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The Philippine Journal of Science 
1914 
specimens from Singapore distributed from the Botanic Garden as Antidesma 
cuspidatum, A. moritzii, and A. fallax, all apparently referable to the first 
species. From A. cuspidatum the above species differs in its rather short 
calyx-lobes and its short ovate bracteoles. From A. moritzii it differs in 
its simple racemes, nearly glabrous leaves, and glabrous branches. Similarly 
it differs from A. fallax in its simple racemes very much shorter petioles, 
and other characters. 
ANTIDESMA CURRANII sp. nov. 
Arbor parva, partibus junioribus inflorescentiisque exceptis 
glaber ; foliis subcoriaceis vel chartaceis, oblongo-ovatis vel 
oblongis, tenuiter acuminatis, basi acutis vel subrotundatis, usque 
ad 15 cm longis, nutidis, subtus pallidioribus, nervis utrinque 
7 ad 9, prominentibus ; inflorescentiis $ axillaribus, paniculatis, 
floribus 4-meris, racemose dispositis, calycis ad medium divisis, 
lobis oblongis, obtusis ; fructibus anguste ovoideis, 4 mm longis ; 
stigmate terminalibus. 
A small tree, glabrous except the branchlets and the inflores- 
cence. Branches slender, dark-brown, lenticellate, terete, glab- 
rous, the growing branchlets slightly pubescent. Leaves oblong- 
ovate to oblong, chartaceous or subcoriaceous, glabrous, 9 to 15 
cm long, 3.5 to 5.5 cm wide, the upper surface rather dark- 
colored, the lower much paler, both shining, when dry, the base 
acute or somewhat rounded, the apex rather slenderly acuminate ; 
lateral nerves 7 to 9 on each side of the midrib, prominent on 
the lower surface, anastomosing, the reticulations distinct, rather 
lax; petioles 1 to 1.4 cm long; bracteoles oblong, pubescent, 3 
mm long. Infructescence axillary, solitary, paniculate, 2 to 3 
cm long, sparingly pubescent, the fruits racemosely arranged on 
the rather short (1 cm) branches, the bracteoles lanceolate, 
acuminate, 1.2 mm long, the pedicels about 1 cm long. Fruit 
red, narrowly-ovoid, compressed, glabrous, wrinkled when dry, 
4 mm long; stigma terminal; persistent calyx-lobes oblong, ob- 
tuse, about 1 mm long, more than one-half the length of the 
calyx. 
Luzon, Subprovince of Benguet, Baguio, in stream depressions, For. 
Bur. 5087 Curran, August, 1906. 
A species in the same group with Antidesma pentandrum (Blanco) Merr. 
(A. rostratum Tul.), but not at all closely allied to that form, and ap- 
parently not very close to any other known Philippine species. The short, 
paniculate, slightly pubescent, solitary, axillary infructescences, and the 
slenderly acuminate leaves are characteristic. 
ANTIDESMA OBLIQU I N ERVI U M sp. nov. 
Frutex 3 ad 5 m altus, partibus junioribus leviter villosis vel 
pubescentibus ; foliis chartaceis vel submembranaceis, oblongo- 
ellipticis, utrinque subaequaliter angustatis, usque ad 10 cm 
