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of the midrib, prominent, ascending, the axils on the lower sur- 
face, both of the primary nerves and the coarser secondary ones 
glandular; petioles 4 to 5 cm long, of the smaller leaves 1 to 
2 cm in length. Inflorescence a terminal, peduncled, umbellate 
corymb about 16 cm long and wide, the peduncles stout, about 
4 cm long, the primary branches about 7, spreading-ascending, 
4 to 6 cm long, then verticillately branched. Flowers white, 
fragrant, numerous. Calyx about 2.5 mm long, obscurely 5- 
toothed. Corolla cylindric, about 4 mm long, the lobes erect, 
oblong ovate, about 1.5 mm long. Filaments about 7 mm long; 
anthers 2 mm in length. Fruit oblong-ovate, compressed, 8 to 
9 mm long, about 6 mm wide, wrinkled when dry, the endocarp 
with a single broad longitudinal ridge on one side and a corre- 
sponding depression on the other side. 
Leyte, Buenavista, near Jaro, C. A. Wenzel 923, June 25, 1914, in forests, 
altitude about 500 meters. 
The height of this tree is given by Mr. Wenzel as 25 meters, the diameter 
of the trunk as 50 cm; it is probable, however, that the height was over- 
estimated by him. It is similar and allied to Viburnum glaberrimum Merr., 
from which it differs in its much larger, quite differently shaped leaves. In 
the present species the leaves gradually taper upward to the distinctly 
slenderly acuminate apex, while in V. glaberrimum the apices of the leaves 
are broadly rounded to obtuse or shortly and broadly blunt-acuminate. 
Among the extra-Philippine forms an ally of Viburnum coriaceum Blume, 
but very different from that species. 
