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smooth, glabrous, pale-olivaceous, shining, the lower very 
slightly puberulent and minutely scaberulous, of about the same 
color as the upper surface; lateral nerves 9 on each side of the 
midrib, very prominent, curved, arched-anastomosing, the re- 
ticulations prominent, lax; petioles about 3 cm long. Infruc- 
tescences about 8 cm long and about as wide, trichotomously 
branched, the peduncles about 2 cm long, slightly pubescent, the 
bracts lanceolate, acuminate, 5 to 7 mm long. Fruits yellow 
when fresh, when dry pale to black, rugose, glabrous, globose, 
8 to 10 mm in diameter, each containing from 4 to 6 seeds, 
the seeds irregular, angular, somewhat cupped, rugose. 
Catanduanes, Bur. Sci. 30387 Ramos, December 2, 1917, in 
forests along Santo Domingo River at low altitudes. 
The alliance of this species is with Tarenna scaberula Merr., 
from which it is distinguished by its larger, differently shaped, 
fewer-nerved leaves, which are smooth and glabrous above and 
only very obscurely puberulent beneath. Like T. scaberula it 
belongs in the group that in facies simulates Pavetta, but is 
distinguished from Pavetta in having several seeds in each cell. 
TARENNA ELONGATA sp. nov. 
Frutex glaber vel leviter pubescens; foliis lanceolatis, coria- 
ceis, 17 ad 30 cm longis, utrinque subaequaliter angustatis, basi 
cuneatis, apice acuminatis, nervis utrinque 7 vel 8, adscendenti- 
bus, perspicuis; inflorescentiis usque ad 12 cm longis, ramis 
paucis; calycis leviter urceolatis, circiter 4 mm longis, corollae 
tubo brevissimo, lobis circiter 8 mm longis; fructibus globosi's, 
8 mm diametro, seminibus 10 ad 12, angulatis. 
A shrub, about 2 m high, glabrous or sparingly pubescent, the 
branches reddish-brown. Leaves lanceolate, coriaceous, 17 to 
30 cm long, 3 to 6 cm wide, olivaceous, somewhat shining, 
subequally narrowed to the distinctly acuminate apex and to 
the cuneate or somewhat decurrent base ; lateral nerves usually 
7 or 8 on each side of the midrib, curved, ascending, prominent ; 
petioles 2 to 3.5 cm long; stipules ovate to lanceolate, acuminate, 
up to 1 cm long. Inflorescences terminal, peduncled or branched 
from the base, up to 12 cm long, the branches few, spreading, 
glabrous or somewhat pubescent, few-flowered. Calyx somewhat 
urceolate, about 4 mm long, the corolla-tube very short, the 
lobes up to 8 mm in length. Fruits globose, black when dry, 
shining, about 8 mm in diameter, 10- to 12-seeded, the seeds 
angular, about 4 mm long. 
