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branches terete, smooth, gray. Leaves coriaceous, oblong to 
oblong-obovate, usually brown when dry, somewhat shining, 8 to 
16 cm long, 3.5 to 7 cm wide, the base acute, apex obtuse, acute, 
or very obscurely and broadly acuminate, both surfaces, but espe- 
cially the lower one, with rather large, scattered, black glands ; 
primary lateral nerves 8 to 10 on each side of the midrib, not 
very prominent, the secondary ones nearly as distinct, the retic- 
ulations rather close; petioles 1.5 to 3 cm long. Inflorescence 
spicate or subracemose, from the axils of fallen leaves, solitary, 
2.5 to 4 cm long, the base subtended by numerous, small, im- 
bricate bracts. Flowers 4-merous, sessile or subsessile, whitish, 
the bracteoles lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 2 mm long, 0.6 
mm wide, with black glands. Calyx 2.5 mm long, black- 
glandular, the lobes ovate, acuminate, nearly 2 mm long. Petals 
4, free, oblong-ovate, acute or acuminate, 3.5 mm long, 1.7 
mm wide, black-glandular. Filaments slender, 3 mm long; 
anthers oblong, 1.5 mm long, the connective black-glandular. 
Ovary ovoid, tapering into the style. Fruit ovoid, apiculate, 
8 to 10 mm long, smooth. 
Mindoro, near Calapan, Bur. Sci. 938 Mangubat, June, 1906, said by the 
collector to be a common shrub in thickets. Probably referable here is Bur. 
Sci. 1068 Ramos (distributed as Antidesma) , from Bosoboso, Province of 
Rizal, Luzon, the specimen in fruit. 
The species is manifestly allied to Embelia viridiflora (A. DC.) Scheff., 
but differs in the size of its flowers which are sessile or subsessile, acute 
or acuminate petals, and in its leaves being punctate with decidedly scat- 
tered but prominent black glands. 
MAESA Forsk. 
MAESA FERRUGINEA sp. nov. § Eumaesa. 
Arbuscula circiter 1 m alta, ramulis foliis inflorescentiisque 
plus minusve ferrugineo-pilosis ; foliis oblongo-ovatis, crenato- 
dentatis, usque ad 12 cm longis, nervis utrinque circiter 6; ra- 
cemis axillaribus, solitariis, densis, petiolo subaequantibus vel 
brevioribus; sepalis extus dense tomentosis. 
A shrub about 1 m high, all parts rather densely and softly 
ferruginous-pilose. Branches dark-brown, pilose, with small 
scattered lenticels. Leaves chartaceous, oblong-ovate, 7 to 12 
cm long, 2.5 to 5.5 cm wide, both surfaces pilose with soft 
scattered hairs, base rounded or subacute, apex acute or slightly 
acuminate, margins distinctly crenate-serrate ; petioles very 
densely ferruginous-pilose, about 2 cm long; nerves 5 to 7 pairs, 
prominent, reticulations indistinct. Inflorescence racemose, 
densely pilose, very rarely in depauperate panicles, the racemes 
dense, many-flowered, usually about as long as the petioles ; pedi- 
