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somewhat obtusej the base broadly rounded and distinctly cordate, 
the upper surface pale when dry, with numerous, short, scat- 
tered, more or less papillate hairs, the lower surface glaucescent, 
much paler than the upper, rather uniform.ly and softly hirsute 
with spreading, yellowish-brown hairs on the midrib, nerves, and 
reticulations ; lateral nerves 10 to 12 on each side of the midrib, 
very prominent on the lower surface, the reticulations lax, promi- 
nent, subparallel; petioles densely pubescent, stout, 5 mm long 
or less; stipules linear-lanceolate, acuminate, hirsute, up to 1 
cm long. Flowers white, fascicled, few in each fascicle, the 
staminate and pistillate ones intermixed. Staminate flowers: 
Pedicels hirsute, 4 to 6 mm long. Perianth campanulate, 5 mm 
in diameter, the segments 6, oblong-elliptic, about 3 mm long, 
1.4 mm wide, somewhat hirsute, subequal, acute or somewhat 
obtuse, equally narrowed at both ends. Anthers 3, 1 to 1.2 
mm long, united, the whole elliptic-oblong. Pistillate flowers: 
Perianth similar to that of the staminate ones but somewhat 
shorter, about 2 mm long, more densely hirsute. Ovary broadly 
ovoid, about 1.2 m.m in diameter, hirsute, slightly narrowed at 
the apex but not contracted, passing into the columnar, densely 
hirsute, truncate style which is about as long as the ovary, the 
ovary and style about 2.5 mm long. Capsule subglobose, about 
1.4 cm in diameter, sparingly pubescent, about 8-locellate, the 
pericarp thin, somev/hat pink or purplish when dry. 
Leyte, Dagami, C. A. Wenzel 188, June 19, 1913, in forests. 
A very striking species on account of its unusually large leaves which 
are pale when dry and prominently glaucescent on the lov/er surface. Its 
alliance is with Glochidion album (Blanco) Boerl., from which it differs in 
leaf size, pubescence, color, and in some floral and fruit characters. 
AQUIFOLIACEAE 
SLE.X Linnaeus 
(LEX WSMZELII sp. nov. (§ Thyrsoprinus, Indico-Malaicae.) 
Frutex epiphyticus, glaber, circiter 2 m altus; foliis crasse 
coriaceis, integris, ovatis, usque ad 7 cm longis, apice prominente 
obtuse acuminatis, basi subrotundatis vel leviter decurrento- 
acuminatis, in siccitate utrinque nitidis, subtus minutissime dense 
puncticulatis, nervis primariis utrinque circiter 7, distinctis; 
inflorescentiis 9 axillaribiis, solitariis, brevissime racemosis vel 
subfasciculatis, paucifloris, rhachibus circiter 3 mm longis; flor- 
ibus 4- vel 5-meris, ovario isomero; fructibus globosis, 3.5 ad 4 
mm diametro. 
