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subequally narrowed to both base and apex and which do not 
approach the obovate type. It is possible that Bur. Sci. 35264 
Ramos & Pascasio from Dinagat Island is referable to the same 
species. In this specimen the cymes are axillary and also 
from the axils of fallen leaves, while the leaves are relatively 
narrower and subcaudate-acuminate. The extra-Philippine 
alliance of the species seems to be with Gomphandra lanceolata 
King, of the Malay Peninsula. 
GOMPHANDRA LANCI FOLIA sp. nov. 
Arbor parva, glabra, foliis lanceolatis, brunneo-olivaceis, 
nitidis, chartaceis vel subcoriaceis, 7 ad 9 cm longis, utrinque 
subaequaliter angustatis, apice tenuiter subcaudato-acuminatis, 
nervis utrinque 3, tenuibus, reticulis obsoletis; fructibus car- 
nosis, oblongo-obovoideis ad oblanceolatis, 2.5 ad 3 cm longis, 
mesocarpio leviter sulcato. 
A glabrous tree, about 6 m high. Leaves lanceolate, charta- 
ceous or subcoriaceous, brownish-olivaceous and somewhat 
shining when dry, 7 to 9 cm long, 1.5 to 2.5 cm wide, subequally 
narrowed to the cuneate or somewhat acuminate base and to 
the slenderly subcaudate-acuminate apex, the acumen usually 
about 1 cm long; lateral nerves usually 3 on each side of the 
midrib, distant, curved-ascending, slender, the reticulations 
nearly obsolete; petioles 5 to 7 mm long. Fruits axillary, their 
peduncles up to 1 cm long, fleshy, oblong-obovate to oblanceolate, 
salmon-colored, 2.5 to 3 cm long, the mesocarp somewhat lon- 
gitudinally ridged. 
Luzon, Tayabas Province, Mount Dingalan, on the east coast, 
on dry forested slopes, altitude about 300 meters, locally known 
to the Negritos as paranuyog. 
A species well characterized by its lanceolate, subcaudate- 
acuminate, few-nerved leaves which are subequally narrowed 
to both base and apex, as well as by its rather large fruits. 
It is probably as closely allied to Stemonurus fuliginea Elm., 
which belongs in Gomphandra, as to any other described species. 
GOMPHANDRA GLABRA sp. nov. 
Arbor, circiter 10 m alta, ramulis junioribus inflorescenti- 
isque parcissime pubescentibus exceptis glabra; foliis oblongis, 
membranaceis, usque ad 11 cm longis, in siccitate nitidis, oliva- 
ceo-brunneis, acutis vel leviter acuminatis, basi subacutis, 
nervis utrinque circiter 10, subtus perspicuis ; cymis axillaribus, 
paucifloris, usque ad 3.5 cm longis; fructibus oblongis, inaequi- 
lateralibus, glabris, usque ad 8 mm longis. 
