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always more or less greenish-yellow when dry, and the lateral nerves are 
obsolete or nearly so. The inflorescence is entirely glabrous, and the 
flowers are somewhat larger than in any of the allied species having more 
or less similar vegetative characters. The reinstatement of Blanco’s 
species as a valid one invalidates the Bornean Memecylon lanceolatum 
Cogn., for which the new name MEMECYLON BORNEENSE is proposed. 
Memecylon calleryanum Naud. in Ann. Sci. Nat. Ill 18 (1852) 275; 
Walp. Ann. 4 (1857) 803; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. F (1855) erne cy Ion 
cumingianum Presl var. calleryanum Cogn. in DC. Monog. Phan. 7 (1891) 
1168. This form was based on a specimen collected in the Province of 
Pangasinan, Luzon, by Gallery. From the description, in connection with 
our ample material of M. lanceolatum Blanco, I can see no reason for dis- 
tinguishing it. The differential characters are in the size of the leaves 
and length of the inflorescence. I have little hesitation in considering 
Naudin’s species a synonym of Blanco’s Memecylon lanceolatum, but a 
critical study of the type may alter this opinion. 
Memecylon cumingianum Presl=M. lanceolatum Blanco is also found in 
Borneo and in Celebes, fide Cogniaux. 
5. MEMECYLON ODORATUM Elm. Leafl. Philip. Bot. 4 (1911) 1196. 
Palawan, Elmer 13H0 (type collection). 
The species is well characterized by its terete branchlets, obtuse or 
rounded, petioled leaves, and fascicled, not cymose inflorescence. It does 
not appear to be closely allied- to M. sessilifolium Merr., to which it was 
compared. 
Endemic. 
6. MEMECYLON SUBFURFURACEUM sp. nov. 
Arbor parva, usque ad 8 m alia, inflorescentiis fusco-furfura- 
ceis exceptis glabra; ramis ramulisque teretibus; foliis charta- 
ceis vel subcoriaceis, oblongo-ovatis ad ovato-lanceolatis, penni- 
nerviis, acuminatis, basi acutis, petiolatis, usque ad 14 cm longis, 
nitidis, subtus pallidioribus, nervis utrinque circiter 12, tenuibus, 
indistinctis, obscure anastomosantibus ; cymis axillaribus, soli- 
tariis, pedunculatis, multifloris, 3 ad 5 cm longis, alabastro 
obtuso. 
A small tree 5 to 8 m high, quite glabrous except the 
rather densely brown-furfuraceous inflorescence. Branches and 
branchlets slender, terete, grayish to reddish-brown. Leaves 
oblong-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, penninerved, chartaceous to sub- 
coriaceous, 10 to 14 cm long, 3.5 to 6 cm wide, olivaceous-brown 
when dry, shining, the lower surface a little paler than the 
upper, the apex rather slenderly acuminate, the acumen sharp 
or somewhat blunt, the base acute; lateral nerves about 12 on 
each side of the midrib, slender, not prominent, anastomosing 
with the very slender and indistinct marginal nerves; petioles 
3 to 4 mm long. Cymes 3 to 5 cm long, axillary, solitary, 
peduncled, many-flowered, all parts in anthesis rather densely 
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