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including the pseudo-stalk, about 4 mm long, narrow below, 
above abruptly widened and 6 to 7 mm in diameter, the lobes 
glandular-punctate, in anthesis sparingly ciliate on the margins, 
orbicular-ovate, rounded, spreading, subpersistent or persistent. 
Petals 4, about 1 cm long, elliptic to elliptic-obovate, rounded, 
rather prominently nerved. Stamens indefinite, their filaments 
about 1 cm long. 
Samar, Catubig River at Pinipisakan and at Palapag, Bur. Sci. 2bb53 
(type), Ramos, March, 1916, in damp forests at low altitudes, locally 
known as tulanan, the wood very hard. 
The alliance of this species is with Eugenia aherniana C. B. Rob. from 
which it is readily distinguished by its glabrous or nearly glabrous 
inflorescence and much larger flowers. From Eugenia kamelii Merr. it is 
readily distinguished by its much smaller leaves and by numerous other 
characters. 
LOGANIACEAE 
STRYCHNOS Linnaeus 
STRYCHNOS WENZELII sp. nov. 
Frutex seandens, inflorescentiis leviter adpresse ferrugineo- 
pubescentibus exceptis glaber ; foliis chartaceis, in siccitate utrin- 
que castaneis valde nitidisque, ellipticis ad oblongo-ellipticis, 
usque ad 15 cm longis, breviter acuminatis, basi subacutis ad 
rotundatis, 5-pli- vel 5-nerviis ; inflorescentiis axillaribus, pedun- 
culatis, 1.5 ad 3 cm longis; floribus 3 mm longis, extus glabris, 
lobis intus ad basin linea dense hirsuta instructis; antheris basi 
leviter barbatis; fructibus ellipsoideis, brunneis, laevis, nitidis, 
circiter 1 cm longis, monospermis. 
A scandent shrub, attaining a length of 10 m, entirely glabrous 
except the sparingly appressed ferrugineous-pubescent inflores- 
cence. Branches and branchlets slender, terete, smooth, shin- 
ing, dark-brown when dry. Leaves chartaceous, elliptic to 
oblong-elliptic, 7 to 15 cm long, 4 to 8 cm wide, when dry chest- 
nut-brown and strongly shining on both surfaces, base acute to 
rounded, apex shortly blunt-acuminate ; basal nerves 5, the inner 
pair more prominent than the outer, all leaving the midrib at 
or near the base or the inner pair up to 1 cm above the base, 
the reticulations lax, distinct; petioles 5 to 8 mm long. Cymes 
axillary, peduncled, including the peduncle 1.5 to 3 cm long, 
sparingly appressed-ferruginous-pubescent, the bracts 2 to 2.5 
mm long, the bracteoles smaller. Flowers green and white, 
rather numerous, 5-merous, their pedicels about 2 mm long. 
Sepals broadly ovate, rounded or slightly apiculate, about 1 mm 
long, margins slightly ciliate. Corolla-tube about 1.8 mm long, 
glabrous, the lobes oblong-ovate, obtuse, about 1.2 mm long, 
