xiii, c, 5 Merrill: Noteworthy Philippine Plants 325 
fructescentiis axillaribus, circiter 3 cm longis ; f ructibus ellipsoi- 
deis, circiter 1.4 cm longis. 
A glabrous tree about 12 m high, the branchlets smooth, pale. 
Leaves very thickly coriaceous, narrowly oblong-obovate, 12 to 
15 cm long, 3.5 to 5.5 cm wide, pale, of about the same color 
on both surfaces, smooth and shining when dry, the apex usually 
rounded, sometimes retuse, or at times shortly acuminate, base 
acuminate, margins recurved; midrib very prominent on the 
lower surface ; lateral nerves about 5 on each side of the midrib, 
slender, distant, forked and laxly arched-anastomosing distant 
from the margin, the reticulations obsolete or nearly so ; petioles 
1.5 to 2 cm long. Infructescences axillary, about 3 cm long, 
peduncled, the fruits few, ellipsoid, olivaceous when dry, smooth, 
about 1.4 cm long. 
Luzon, Pangasinan Province, Mount San Isidro, Labrador, Bur. Sci. 
29,933 Fenix, on open grassy slopes near the edge of the forest, altitude 
about 300 meters. 
This species is well characterized by its very thickly coriaceous, leaves 
and its few, distant, obscure, laxly arched-anastomosing nerves, the reticu- 
lations obsolete or nearly so. 
CORNACEAE 
MASTIXIA Blume 
M ASTIXIA PACHYPHYLLA sp. nov. § Tetramastixia. 
Arbor glabra (floribus ignotis) ; foliis stricte oppositis, crasse 
coriaceis, oblongis ad oblongo-ellipticis vel anguste obovato- 
ellipticis, usque ad 14 cm longis, apice plerumque rotundatis, 
basi acutis, margine recurvatis, nervis utrinque 9 ad 11, dis- 
tinctis; infructescentiis terminalibus, breviter pedunculatis, 6 
ad 10 cm longis; fructibus ovoideis ad ellipsoideis, 2 ad 3 cm 
longis, sepalis 4, persistentibus, parvis. 
A tree 6 to 8 m high, glabrous (flowers unknown). Leaves 
strictly opposite, thickly coriaceous, oblong to oblong-elliptic 
or narrowly obovate-elliptic, the apex usually rounded, the base 
acute, margins recurved, the upper surface smooth, greenish- 
olivaceous, shining, the lower paler; lateral nerves 9 to 11 on 
each side of the midrib; petioles stout, about 1.5 cm long. In- 
fructescences 6 to 10 cm long, glabrous, somewhat peduncled, 
branched, the bracteoles ovate, acute, about 1.5 mm long. Fruits 
ovoid to ellipsoid, pale-brownish and smooth when dry, 2 to 3 
cm long, the persistent calyx-lobes 4, small, indistinct. 
Catanduanes, Santo Domingo River, Bur. Sci. 30399 (type), SOUS 
Ramos, December 5, 1917, on forested slopes below an altitude of 100 
meters. 
