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Merrill: Plantae Wenzelianae 
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An epiphytic glabrous shrub about 2 m high. Branches light- 
gray or in part reddish-brown when dry, more or less rugose, 
rather stout, the branchelets slender, reddish-brown. Leaves 
ovate, entire, thickly coriaceous, 5 to 7 cm long, 3 to 4 cm wide, 
brownish-olivaceous when dry, of about the same color and 
strongly shining on both surfaces, smooth, the lower surface 
densely and minutely puncticulate, the apex prominently acum- 
inate, the acumen up to 1 cm in length, rather broad, blunt, the 
base broadly rounded or abruptly contracted and slightly decur- 
rent-acuminate; lateral nerves about 7, slender, distinct on the 
lower surface, anastomosing, irregular, some of the secondary 
ones nearly as prominent, the reticulations rather lax; petioles 
1 to 1.5 cm long. Staminate inflorescences axillary, solitary, 
densely 4- to 10-flowered, racemose, the rachis about 3 mm long, 
or subfasciculate, the flowers 4- or 5-merous; pedicels (in fruit) 
about 2 mm long, the bracteoles subreniform, rounded, 0.5 mm 
long, 0.7 mm wide. Persistent calyx-lobes orbicular-reniform, 
margins slightly ciliate, rounded, about 1.5 mm in diameter. 
Fruit globose, 3.5 to 4 mm in diameter, with 4 or 5 pyrenes. 
Leyte, Dagami, C. W. Wenzel 99, June 5, 1913, epiphytic on large trees 
in forests, altitude about 60 meters. 
A species sufficiently well characterized by its very short, densely flow- 
ered, pistillate racemes, the rachis but 3 mm long, or the inflorescence 
so reduced at times as to appear fasciculate. 
ELAEOCARPACEAE 
ELAEOCARPUS Burmann 
ELAEOCARPUS LEYTENSIS sp. nov. (§ Monocera.) 
Species E. multi floro valde affinis, differt foliis paullo majori- 
bus, usque ad 18 cm longis, 8 cm latis, inflorescentiis floribusque 
minus pubescentibus, petalis bis latioribus, valde ventricosis. 
A tree about 20 m high, the trunk 30 cm in diameter, glabrous 
except the inflorescence. Branches light-brown, terete, somewhat 
lenticellate. Leaves oblong to oblong-elliptic, subcoriaceous, 15 
to 19 cm long, 6 to 8 cm wide, the base obtuse or somewhat 
rounded, the apex rather broadly acuminate, the margins dis- 
tantly serrate-glandular, green on both surfaces and shining 
when dry; lateral nerves about 10 on each side of the midrib, 
anastomosing, slender but prominent on the lower surface, the 
reticulations rather lax; petioles glabrous, 4 to 5 cm long. 
Racemes axillary, solitary, 12 to 14 cm long, slightly appressed- 
pubescent, in age nearly glabrous, each about 10-flowered, the 
pedicels slender, 1 to 2 cm long. Flowers white, 5-merous. 
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