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compressed or angled. Leaves membranaceous to chartaceous, 
uniformly black and shining on both surfaces when dry, lanceo- 
late to oblong-lanceolate, 18 to 25 cm long, 5 to 7 cm wide, sub- 
equally narrowed to the acuminate base and apex ; lateral nerves 
about 15 on each side of the midrib, prominent, slightly curved, 
anastomosing, the reticulations lax; petioles 2 to 3 cm long; 
stipules broadly ovate, abruptly acuminate, about 5 mm long. 
Panicles terminal, peduncled, black when dry, sparingly puber- 
ulent, 11 to 13 cm long, 3-branched, the flowers somewhat 
crowded toward the ends of the branches. Flowers white, black 
when dry, 5-merous, their pedicels 6 mm long or less. Calyx 
slightly puberulent, urceolate, about 2.5 mm long, truncate or 
very obscurely 5-toothed. Corolla-tube glabrous, not even 
bearded at the throat, about 6 mm long, the lobes oblong-oblan- 
ceolate, obtuse, about 12 mm long and 2.5 mm wide. Anthers 
10 mm long. Ovary 2-celled, cells 1-ovulate; style and stigma 
about 2.2 mm long, the former slightly pubescent in the median 
part. 
Mindanao, Zamboanga District, Port Banga, For. Bur. 9013 
Whitford & Hutchinson, November 29, 1907, on forested ridges, 
altitude about 30 meters. 
This species is strongly characterized by its elongated, many- 
nerved Reaves; its peduncled, trifid inflorescences; its 5-merous 
flowers; and short corolla-tube which is not bearded at the 
throat, the lobes being twice as long as the tube. The plant is 
entirely glabrous except the sparingly puberulent inflorescence. 
PAVETTA WILLIAMS! I sp. nov. 
Arbor circiter 4.5 m alta, molliter pubescens ; foliis in siccitate 
nigris, nitidis, membranaceis vel chartaceis, usque ad 25 cm 
longis, oblongo-ellipticis ad oblongo-obovatis, acuminatis, basi 
acutis, nervis utrinque circiter 7, perspicuis; inflorescentiis co- 
rymbosis, laxis, multifloris, usque ad 10 cm longis et 15 cm latis ; 
floribus 4-meris, corollae tubo circiter 11 mm longo, lobis oblon- 
gis, obtusis, 8 mm longis. 
A small tree, about 4.5 m high, the branchlets, lower surface 
of the leaves, and inflorescences softly pubescent, the leaves, 
flowers, and inflorescences black when dry. Branches terete, 
smooth, brownish or grayish, glabrous. Leaves oblong-elliptic to 
oblong-obovate, membranaceous to chartaceous, 15 to 25 cm long, 
6 to 9 cm wide, rather prominently acuminate, base acute, black 
and shining when dry, the upper surface glabrous, or when young 
sparingly puberulent, the lower surface softly pubescent with 
