ix, c, 4 Merrill: Plantae Wenzelianae, II 373 
coriaceous, oblong to elliptic-oblong, 4 to 7 cm long, 2 to 3 cm 
wide, shining, apex blunt-acuminate, base acute, margins coarsely 
crenate; lateral nerves 5 to 7 on each side of the midrib, prom- 
inent, anastomosing, the axils with prominent glands; petioles 
6 to 15 mm long. Racemes axillary, solitary, up to 7 cm in length 
the rachis slender, glabrous or only slightly pubescent, usually 
about 10-flowered. Flowers 5-merous, 5 to 6 mm long, their 
pedicels slender, appressed-pubescent with scattered, shining, 
white hairs, 5 to 7 mm long. Sepals lanceolate, obscurely acum- 
inate, 5.5 mm long, 1.6 mm wide, appressed pubescent with 
scattered shining hairs. Petals as long as the sepals, slightly 
wider, the upper one-third cleft into 6 or 7 slender divisions, 
the lower one-half densely silvery pubescent on the back, margins 
densely pubescent, inside pubescent along the median line below. 
Stamens 15; anthers oblong, cells blunt, scabrid, about 2 mm 
long. Ovary ovoid very densely silvery pubescent, 2-celled. 
Leyte, Masaganap near Jaro, C. A. Wenzel 788, in forests, altitude 
about 600 meters. 
In vegetative characters very closely resembling Elaeocarpus argenteus 
Merr., but quite different from that species in its inflorescence and flowers. 
ELAEOCARPUS MOLLIS sp. nov. § Dicera. 
Arbor parva subtus foliis partibus junioribus inflorescentiis- 
que molliter pubescentibus ; foliis subellipticis, firmiter charta- 
ceis, usque ad 10 cm longis, basi acutis, apice breviter late 
obtuseque acuminatis, nervis utrinque 6 vel 7, prominentibus ; 
racemis axillaribus, circiter 3 cm longis, plerumque 6-floris ; flori- 
bus 5-meris, circiter 6 mm longis; ovario 2-loculare; fructibus 
2 ad 2.5 cm longis, obovoideo-ellipsoideis, 1-locellatis. 
A tree 6 to 8 m high, rather prominently and softly pubescent 
with short spreading hairs. Branches terete, brown, glabrous, 
the younger ones softly pubescent. Leaves subelliptic, firmly 
chartaceous, 6 to 10 cm long, 2.5 to 5 cm wide, entire or with 
distant obscure teeth, about equally narrowed to the short, blunt, 
broadly acuminate apex and to the acute base, the upper surface 
olivaceous when dry, pubescent on the midrib and nerves, the 
lower surface paler softly pubescent with scattered, spreading, 
short hairs; lateral nerves 6 or 7 on each side of the midrib, 
prominent, anastomosing, the axils sometimes bearded; petioles 
pubescent, 1 to 1.5 cm. long. Racemes solitary, axillary, pubes- 
cent with short spreading hairs, about 3 cm long, usually 6- 
flowered, the pedicels 5 to 7 mm long. Flowers 5-merous, 5 to 
6 mm long. Sepals oblong, acute, about 5 mm long, 1.2 mm 
wide, ciliate-pubescent with short spreading hairs. Petals 6 
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