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1918 
ovate, acute, 1 to 1.5 mm long. Corolla not seen. Fruit nar- 
rowly oblong-ovoid, 1 cm long, about 4 mm wide in the middle, 
narrowed at both ends, base acute, apex crowned by the per- 
sistent calyx-lobes, 2-celled. Seeds numerous, narrowly oblong, 
irregular, more or less flattened, 3 to 4 mm long. 
Luzon, Province of Cagayan, Abulug River, near Tauit, For. Bur. 
11626 Fischer, February, 1912, on sandstone cliifs along the river, ap- 
parently in situations subject to overflow during times of high water, 
altitude about 30 m. 
A species similar to Randia stenophylla Merr., but differing in being 
nearly glabrous, with shining leaves, and with very different fruits. 
TETRALOPHA Hooker filius 
TETRALOPHA? NIGRA sp. nov. 
Frutex scandens, glaber, ramis ramulisque in siccitate palli- 
dis, vix lenticellatis ; foliis oblongis, coriaceis, acuminatis, usque 
ad 20 cm longis, in siccitate utrinque nigris nitidisque, nervis 
utrinque circiter 10, anastomosantibus ; floribus ignotis; fruc- 
tibus depresso-globosis, nigris, 0.8 ad 1.5 cm diametro, norma- 
liter 4-locellatis, abortu 1- ad 3-locellatis, pericarpio coriaceo. 
A scandent shrub, quite glabrous. Branches terete, wrinkled 
and light-gray when dry, not at all lenticellate, the branches up 
to 8 mm in diameter, the branchlets slender. Leaves oblong, 
coriaceous, uniformly black and shining on both surfaces when 
dry, 11 to 20 cm long, 3 to 7 cm wide, subequally narrowed to 
the acute base and to the shortly acuminate apex ; lateral nerves 
10 on each side of the midrib, distinct, anastomosing, the reti- 
culations lax; petioles 1.5 to 2 cm long; stipules not seen, appar- 
ently broad, deciduous. Flowers unknown. Fruiting racemes 
axillary, solitary or fascicled, 2 to 4 cm long, with short, broad, 
stipule-like bracts at the nodes, the pedicels 3 mm long or less. 
Fruit black when dry, globose or depressed-globose, shining, nor- 
mally 4-celled, 4-seeded, often by abortion 1 to 3-celled and 
seeded, when 1-celled about 8 mm in diameter, when 3- or 4- 
celled 1.2 to 1.5 cm in diameter, the pericarp coriaceous, very 
slightly sulcate between the cells. Seeds 1 in each cell, black, 
in general obovate-oblong, irregular, more or less compressed 
and angled, about 6 mm long. 
Mindanao, Butuan Subprovince, near Butuan, Bur. Sci. 16877 Fenix, 
August 30, 1912. 
There is no more reason for placing this species in Tetralopha than in 
Gynochthodes, but as the remaining manifestly allied Philippine forms 
have been described in the former genus, the present form is so referred. 
In the absence of flowers it is difficult to determine to which genus it 
properly belongs. Tetralopha nigra differs from the three forms pre- 
