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Leaves thickly coriaceous, elliptic to ovate-elliptic, 3.5 to 6 cm 
long, 2.3 to 3 cm wide, shining, olivaceous or brownish-olivaceous, 
base obtuse to rounded, apex shortly acuminate, the acumen 
retuse, margins minutely crenulate-serrulate ; lateral nerves 7 to 
9 on each side of the midrib, slender, distinct, anastomosing, the 
reticulations distinct ; petioles 3 to 5 mm long. Racemes axillary, 
and in the axils of fallen leaves, solitary, the rachis stout, 2 to 
4 mm long, marked with numerous scars of fallen pedicels, each 
bearing at one time one or two flowers at the apex, subsessile 
or the pedicels 1 to 1.5 mm long. Sepals orbicular to reniform, 
the inner ones up to 2 mm long and 3.5 mm wide, their margins 
ciliate. Ovary ovoid, glabrous ; styles 3, about 2 mm long, united 
for one-half their length. 
Luzon, Tayabas Province, Mount Dingalan, Bur. Sci. 26579 Ramos & 
Edano, September 9, 1916, in forests, altitude about 200 meters. 
A species resembling Eurya coriacea Merr., but with shorter petioles 
and an entirely different inflorescence. The short, stout, scarred rachis 
of the axillary racemes is characteristic. 
DIPTEROCARPACEAE 
VATICA Linnaeus 
VATICA PACHYPHYLLA sp. nov. 
Arbor circiter 20 m alta; foliis crasse coriaceis, ellipticis ad 
oblongo-ellipticis, glabris, olivaceis, nitidis, usque ad 14 cm longis 
et 8 cm latis, apice acuminatis, basi subacutis ad rotundatis, ner- 
vis primariis utrinque circiter 12, subtus prominulis; paniculis 
terminalibus, anguste pyramidatis, usque ad 18 cm longis, densis- 
sime stellato-furfuraceis, indumento luteo; floribus numerosis; 
petalis oblongis, circiter 11 mm longis; antheris 15; ovario 
glabro; stylis circiter 0.7 mm longis, glabris, stigmate obscuris- 
sime 3-lobato. 
A tree about 20 m high, glabrous except the younger parts. 
Branches terete, brownish, wrinkled when dry, about 5 mm 
in diameter, glabrous or nearly so, the branchlets densely fer- 
ruginous-furfuraceous. Leaves thickly coriaceous, elliptic to 
oblong-elliptic, 11 to 14 cm long, 5 to 8 cm wide, the apex rather 
prominently acuminate, base acute to rounded, when dry oliva- 
ceous, shining, the very young ones more or less stellate-puberu- 
lent, the indumentum caducous, the leaves soon entirely glabrous ; 
lateral nerves about 12 on each side of the midrib, prominent, 
curved, the reticulations not conspicuous; petioles 1.5 to 2 cm 
long, when young densely and minutely furfuraceous, in age 
glabrous or nearly so. Panicles terminal, pyramidal, up to 18 
cm in length, the lower branches up to 9 cm in length, all parts 
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