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rather distinct. Staminate flowers numerous, their pedicels 2 
to 3 mm long, axillary, fascicled. Sepals 2 mm long, ovate, 
rounded. Petals subcoriaceous, oblong-elliptic, rounded, 4 mm 
long. Anthers about 25, oblong-obovoid, 0.6 mm long, crowded 
on the flat receptacle. Rudimentary ovary none. Pistillate 
flowers axillary and terminal, solitary or fascicled, sometimes 
on a short peduncle, their pedicels 2 to 3 mm long. Sepals broadly 
orbicular-ovate to subreniform, rounded, 1.5 mm long. Ovary 
depressed-globose, 5-eelled. Rudimentary stamens about 12, their 
filaments free or nearly so, flattened, 1 mm long. Stigma ob- 
scurely 5-lobed, rounded, about 2 mm in diameter, prominently 
papillate. Fruit immature, apparently globose, fleshy, black when 
dry, 1.5 cm in diameter or more. 
Samar, Catubig River (Palapag) Bur. Sci. 21/279 Ramos (type), March 
12, 1916, Sablaya 59. Biliran, Bur. Sci. 18551 McGregor, June, 1914, in 
forests, altitude about 300 meters. 
The alliance of this species appears to be with Garcinia nigro-lineata 
Planch., from which, however, it is distinguished by numerous characters, 
notably in its much fewer lateral nerves. 
FLACOURTIACEAE 
I HOMALIUM Jaequin 
HQ M ALBUM SAMARENSE sp. nov. § Myriantheia. 
Arbor eirciter 10 m alta, inflorescentiis prominente ciliatis 
exceptis glabra; foliis ellipticis vel oblongo-ellipticis, usque ad 
10 cm longis, coriaceis vel subcoriaceis, in siccitate nitidis, 
brunneis vel olivaceo-brunneis, basi acutis ad subrotundatis, 
apice breviter acute acuminatis, margine distanter crenato-ser- 
ratis, dentibus subtus glandulosis, nervis utrinque eirciter 6, 
subtus prominentibus ; inflorescentiis terminalibus, ramis paucis, 
elongatis, valde ciliatis; floribus 6-meris, sepalis linearis, 4 ad 
5 mm longis; petalis anguste spatulatis, sepalis aequantibus, 
ciliatis ; staminibus 18. 
A tree about 10 m high, glabrous except the prominently ciliate 
inflorescence. Branches terete, slender, lenticellate, brownish- 
gray. Leaves mostly brown when dry or the upper surface 
brownish-olivaceous, shining, coriaceous or subcoriaceous, elliptic 
to oblong-elliptic, 7 to 10 cm long, 3.5 to 5 cm wide, base 
rounded to acute, apex shortly acute-acuminate, margins dis- 
tantly erenate-serrate, each tooth with a gland on the lower 
surface; lateral nerves about 6 on each side of the midrib, 
prominent, anastomosing, the reticulations distinct; petioles 5 
to 8 mm long. Racemes terminal, sometimes solitary, some- 
times arranged in a depauperate panicle supplied with reduced 
