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obscurely acuminate, with few, scattered, comparatively large glands. 
Anthers 2.5 mm long, apiculate, not glandular. Ovary ovoid, ferru- 
ginous-puberulent ; style about 5 mm long. Fruit globose, black-purple 
when mature, somewhat fleshy, about 7 mm in diameter. 
Mindoro, Mount Halcon, in forests, altitude about 1,800 m, Merrill 5675, 5732, 
611/5 (type), November, 1906, For. Bur. 1/31/2 Merritt; Mount Irauan, For. Bur. 
8728 Merritt, January, 1908, altitude about 1,300 m; Mount Sablayan, For. Bur. 
11012 Merritt, March, 1908, altitude about 970 m; mountains back of Abra de 
Ilog, For. Bur. 8793 Merritt, January, 1908, altitude 500 m. 
As noted above, this species is closely allied to Ardisia grossedentata Mez, 
differing in its much shorter petioles. It bears much the same relationship to 
that species as does A. curtipes Merr. to A. serrata (Cav.) A. DC. It is distin- 
guished from E. serrata var. Irevipetiolata Merr. by its ferruginous tomentum and 
differently shaped leaf-bases. 
Ardisia oblongifolia sp. nov. § Stylardisia. 
Arbor vel frutex ereeta, ramulis, foliis junioribus subtus, inflorescen- 
tiisque minute brunneo-puberulis ; foliis oblongis vel oblongo-lanceolatis, 
chartaceis, acuminatis, petiolatis, altemis; paniculis terminalibus, quam 
folia brevioribus, ramis divaricatis, paueis., 
An erect shrub or tree. Branches terete, light-gray or brownish, the 
younger ones brown-puberulent. Leaves alternate, scattered, oblong to 
oblong-lanceolate, 11 to 18 cm long, 2.5 to 5 cm wide, chartaceous, entire, 
dull or slightly shining when dry, the apex rather gradually and sharply 
acuminate, the base acute, beneath, when young, somewhat ferruginous- 
puberulent becoming glabrous, not manifestly glandular-punctate; nerves 
up to 18 on each side of the midrib, not very prominent, often obscure; 
petioles 5 to 7 mm long. Panicles terminal, pyramidal, 10 cm long 
or less, the branches few, alternate, divaricately spreading, the lower 
ones 3 to 4 cm long, the rachis, branches and branchlets puberulent 
with dark-brown hairs. Flowers subumbellately disposed;, the umbels 
peduncled and racemosely arranged on the primary panicle-branches, the 
peduncles about 5 mm long, sometimes less, the pedicels slender, 2 to 3 
mm long. Calyx about 3 mm in diameter, the five lobes ovate, obtuse, 
about 1.5 mm long, glandular-punctate, the margins minutely puberulent. 
Petals ovate, nearly free, acute, 3.5 mm long, 2.5 mm wide, not at all 
glandular-punctate. Anthers 3 mm long, not glandular. Ovary gla- 
brous ; style 3.5 to 5 mm long, often exserted before anthesis. 
Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Mrs. Clemens 779 (type), from between Malabang and 
Camp Keithley, November, 1906, and three sheets without number from Camp 
Keithley. 
Most of the flowers do not have the styles exserted, but a few of them on 
the type specimen have the styles decidedly exserted, hence the species is placed 
in the § Stylardisia. In might, with almost equal propriety, be placed in the 
§ AJcosmos. 
