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'Leyte, Tigbao, near Tacloban, Wenzel 1240, May, 1915, a vine with 
greenish flowers, reaching a height of about 10 meters. 
A species well characterized by its prominently corniculate, pubescent 
petals, in vegetative characters resembling Tetrastigma sepulchrei Merr., 
but apparently not closely allied to that species. 
ELAEOCARPACEAE 
ELAEOCARPUS Linnaeus 
ELAEOCARPUS BONTOCENSIS sp. nov. § Dicera. 
Arbor circiter 8 m alta, partibus junioribus inflorescentiisque 
exceptis glabra ; foliis coriaceis, nitidis, elliptico-ovatis, usque ad 
7 cm longis, utrinque subaequaliter angustatis, basi acutis, apice 
breviter obtuseque acuminatis, margine crenato-serrulatis, nervis 
utrinque circiter 5, axillis glandulosis; racemis leviter pubes- 
centibus, axillaribus, solitariis, 1 ad 2 cm longis, paucifloris; 
floribus 4- et 5-meris, parvis ; petalis margine parcissime ciliatis, 
apice breviter laceratis; staminibus 20, obtusis, haud ciliatis; 
ovario 3-locellato, puberulo. 
A tree about 8 m high, glabrous except the very young parts 
and the sparingly pubescent racemes. Branches terete, reddish- 
brown, rather slender, the tips of the branchlets more or less 
appressed-pubescent. Leaves elliptic-ovate, coriaceous, rather 
pale when dry, shining, 4 to 7 cm long, 2 to 4 cm wide, subequally 
narrowed to the acute base and short, blunt-acuminate apex, 
margins distinctly crenate-serrate ; lateral nerves about 5 on each 
side of the midrib, rather prominent, their axils glandular, retic- 
ulations slender, rather lax; petioles 1 to 1.5 cm long. Racemes 
axillary, solitary, short, few-flowered, 1 to 2 cm long, sparingly 
pubescent. Flowers small, 4- and 5-merous, their pedicels about 
4 mm long. Sepals oblong-ovate, acute, slightly pubescent, 4 
mm long, 2 mm wide. Petals oblong-obovate to obovate, about 
3.5 mm long, 2 mm wide, margins and surface inside in the lower 
part very sparingly ciliate with slender, white hairs, the apical 
1 to 1.5 mm cut into 10 to 12 narrow divisions, none of these 
more than 1 mm in length. Stamens 20, 2 to 2.5 mm long, 
the filaments short, the anthers narrow, obtuse, scabrid, 'the 
cells equal, not awned or ciliate. Disk gray-puberulent. Ovary 
ovoid, densely gray-puberulent, 3-celled ; style puberulent, about 
2 mm long. 
Luzon, Bontoc Subprovince, Bauco, Vanoverbergh 3892, January, 1914, 
in forests, altitude about 1,700 meters, the flowers pink. 
A species well characterized by its very short, few-flowered racemes; 
4- and 5-merous, small flowers ; its very short petal-segments, very sparingly 
ciliate petals; and obtuse, not at all awned or ciliate anthers. 
