ix, c, 5 Merrill: Philippine Euphorbiaceae, II 469 
the leaves softly pubescent with brownish hairs, the branchlets 
densely so. Leaves oblong, chartaceous or submembranaceous, 
oblong, 8 to 15 cm long, 3.5 to 5 cm wide, more or less narrowed 
to the rounded or subrounded base and to the rather prominently 
acuminate apex, the acumen sharp or apiculate, the upper surface 
subolivaceous when dry, shining, glabrous except for the pube- 
scent midrib, the lower surface softly pubescent with scattered 
hairs; lateral nerves about 10 on each side of the midrib, very 
prominent on the lower surface, looped-anastomosing, the reticu- 
lations lax; petioles pubescent, 2 to 3 mm long. Male racemes 
axillary, solitary, simple, slender, about 6 cm long, slightly pu- 
bescent, the flowers rather scattered, 4-merous, their pedicels 2 
mm long, the bracteoles oblong-ovate, about 0.5 mm long. Calyx 
4-lobed, the lobes about one-half as long as the calyx. Stamens 
4. Female racemes terminal and in the upper axils, simple 
or arranged in a depauperate panicle, 4 to 6 cm long, pubescent. 
Pedicels of the fruits 2 mm long. Calyx 4-cleft. Fruit red, 
somewhat compressed, narrowly ovoid, about 5 mm long, 
wrinkled when dry, glabrous ; stigma terminal. 
Luzon, Province of Rizal, Bosoboso, Bur. Sci. 1002 Ramos, June, 1906 
(type) ; Morong, Bur. Sci. 1372 Ramos, August, 1906, the former with 
staminate flowers, the latter with fruits. 
A species probably as closely allied to Antidesma pentandrum {A. ros- 
tratum ) as to any other form, but quite different from that in its vegetative 
characters, shape and pubescent of its leaves, and its more numerous lateral 
nerves. 
ANTIDESMA SAMARENSE sp. nov. 
Frutex eirciter 3 m altus, subtus foliis ad costa nervisque 
ramulis stipulisque plus minusve brunneo-villosis ; foliis oblongis 
ad oblongo-obovatis, usque ad 18 cm longis, nitidis, in siccitate 
brunneis, tenuiter acuminatis apiculatisque, basi obtusis; nervis 
utrinque eirciter 13, prominentibus, subrectis; stipulis brunneo- 
villosis, lineari-lanceolatis, acuminatis, eirciter 5 mm longis; in- 
florescentiis $ villosis, densis, spicatis, simplicibus, 2 ad 5 cm 
longis ; floribus 4- et 5-meris sessilibus, calycibus profunde divisis ; 
bracteis oblongo-lanceolatis, acuminatis, eirciter 1 mm longis. 
A shrub about 3 m high, the branchlets, stipules, and leaves 
on the midrib and lateral nerves beneath more or less brown- 
villous. Branches terete, brown or gray, glabrous, rather slen- 
der. Leaves chartaceous, oblong to oblong-obovate, or broadly 
oblong-oblanceolate, 9 to 18 cm long, 3 to 6 cm wide, brown when 
dry, the lower surface a little paler then the upper, the apex 
rather slenderly and sharply acuminate, slenderly apiculate, base 
