xiii. c, 5 Merrill: Noteworthy Philippine Plants 315 
no marginal veins. Inflorescences axillary, solitary or fascicled, 
1 to 1.5 cm long, cymose, their peduncles 4 mm long or less. 
Flowers white, crowded, comparatively large, the funnel-shaped 
calyces about 5 mm in diameter, the pedicels usually about 3 
mm long. 
Luzon, Camarines Province, Paracale, Calaburnay, For. Bur. 27060 
Magistrado, July 24, 1917, on slopes, altitude about 100 meters, with the 
local name calasgas. 
This species greatly resembles Memecylon sessilifolium Merr., but dif- 
fers radically in its terete, not prominently 4-angled branches and branch- 
lets. Its much more numerous lateral nerves, shorter, dense inflorescences, 
and its leaves not narrowed upward distinguish it from Memecylon pachy- 
phyllum Merr. to which it is probably most closely allied. 
EVERETTIA Merrill 
EVERETTIA OCTODONTA sp. noV. 
Species E. pulcherrimae similis, differt foliis laevis, glabris, 
calycibus 8-dentatis. Arbor, partibus junioribus plus minusve 
castaneo-pubescentibus exceptis glabra; foliis subcoriaceis, rigi- 
dis, in siccitate viridis, anguste oblongis, longe petiolatis, usque 
ad 13 cm longis, nervis primariis utrinque 20 ad 25, patulis, 
distinctis, haud prominulis, utrinque acutis vel apice leviter 
acuminatis; fructibus turbinatis, circiter 2 cm diametro, calycis 
dentibus 8, oblongis ad oblongo-ovatis, acuminatis, usque ad 
8 mm longis. 
A tree about 6 m high, entirely glabrous except the more 
or less castaneous-pubescent very young parts. Branches terete, 
glabrous, with few large lenticels. Leaves numerous, subco- 
riaceous, rigid, brittle, narrowly oblong, 10 to 13 cm long, 2.5 
to 4 cm wide, subequally narrowed to the acute base and apex, 
or the apex somewhat acuminate, greenish or yellowish-green 
and very minutely verruculose when dry, the nerves not at 
all impressed or projecting; primary lateral nerves 20 to 25 
on each side of the midrib, slender, spreading, anastomosing 
close to the margin with the slender, nearly straight marginal 
nerve, distinct, not projecting; petioles 3 to 4 cm long. Infruc- 
tescence terminal, peduncled, the fruits few, turbinate, about 
2 cm in diameter, base truncate-rounded, the tube scarcely con- 
stricted, the persistent teeth 8, coriaceous, oblong to oblong- 
ovate, acuminate, often somewhat recurved, up to 8 mm in length. 
Catanduanes, in forests at 'low altitudes along the Santo Domingo 
River, Bur. Sci. 30556 Ramos, December 3, 1917. 
While in general appearance this species resembles Everettia pulcherrima 
Merr., the only other known species of the genus, it differs radically in that 
the nerves are not at all impressed or raised, while the calyx is prominently 
8-toothed. 
