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MERRILL. 
A shrub or small tree, the branches brown, smooth, somewhat 
shining, the branchlets distinctly ferruginous-furfuraceous, 
slender. Leaves oblong-elliptic to broadly oblong-oblanceolate, 
chartaceous, 10 to 16 cm long, 3 to 4.5 cm wide, subequally 
narrowed at both ends, the base acute or decurrent-acuminate, 
the apex sharply acuminate, the margins subentire or obscurely 
serrate-crenate, the upper surface slightly shining, the lower of 
about the same color, with very numerous, dark-brown glands; 
nerves slender, 25 to 30 on each side of the midrib; petioles 
about 1 cm long. Inflorescence terminal or subterminal, much 
shorter than the leaves, usually leaf-opposed with the uppermost 
leaf on the branchlet, more or less glandular-furfuraceous with 
brown glands, the branches few, the flowers umbellately 
arranged on the ultimate branchlets, about 6 in an umbel, the 
pedicels glandular, 5 to 7 mm long. Flowers about 8 mm in 
diameter. Calyx about 3.5 mm in diameter, the lobes spreading, 
triangular-ovate, glandular, acute, about 1 mm long. Corolla- 
lobes ovate, imbricate, acuminate, about 3.5 mm long, gland- 
ular-punctate. Anthers narrowly ovoid, 2 mm long, sharply 
acuminate, somewhat glandular in the median part of the back, 
subsessile. Ovary ovoid, glandular, style 4 mm long. Fruit 
globose, apparently fleshy when fresh, black when dry, about 
7 mm in diameter. 
Luzon, Province of Cagayan, Abulug River, For. Bur. 19620 Curran, 
January, 1912. 
A species of the section Acrardisia, manifestly allied to Ardisia scabrida 
Mez, but differing from that species in very many characters. 
ARDISIA RAMOSII sp. nov. § Crispardisia. 
Frutex circiter 1 m altus, glaber; foliis anguste oblong-ellip- 
ticis, membranaceis, utrinque subaequaliter angustatis, acute 
acuminatis, subtus pallidioribus, minute vel baud puncticulatis, 
subintegris vel obscurissime undulatis, usque ad 20 cm longis, 
nervis utrinque 15 ad 20; floribus ignotis; fructibus globosis, 
valde glandulosis, glabris, sepalis oblongis, obtusis, glandulosis, 
vix ciliatis, circiter 2.5 mm longis. 
A shrub about 1 m high, quite glabrous, the branches pale- 
brownish. Leaves narrowly elliptic-oblong, membranaceous, 15 
to 20 cm long, 4 to 7 cm wide, subequally narrowed at both 
ends, the base acute or cuneate, the apex slenderly and sharply 
acuminate, the margin subentire or very obscurely undulate, with 
distant glands, when dry slightly shining or dull, the lower 
surface a little paler than the upper, beneath eglandular or with 
small, scattered glands which are not more numerous toward 
