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This species is readily distinguished by its narrowly lanceo- 
late, very sharply acuminate and cartilaginous-mucronate leaves 
as well as by its terminal, fascicled fruits, these being obovoid 
and much narrowed below the middle to form a very distinct 
pseudostalk. 
PITTOSPORUM ACUMINATISSiMUM sp. nov. 
Frutex epiphyticus vel pseudo-epiphyticus, glaber, ramulis te- 
nuibus; foliis chartaceis, oblongis ad oblongo-ellipticis, nitidis, 
tenuiter acute acuminatis, usque ad 8 cm longis, nervis utrinque 
7 ad 9, tenuibus ; inflorescentiis solitariis, lateralibus et termina- 
libus, brevibus, 3-floris; floribus circiter 12 mm longis, ovario 
dense villoso; fructibus leviter compressis, 2-valvis, ellipsoideis, 
circiter 23 cm longis, valvis crasse carnoso-coriaceis, in siccitate 
rugosis. 
An epiphytic or pseudoepiphytic shrub, entirely glabrous ex- 
cept the densely pubescent ovaries, the ultimate branches slender, 
2 to 3 mm in diameter. Leaves chartaceous, oblong to oblong- 
elliptic, brownish-olivaceous when dry, 5 to 8 cm long, 2 to 4 
cm wide, the apex sharply and slenderly acuminate, base acute ; 
lateraf nerves 7 to 9 on each side of the midrib, slender as are 
the reticulations ; petioles 2 to 3 cm long, slender. Inflorescences 
usually solitary, lateral, rarely terminal, usually 3-flowered, their 
peduncles 5 mm long or less, the pedicels 5 to 10 mm long. Calyx 
shallowly cup-shaped, about 4 mm in diameter, the lobes broadly 
ovate, obtuse, 1.5 to 1.8 mm long. Petals 5, narrowly oblong, 
11 mm long, 3.5 mm wide, obtuse. Filaments 4 to 4.5 mm long. 
Ovary oblong-ovoid, densely villous ; style glabrous, 1.5 mm long. 
Capsules ellipsoid, somewhat compressed, 2-valved, about 2.3 cm 
long, 1.8 cm wide, the valves thick, fleshy-coriaceous, rugose 
when dry. 
Panay, Capiz Province, Mount Macosolon, Bur. Sci. 307-^5 
Ramos & Edaho, April 21, 1918, on trees in forests. 
This form has the same habit as Pittosporum resiniferum 
Hemsl. and is manifestly closely allied to that species. It differs 
in its smaller leaves and its usually solitary, lax, few-flowered 
inflorescences; in Hemsley’s species the flowers are borne in 
dense fascicles, while in the present species they are in depau- 
perate, 3-flowered, usually solitary cymes. 
PITTOSPORUM GLABERRIMUM sp. nov. 
Frutex glaberrimus, ramulis tenuibus; foliis verticillatis, 3- 
vel 4-natis, oblongo-lanceolatis, utrinque angustatis, acutis vel 
leviter acuminatis, nervis utrinque 6 vel 7, tenuibus, distinctis; 
