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KUTACE^E. 
ATALANTIA Correa. 
Atalantia linearis (Blanco). Limonia linearis Blanco, FI. Filip, ed. 1 (1837) 
357. Limonia nwnopln/Ua, Blanco, 1. c. ed. 2 (1845) 252; ed. 3, 2 (1878) 
103; Merrill, Govt. Lab. Publ. 27 (1905) 28, non Linn. Atalantia mono- 
pliylla F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 27, non Correa. 
A slii’iil) 1 to 3 ni. high. Branches light gray, glabrous, the young 
hranchlets greenish, puliescent or puberulent, terete. Leaves alternate, 
linear to narrowly linear-oblong or linear-lanceolate, glabrous, shining, 
coriaceous, 2 to 7 cm. long, 3 to 10 mm. wide, the base acute, the apex 
blunt, retuse, entire, the inai’gins often somewhat recurved, the midrib 
prominent, the lateral nerves numerous, scarcely more distinct than the 
dense reticulations; petioles glabrous or pubescent, 3 mm. long or less. 
Inflorescence of terminal and axillary panicles, 3 to 5 cm. long, pubescent, 
the branches short, few flowered. Flowers white, .short pediceled, about 
G.5 mm. long. Calyx short, regularly 5-lobed, the lobes imbricate, 
lu'oadly suborbicular, rounded, about 2 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide, pubes- 
cent, the margins ciliate. Petals 5, free, oblong, the apex rounded, 6 
to 6.5 mm. long, about 3 mm. wide, somewhat narrowed at the base. 
Stamens 5; filaments broad, 4- mm. long; anthers about 1.4 mni. long. 
Ovary glabrous, 3-celled, sessile, the disk shallow. Fruit glabrous, 
globose, white, glandular-punctate, about 8 mm. in diameter. 
Luzon, Province of Rizal, jNfontalban (3392 Ahern’s collector) November 28, 
1905; (5044 Merrill) March S, 1900, the former in flower, tlie latter with mature 
fruit. On cliffs and boulders at an altitude of about 40 m. along the river, 
frequently in situations submerged at high water associated especially with 
Eugenia mimica Merr., and sometimes with H omonoya riparia Lour. T., Dayap 
na monti (Blanco), Agvhu (Ahern’s collector). 
A species at once recognized by its veiy narrow leaves, which are retuse at the 
a|)ex. Blanco’s original description of this species is very short, his material 
being from the Island of Marieaban, Province of Batangas, Luzon, flowering in 
the month of July. In this description he states that the leaves are minutely 
sei'rate, probably from the fact that in specimens with recvirved leaf margins, 
the slightly raised veins on the upper surface appear like ininute teeth. The 
note following the description of the species in the first edition of the Flora 
de Filipinas is excluded in the second, this note referring to a similar form 
observed by Blanco in the Province of Bulacan, Luzon. I am of the opinion 
that the form here described is identical with Blanco’s Lhiiouia, linearis, and 
accordingly his specific name is adopted and the species is redescribed under 
/I lalantia. 
Atalantia retusa Merrill sp. nov. 
A slirul) about 3 m. high, with ol)loiig elliptical to clliptical-ovatc. 
subcoriaceous, glalu’ous, strongly retuse leaves, racemose inflorescence 
and 5- to 7-mei'ous flowers, the stamens 10 to 15, free, the ovary 1-eelled. 
Branches brownish gray, glabrous, the hranchlets green, glabrous. Leaves 
5 to 9 cm. long, 2.5 to 4 cm. wide, shining, broad at both ends, scarcely 
narj-owed above, the base rounded; nerves numerous, anastomosing; 
