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MERRILL. 
ceous, shining, 15 to 20 cm long, 5 to 7 cm wide, entire, apex 
apparently obtuse, base acute, equilateral or subequilateral, 
never rounded on one side; lateral nerves 6 or 7, slender, as- 
cending; petioles about 1 cm long. Flowers unknown. Fruit 
from the old branches below the leaves, solitary or fascicled, 
from tubercles, globose, fleshy, glabrous, apparently about 4 cm 
in diameter, red, with an agreeable flavor {teste Foxworthy), 
each with two seeds. 
Negros, Mount Marapara, For. Bur. 136^0 Curran & Foxworthy, Sep- 
tember, 1909, on forested ridges, altitude about 700 meters. 
Very similar to Cyclostemon megacarpus Merr., and perhaps not specif- 
ically distinct. The material, however, shows no intergradations in the 
differential character presented by the bases of the leaves. 
CYCLOSTEMON SUBCRENATUS sp. nov. 
Arbor circiter 12 m alta; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis, chartaceis 
vel subcoriaceis, usque ad 8 cm longis, rectis vel leviter falcatis, 
plus minusve inaequilateralibus, apice obtuse acuminatis, basi 
acutis vel leviter acuminatis, margine distincte irregulariter 
crenatis ; f ructibus axillaribus, oblongo-ellipsoideis, dense griseo- 
puberulis, circiter 1 cm longis, 6 mm diametro, 1-locularibus, 
1-spermis. 
A tree about 12 m high, glabrous except the obscurely pu- 
berulent petioles, younger branches and the infrutescence. 
Branches terete, grayish, lenticellate, rather slender, glabrous, 
younger ones somewhat olivaceous, more or less angular and 
slightly puberulent. Leaves alternate, oblong-lanceolate, char- 
taceous or subcoriaceous, of the same color and shining on both 
surfaces when dry, 5 to 8 cm long, 1.5 to 2.5 cm wide, straight 
or somewhat falcate, the base somewhat inequilateral, acute or 
somewhat acuminate, the apex obscurely and bluntly acuminate, 
the margins distinctly and irregularly crenate; primary nerves 
about 10 on each side of the midrib, not prominent, anastomos- 
ing, scarcely more distinct than are the secondary nerves and 
the reticulations; petioles 2.5 to 5 mm long. Flowers unknown. 
Fruits axillary, solitary, oblong-ellipsoid, densely gray-puberu- 
lent outside, about 1 cm long and 6 mm in diameter, crowned by 
the styles, 1-celled, 1-seeded, the pedicels very slightly pubescent, 
about 4 mm long. 
Luzon, Province of Batangas, near Santo Tomas, For. Bur. 21567 Ta- 
mesis, May 22, 1910, in forests at an altitude of about 200 m, locally known 
as balichican. 
A species distinguished from the other Philippine representatives of the 
genus by its comparatively narrow leaves which are distinctly crenate. In 
some respects it resembles C. cumingii Benth., but has much smaller, 
differently shaped leaves. 
