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diameter, mostly arising from one or at most two places on the 
peduncle. 
Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Port Banga, For. Bur. 9383 Whitford 
& Hutchinson, November, 1907. 
A well marked species characterized by its sessile, rather pale, cordate, 
acuminate leaves, and its much reduced, few-flowered cymes which are 
subcapitate and at most 1 cm in diameter. It somewhat resembles some 
forms of Memecylon affine Merr., but is not closely allied to that species, 
being readily distinguished from it and its allied forms by its 4-angled, 
not terete branchlets. Its true alliance seems to be with M. venosum 
Merr., and M. paniculatum Jack, but it is very different from both. 
19. MEMECYLON SUBCAUDATUM sp. nov. 
Frutex 3 ad 4 m altus, inflorescentiis exceptis glaber, ramis 
teretibus, ramulis tenuibus, brunneis, distincte 4-angulatis ; 
foliis late lanceolatis, coriaceis, usque ad 10 cm longis, breviter 
petiolatis, basi rotundatis subcordatisque, apice subcaudato-acu- 
minatis, nervis utrinque circiter 15, distinctis, cum nervis sub- 
marginalibus arcuato-anastomosantibus ; cymis axillaribus, soli- 
tariis, paucifloris, circiter 2 cm longis, 
A shrub 3 to 4 m high, glabrous except the inflorescence. 
Branches slender, terete, brown, the branchlets similar but dis- 
tinctly 4-angled. Leaves broadly lanceolate, coriaceous, shining 
when dry, the upper surface pale-olivaceous, the lower pale- 
brownish, 8 to 11 cm long, 2.5 to 4 cm wide, narrowed above to 
the subcaudate-acuminate apex, somewhat narrowed below to the 
rounded, slightly cordate base; lateral nerves about 15 on each 
side of the midrib, prominent on the lower surface, anasto- 
mosing with the arched, prominent, submarginal nerves, the 
reticulations distinct, very lax; petioles stout, about 2 mm long. 
Cymes solitary, in the axils of fallen leaves, few, about 2 cm 
long, somewhat brown-furfuraceous, the peduncles about 1.5 
cm long. Flowers few, their pedicels about 2 mm long, the 
calyx immediately after anthesis distinctly urceolate, the limb 
somewhat spreading, truncate, about 3 mm in diameter. 
Camiguin de Mindanao, Mount Mahinog, Bur. Sci. H689 Ramos, April, 
1912, in forests. 
A species manifestly allied to Memecylon paniculatum Jack, but distin- 
guished by its much smaller, slenderly acuminate, narrower leaves and 
few-flowered cymes. 
20. MEMECYLON SORSOGONENSE Elm. Leafl. Philip. Bot. 4 (1911) 
1200. 
Luzon, Province of Sorsogon, Elmer 7310. Leyte, Elmer 7361. 
Manifestly allied to Memecylon cumingii Naud. (M. preslianum Triana), 
which it resembles in vegetative characters, but from which it is distin- 
guished by its mostly terminal, longer, quite glabrous, not at all furfur- 
aceous inflorescence. 
