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prominently acuminate, narrowed from the upper two-thirds to 
the acute or abruptly obtuse base, the margins quite entire; 
lateral nerves, at least on larger leaves, up to 45 on each side 
of the midrib, very prominent, faintly anastomosing near the 
margins, the reticulations slender, not very prominent; petioles 
stout, thickened at their apices, about 10 cm long. Male pani- 
cles axillary, in young bud narrow, spike-like, the linear bracts 
about 5 mm long. Open flowers and fruits not seen. 
Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Port Banga, For. Bur. 9299 Whitford 
& Hutchinson, January 7, 1908, in dipterocarp forests, altitude about 50 
meters. 
A species distinguishable by its very large, quite entire, coriaceous leaves 
which have about 45 pairs of very prominent lateral nerves. 
LUNASIA NIGROPUNCTATA sp. nov. 
Species L. amarae simillima et affinis, differt foliis subtus valde 
nigro-punctatis, capsulis vix rostratis. 
A shrub about 4 m high, the branches, branchlets, petioles, 
and inflorescences densely pale-lepidote, somewhat shining. 
Leaves subcoriaceous, oblong-oblanceolate to narrowly obovate- 
oblancolate, 22 to 25 cm long, 5.5 to 6.5 cm wide, rather gradually 
narrowed from above the middle to the acute or somewhat obtuse 
base, the apex broadly blunt-acuminate, the margins irregularly 
undulate or slightly repand, the upper surface dark-olivaceous 
when dry, shining, glabrous, or with scattered lepidote scales 
along the midrib, the lower surface much paler, with scattered 
lepidote scales, and with numerous, black, shining, round glands 
which are distinct to the naked eye, 1 to 4 glands to each ultimate 
reticulation; lateral nerves about 25 on each side of the midrib, 
prominent, anastomosing ; petioles 5 to 6 cm long. Inflorescences 
axillary, solitary, apparently narrowly paniculate, in fruit 6 
cm long or less. Capsules usually of three cocci, by abortion 
sometimes reduced to two, rarely to one, densely lepidote, pale, 
shining, the individual cocci obovoid, base rounded, apex trun- 
cate, about 12 mm long, 9 to 10 mm wide across the top, concen- 
trically wrinkled when dry, the outer corner scarcely rostrate, or 
very shortly so. 
Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Baler, Bur. Sci. 21188 Escritor, June, 1913. 
A species manifestly closely allied to Lunasia amara Blanco which it 
strongly resembles, but from which it differs in its rather remarkable black 
glandular-punctate leaves and in its scarcely rostrate capsules. In Lunasia 
amara, while the leaves are glandular-punctate, the glands are never black 
and shining as in the present species, while the capsules are very promi- 
nently rostrate on the upper outer angle of each coccus. 
