx merrillii Mez and to D. pala- 
ivanensis Elm., well characterized, however, by its sessile leaves and much 
larger flowers. The specialized branches bearing the inflorescences present 
no reduced leaves. 
DISCOCALYX TECSONII sp. nov. 
Arbor glabra, 5 ad 8 m alta ; f oliis breviter petiolatis, oblongo- 
oblanceolatis, usque ad 34 cm longis, chartaceis, acutis ad leviter 
acuminatis, integris, deorsum sensim angustatis, basi cuneatis, 
nervis utrinque circiter 20, distinctis ; paniculis bipinnatis, usque 
ad cm longis, in ramis extra-axillaribus vel e exillis defoliatis 
dispositis, ramis specialibus compressis, 1 ad 3.5 cm longis supra 
plus minusve incrassatis cicatricibus et cum foliis depauperatis 
instructis; floribus $ 4- vel 5-meris, glandulosis, circiter 3 mm 
longis, petalis ad basi leviter connatis. 
A glabrous tree 5 to 8 m high, apparently dioecious, the 
branches brown when dry, terete, about 5 mm in diameter. 
Leaves rather pale when dry, chartaceous, oblong-oblanceolate, 
entire, 20 to 34 cm long, 5 to 9 cm wide, apex acute to obscurely 
acuminate, gradually narrowed from about the upper two-thirds 
to the cuneate base; lateral nerves distinct, usually about 20 
on each side of the midrib, irregular, anastomosing; petioles 
stout, about 5 mm long. Special branches bearing the inflores- 
cences extra-axillary or from the axils of fallen leaves, usually 
compressed, 1 to 3.5 cm long, about 3 mm in diameter, their 
apices somev/hat thickened and with the evident scars of fallen 
peduncles, bracts, and leaves, the panicles subtended by two or 
three greatly reduced leaves similar to the ordinary ones but from 
4 to 9 cm long, the brown bracts membranaceous, lanceolate, 
acuminate, about 1 cm long, deciduous. Panicles up to 6 cm 
long, the branches 2 cm long or less. Flowers 4- or 5-merous, 
the staminate ones about 3 mm long. Calyx somewhat cup- 
shaped, nearly 2 mm in diameter, the teeth broad, rounded, 
entire, glandular. Corolla 3 mm long, the lobes oblong, obtuse, 
free nearly to the base, glandular. A^nthers sessile, oblong, 1 
mm long, the connectives glandular. Rudimentary ovary and 
