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cent, otherwise glabrous. Branches paie-brownish, smooth, te- 
rete, the branchlets somewhat angled or compressed when dry. 
Leaves oblong, chartaceous, subolivaceous or brownish when dry, 
shining, the lower surface slightly paler then the upper, 10 to 17 
cm long, 2 to 4.5 cm wide, entire, subequally narrowed to the 
acute base and to the slenderly acute-acuminate apex, the lower 
surface minutely brown-puncticulate with scattered glands; lat- 
eral nerves about 15 on each side of the midrib, distinct, anas- 
tomosing, slightly curved, the ultimate reticulations evident on 
both surfaces; petioles 1 to 1.5 cm long. Infructescences axil- 
lary, solitary, subumbellate, the peduncles about 8 mm long, the 
pedicels crowded toward its tip, sparingly ferruginous-pubescent, 
the pedicels, in friut, about 1 cm long, somewhat thickened up- 
ward. Calyx-lobes ovate, acute, distinctly glandular with red- 
dish glands, about 2 mm long, nearly free, their margins 
minutely ciliate. Fruit globose, glabrous, smooth, about 7 mm 
in diameter, nearly black when mature. 
Luzon, Tayabas Province, Mount Cadig, Bur. Sci. 25U53 (type), 25U9U, 
25389 Yates, December 14, 1916, on forested slopes, altitude 350 to 400 
meters. 
A species manifestly allied to Ardisia philijjpinensis A. DC. and A. 
distich a A. DC. but distinguished, am-ong other characters, by its smaller, 
narrower, slenderly and sharply acuminate leaves. 
ARDISIA TAYABENSIS sp. nov. § Pyrgus. 
Frutex glaber, circiter 2 m altus; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis, 
usque ad 10 cm longis, integris, in siccitate brunneis, nitidis, 
utrinque subaequaliter angustatis, acutis vel obscure acuminatis, 
nervis primariis utrinque circiter 12, distinctis; paniculis ter- 
minalibus, sub fructu circiter 9 cm longis; fructibus ovoideis, 
circiter 8 mm longis obscure longitudinaliter striatis, sepalis 
glabris. 
A glabrous shrub about 2 m high, the branches and branchlets 
brown, terete, smooth. Leaves crowded near the apices of the 
branches, subcoriaceous, brown and shining when dry, the lower 
surface slightly paler than the upper, oblong-lanceolate, 7 to 10 
cm long, 2 to 2.5 cm wide, entire, subequally narrowed to the 
acute or slightly acuminate base and apex, both surfaces gland- 
ular-puncticulate ; lateral nerves about 12 on each side of the 
midrib, distinct, the secondary nerves and reticulations distinct 
on both surfaces; petioles 8 to 14 mm long. Panicles terminal, 
in fruit about 9 cm long, the axis stout, the primary branches 
scattered, spreading, 1 to 1.5 cm long, the pedicels thickened up- 
ward, about 7 mm long. Fruits ovoid, about 8 mm long, ob- 
scurely longitudinally striate, brown, shining, the persistent se- 
