17,3 Merrill: Noteworthy Philippine Plants, XVI 303 
2 or 3 greatly reduced, narrowly lanceolate leaves about 1.5 cm 
in length, the apical 1 to 2 cm slightly thickened, about 1.5 mm 
in diameter, these thickened parts supplied with many narrowly 
lanceolate, acuminate bracts 5 to 10 mm in length and marked 
with numerous scars of fallen bracts, this thickened portion 
bearing 1 or 2 siender, few-flowered racemes 1 to 1.5 cm long. 
Flowers 5-merous, reddish; the sepals narrowly oblong, about 
1 mm long, with few, large, prominent glands. 
Mindanao, Surigao Province, Bur. Sci. 3UU56 Ramos & Pas- 
casio, April 14, 1919, on rocky forested slopes at low altitudes. 
This species is similar and manifestly closely allied to Dis- 
cocalyx angustissima Merr., from which it is distinguished by its 
entire leaves. 
EBENACEAE 
DIOSPYROS Linnaeus 
DIOSPYROS LONGICILIATA sp. nov. 
Frutex parvus, ramulis et petiolis et foliis perspicue longe 
ciliatis, ramis ramulisque ten«uibus; foliis chartaceis, oblongo- 
lanceolatis, 9 ad 16 cm longis, basi rotundatis, apice tenuiter 
acute acuminatis, nervis utrinque circiter 12; floribus longe cil- 
iatis, axillaribus, solitariis, sessilibus, calycis tubo brevissimo, 
lobis lanceolatis, acuminatis, circiter 4 mm longis ; ovario densis- 
sime ciliato. 
A small shrub, the branchlets, petioles and portions of the 
leaves prominently ciliate with long, slender, spreading hairs, 
these hairs usually about 2 to 3 mm in length. Branches slender, 
erect, glabrous, black when dry. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, char- 
taceous, 9 to 16 cm long, 2 to 3.5 cm wide, brownish-olivaceous 
when dry, base rounded, apex rather slenderly and sharply 
acuminate, both surfaces and the margins long-ciliate with scat- 
tered hairs, these more numerous on the midrib than on other 
parts of the leaf; lateral nerves slender, about 12 on each side 
of the midrib, anastomosing, the reticulations lax, distinct; pet- 
ioles about 3 mm long. Pistillate flowers solitary, axillary, 
sessile, 4-merous. Calyx-tube very short, the lobes lanceolate, 
prominently long-acuminate from a broad base, about 4 mm long, 
conspicuously long-ciliate. Corolla reddish, the tube about 5 
mm long, externally long-ciliate, the lobes oblong, about 6 mm 
in length. Staminodes 4. Ovary very densely ciliate with long 
ascending hairs up to 4 mm in length; style densely hirsute 
below. 
Dinagat, Bur. Sci. 35189, Ramos & Pascasio, May 11, 1919, 
in forests at low altitudes. 
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