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the albumen bony, ruminate. The persistent calyx is accrescent, thickly 
coriaceous, glabrous, reflexed, forming an acuminately 4-angled tube 1 
to 1.5 cm long, and diagonally 2 to 2.5 cm in diameter, with four short, 
acute or acuminate teeth, one at each corner. The side-walls of the 
calyx-tube are concave, so that the apex of the reflexed calyx-tube is 
formed of four lobes radiating from the center to the corners of the 
tube. The peduncle is about 2 cm long in mature fruits. 
Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Port Banga, For. Bur. 91/58 (type), 917o 
Wliitford & Hutchinson, January, February, 1908, with mature fruits. BasilaN, 
San Rafael, For. Bur. 6098 Hutchinson, January, 1907, with mature fruits. Ne- 
gros, Gimagaan River, For. Bur. 1/21/3, 1/269 Everett, April, May, 1906, the 
former with abnormal inflorescence, the latter with immature flowers ; Cadiz, 
For. Bur. 1/309 Everett, For. Bur. 71/07 Danao, June 1906, 1907, the former with 
abnormal inflorescence, the latter sterile. Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Guina- 
yangan, Merrill 2007 March, 1903, with immature fruits. 
This species is well characterized by its comparatively large, 8-celled, 8-seeded 
fruits, its ruminated albumen, and especially by its persistent calyx which forms 
an acuminately 4-angled, reflexed tube. It is apparently allied to the Bornean 
Diospyros korthalsiana Hiern, but has much larger leaves, and a quite different 
calyx-tube. In some respects it resembles D. subrigida Iiochr., but is quite 
distinct from that species. Like D. curranii Merr. this species frequently has an 
abnormal, densely much branched inflorescence, apparently due to the work of 
insects. It is known in Negros as Ata-ata, in Tayabas as Anang, and in Basilan 
as Bolongita. 
Diospyros montana Roxb. PI. Coromend. 1 (1795) 37, t. J/S; Hiern Monog. 
Eben. (1873) 220. 
Luzon, Province of Nueva Ecija, near Cabanatuan, Bur. Sci. 5266 McGregor, 
September, 1908. 
A species not previously found in the Philippines, the above specimen agreeing 
rather closely with the form considered by Hiern as the variety cordifolia, except 
that the leaves are not cordate. 
India to the Moluccas and northern Australia. 
Var. parva var. nov. 
Differt a typo foliis multo minoribus, 1 ad 2.5 cm longis, subtus dense 
molliter pubescentibus ; fruetibus globosis, junioribus 8 mm diametro, 
glabris, nigris, apiculatis, 8-locelkatis ; calycis lobis accreseentibus, re- 
trorsis. 
Luzon, Province of Ilocos Norte, Badoc, For. Bur. 13953 Merritt <£- Darling, 
November, 1908, on rocky hillsides at an altitude of about 65 m. II., Antinagam. 
Well characterized by its small densely pubescent leaves; additional material 
may show it to be worthy of specific rank. 
Diospyros phanerophlebia sp. nov. 
Arbor 5 ad 10 m alta, glabra, inflorescentiis exceptiis; foliis crasse 
coriaceis, oblongis vel oblongo-lanceolatis, nitidis, basi acutis, subtus 
2-glandulosis, apice obtusis vel leviter obtuso-acuminatis, usque ad 20 
cm longis; nervis utrinque 8 ad 10, subtus prominentibus, elevatis. 
