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culis terminalibus vel subterminalibus, 3 ad 4 cm longis, pedun- 
culatis, bipinnatis, paucifloris, foliis valde reductis subtensis; 
floribus 5-meris, in ramulis primariis subumbellatim dispositis, 
sepalis petalisque punctatis, petalis circiter 3 mm longis. 
A tree about 5 m high, glabrous or the very young parts of the 
inflorescences obscurely brown papillose. Branches brownish, 
terete, with numerous petiolar scars. Leaves crowded near the 
apices of the branchlets but scarcely pseudo-verticillate, coria- 
ceous, brown and shining when dry, entire, oblong-elliptic to 
oblong-obovate, apex very broadly and obscurely blunt-acuminate, 
base acute, the lower surface minutely puncticulate ; lateral 
nerves very slender, obscure, about 25 on each side of the midrib ; 
petioles dark brown when dry, 5 to 7 mm long. Panicles several 
on each ultimate branchlet, terminal or in the uppermost axils, 
3 to 4 cm long, subtended by greatly reduced leaves or leaf-like 
bracts, the smaller ones about 1 cm in length. Flowers white, 
umbellately disposed on the primary branches, 5-merous, their 
pedicels about 5 mm long. Calyx 3 to 3.5 mm in diameter, the 
lobes orbicular, rounded, spreading, not imbricate, glandular- 
punctate, margins ciliate, about 1.5 mm in diameter. Petals 
ovate, obtuse, 3 mm long, glandular-punctate. Anthers lanceo- 
late, acuminate, 2.5 mm long, the connectives glandular. Ovary 
ovoid; style 1.5 mm long. 
Luzon, Camarines Province, Mount Calingan, For. Bur. 21686 Miranda, 
April 24, 1914, on the summit of a small peak in the mossy forest, altitude 
about 700 meters. 
A very characteristic species, not certainly belonging in the section 
Acrardisia. It is characterized by its small, densely but obscurely nei'ved, 
crowded but scarcely pseudo-verticillate leaves, and by its panicles being 
subtended by reduced leaves or leaf-like bracts. 
ARDISIA YATESII sp. nov. § Pimelandra. 
Frutex 2 ad 4 m altus, novellis inflorescentiisque parce ferru- 
gineo-pubescentibus exceptis glaber; foliis oblongis, chartaceis, 
in siccitate subolivaceis vel brunneis, nitidis, usque ad 17 cm 
longis, integris, basi acutis, apice tenuiter acute acuminatis, 
nervis utrinque circiter 15, subtus distinctis, pagina inferiore 
minutissime riifo-puncticulatis ; infructescentibus axillaribus, 
solitariis, subumbellatis, petiolo subaequantibus, sepalis ovatis, 
glanduloso-puncticulatis, acutis, 2 mm longis, liberis vel sub- 
liberis, acutis, margine leviter ciliatis ; f ructibus globosis, 
glabris, circiter 7 mm diametro. 
A shrub 2 to 4 m high, the very young gTowing tips of the 
branchlets and the infructescences somewhat ferruginous-pubes- 
