xi, c, i Merrill: Plants from Sorsogon Province, Luzon 29 
persistentibus ; fructibus supra basin bracteolis minutis 
instructis. 
A glabrous, apparently scandent shrub, the branches slender, 
terete, brown, rather smooth. Leaves oblong, firmly chartaceous 
to subcoriaceous, oblong, 5 to 7 cm long, 2 to 3 cm wide, slightly 
shining when dry, the upper surface olivaceous, the lower brown, 
apex shortly and obscurely blunt acuminate, base rounded, 
margins obscurely undulate and distantly and minutely den- 
ticulate; lateral nerves about 4 on each side of the midrib, 
slender, obscure; petioles slender, about 1.5 cm long. Inflores- 
cence axillary, 2.4 to 4 cm long, sometimes a simple raceme, more 
often with one or two short branches from the lower part form- 
ing a depauperate panicle. Pedicels about 1.5 mm long, the 
subtending bracts ovate-lanceolate, acute, about 1 mm long. 
Fruit narrowly ovoid, brown, about 3 mm long, supplied above 
the base with a pair of small, ovate, persistent bracteoles about 
0.5 mm long. Sepals broadly ovate, entirely glabrous, not at 
all punctate, rounded or obtuse, broadly ovate, about 1 mm 
long. 
Luzon, Province of Sorsogon, Mount Pocdal, Bur. Sci. 23358 Ramos, 
August 5, 1915, in forests near the summit. 
The alliance of this species is manifestly with the widely distributed and 
somewhat variable Maesa denticulata Mez, from which it can at once be 
distinguished by its smaller, much narrower, differently shaped leaves, 
which are obscurely undulate and denticulate and brownish beneath when 
dry, and its shorter inflorescences. 
SAPOTACEAE 
SIDEROXYLON Linnaeus 
SIDEROXYLON SARCOCARPU M sp. nov. 
Arbor, alta, ramulis subtus foliisque dense adpresse ferrugineo- 
chryseo-pubescentibus ; foliis oblongis vel elliptico-oblongis, usque 
ad 23 cm longis, subcoriaceis, acuminatis, basi acutis vel decur- 
rentibus, utrinque nitidis, in siccitate pallidis, nervis utrinque 
12 ad 14, subtus valde prominentibus ; floribus lateralibus, fasci- 
culatis; fructibus carnosis, glabris, ellipsoideis vel obovoideis, 
junioribus circiter 2 cm longis. 
A tall tree, the leaves beneath prominently and densely 
pubescent with short, appressed, golden-ferruginous hairs. 
Branches grayish, rather stout, glabrous, the younger parts 
densely appressed ferruginous-pubescent, the very young leaves 
densely ferruginous-pubescent throughout. Leaves oblong to 
oblong-elliptic, subcoriaceous, rather pale when dry, 12 to 23 
cm long, 4 to 9 cm wide, the upper surface entirely glabrous, 
