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MERRILL. 
glabrous, both surfaces shining, the lower of about the same 
color as, or a little paler than, the upper; lateral nerves about 
8, very prominent on the lower surface, curved-ascending, anas- 
tomosing, the primary reticulations rather lax, prominent; pe- 
tioles 5 to 10 mm long, prominently ciliate. Cymes axillary, 
small, sessile or subsessile, dense, not longer than the petioles, 
ciliate, many-flowered, the bracteoles lanceolate, 2 mm long or 
less. Sepals oblong, obtuse, 2 mm long, outside densely pubes- 
cent. Petals narrowly oblong-spatulate, the apex broad, retuse 
or slightly cleft, the cleft less than 0.5 mm deep, the base nar- 
rowed. Filaments about 2 mm long ; anthers 1 mm long. Ovary 
pubescent. Fruit broadly ellipsoid, more or less compressed, 
densely gray-pubescent, about 1.5 cm long, divided longitudinally 
by deep lateral grooves and slightly retuse at the apex, 2-celled. 
Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Port Banga, For. Bur. 9293 (type), 
929^., 923U Whitford & Hutchinson, December, 1907 and January, 1908, 
Bur. Sci. 11819 Robinson, July, 1910, in forests at low altitudes. 
A species well caracterized by its prominently ciliate branchlets, in- 
florescence, and leaves, the latter glabrous except for the ciliate midrib 
and lateral nerves on both surfaces and usually also the margins. 
DICHAPETALUM ROBINSONII sp. nov. 
Arbor parva, circiter 8 m alta, subtus foliis ramulis inflores- 
centiisque dense sericeo-villosis ; foliis subcoriaceis, late ellipticis 
vel ovato-ellipticis, usque ad 15 cm longis, supra nitidis, parce 
pubescens, basi rotundatis, apice acutis, nervis utrinque circiter 
9, prominentibus ; petiolo crasso, circiter 4 mm longo; inflores- 
centiis in axillis superioribus vel subterminalibus, breviter pe- 
dunculatis, floribus congestis ; fructibus obovoideis, dense breviter 
fulvo-villosis. 
A small tree, reaching a height of 8 m, the branches terete, 
reddish-brown, somewhat pubescent, the younger branchlets 
densely covered with short, villous, fulvous hairs, as are the 
petioles, inflorescence, and lower surfaces of the leaves. Leaves 
subcoriaceous, broadly elliptic to ovate-elliptic, 10 to 14 cm long, 
6 to 8 cm wide, the upper surface brownish-olivaceous when 
dry, shining, sparingly pubescent, the hairs more numerous on 
the midrib and nerves, the lower surface densely fulvous-pubes- 
cent with short hairs; petioles about 4 mm long; lateral nerves 
about 9, prominent, the primary reticulations rather lax, distinct. 
Inflorescence in the upper axils and subterminal, shortly pe- 
duncled, up to 4 cm long, all parts fulvous-villous, the bracteoles 
linear, 1 to 1.5 mm long. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute or 
somewhat acuminate, about 2 mm long, externally densely pubes- 
