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late. Leaves broadly ovate to oblong-ovate, chartaceous to sub- 
coriaceous, dull or slightly shining when dry, the upper surface 
subolivaceous, the lower brown, both surfaces supplied with 
slender, obscure, irregular, longitudinal, nerve-like lines, 9 to 
14 cm long, 5 to 9 cm wide, the apex shortly and obtusely 
acuminate, base subtruncate-rounded to subacute, margins 
coarsely undulate, each undulation tipped with a thickened cre- 
nate callosity; lateral nerves 5 or 6 on each side of the midrib, 
prominent, curved, very obscurely anastomosing, the reticula- 
tions obsolete or nearly so ; petioles 1.5 to 3 cm long. Infructes- 
cences axillary, solitary, depauperate-paniculate, 3 to 4 cm long, 
the branches few, spreading, 3 cm long or less. Fruits ellipsoid- 
ovoid, about 5 mm long, their pedicels about 3 mm long. Calyx- 
teeth broadly ovate, obtuse, about 1 mm long and 1.5 mm wide, 
very obscurely puncticulate, not lineate, the margins very min- 
utely and obscurely ciliate. 
Catanduanes, Mount Mariguidon, Bur. Sci. 30500 (type), 30308 Ramos, 
November and December, 1917, in forests. 
This species manifestly belongs in the group with Maesa denticulate t 
Mez, from which species it is distinguished by its thicker, larger leaves 
which are prominently undulate, brown beneath when dry, and by its 
obsolete or nearly obsolete reticulations. Maesa platyphylla Elm. is dis- 
tinguished by its more numerously nerved, nearly entire leaves, while 
M. megaphylla Merr. has much larger, more numerously nerved, entire 
leaves and very much longer inflorescences. 
EBENACEAE 
DIOSPYROS Linnaeus 
DIOSPYROS STREPTOSEPALA sp. nov. 
Arbor parva, foliis subtus ad costa, ramulis, petiolis, et 
fructibus parce longissime ciliatis ; foliis oblongo-ovatis ad 
ovato lanceolatis, usque ad 17 cm longis, basi late rotundatis, 
plerumque leviter cordatis, sursum angustatis, acuminatis, supra 
glabris, brunneo-olivaceis, subtus pallidis, nervis utrinque circi- 
ter 8 , tenuibus, distinctis, reticulis laxis ; fructibus ovoideis, cir- 
citer 2 cm longis, pericarpio fragile, extus perspicue longissime 
ciliato ; seminibus 2 , ovato-ellipticis, plano-convexis, circiter 1 cm 
longis, albumine aequabile; sepalis 4, persistentibus, circiter 1 
cm longis, longe filiformiter caudatis. 
A small tree, 5 m high fide Ramos, the leaves beneath es- 
pecially near the midrib, the branchlets, and the petioles with 
few, widely scattered, slender, spreading, about 3 mm long hairs, 
these more numerous on the fruits. Branches dark-brown 
or nearly black, terete, glabrous, the branchlets slender. Leaves 
chartaceous, oblong-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 9 to 17 cm long, 
