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on each side of the midrib, not prominent, scarcely more prominent than 
are the rather dense brownish reticulations; petioles 2 cm long or less. 
Inflorescence from the branches below the leaves and from the leaf-axils, 
about 3 cm long, pubescent, the peduncles solitary or in pairs, slender, 
about 1 cm long, each bearing two or three short branches, the flowers in 
three- to six-flowered umbels at the ends of the branches, the pedicels 2 
to 4 mm long. Calyx cup-shapecl, about 2 mm long, slightly pubescent 
or glabrous, with 5 rounded teeth 0.5 mm long. Petals (in bud) oblong, 3 
mm long, 1 mm wide; anthers 1.3 mm long. Ovary sessile, densely, vil- 
lous, 2-celled. Fruit orbicular, compressed, about 1 cm in diameter, 
apicnlate, slightly hirsute, ultimately glabrous. 
Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens 168, 892, September, 
1900, and January, 1907, also without numbers, March, May and September, 
1907. 
Well characterized by its glabrous, membranous, sharply acuminate leaves, 
lateral, rather few-flowered inflorescence, and orbicular, compressed fruits. Some 
of the specimens are indicated by the collector as trees, while others are indicated 
as epiphytes, but I can detect no difference between them. 
Pittosporum epiphyticum Merrill sp. nov. 
Glabra, epiphytica vel pseudo-epiphytica ; foliis oblongo-oblanceolatis 
vel elliptico-lanceolatis, coriaeeis, 20 ad 25 cm longis, nitidis, aeuminatis, 
integris, basi pins minus attenuatis, acutis, nervis utrinque ca. 14; fruc- 
tibus e rarnis denudatis, breviter pedicellatis, solitariis vel fasciculatis, 
leviter compressis, apice apiculato-aeuminatis, basi corclatis, ca. 2.5 cm 
longis. 
Epiphytic or pseudo-epipliytic, eventually partly terrestial, glabrous. 
Branches stout, gray, glabrous. Leaves oblong-oblanceolate or elliptical- 
lanceolate, coriaceous, shining, rather strongly acuminate, the base some- 
what attenuate, acute, entire, the margins slightly revolute, 20 to 25 cm 
long, 6 to 8 cm wide; nerves about 14 on each side of the midrib, not 
much more distinct than are the secondary nerves and rather dense 
reticulations; petioles 2 to 4 cm long. Fruits heart-shaped, borne on 
the branches below the leaves, short-peclicellate, somewhat compressed, 
glabrous, 2.5 cm long, 2 cm wide and nearly as thick, the apex apiculate- 
acuminate, the base cordate, 2-valved, solitary, or two or three at each 
node, the pedicels about 3 mm long. 
Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp Keitliley, Mrs. Clemens 1040, April, 1907, and 
without number, September, 1907. 
A species with the habit of, and closely allied to Pittosporum resiniferum 
Ilemsh, which is widely distributed on the mountains of Luzon, differing from 
that species by its much larger leaves and differently shaped fruits. Its habit, 
from the collector’s notes, is similar to that of Hemsley’s species, which is very 
like that of most species of Ficus of the section Urostigma, that is, starting as 
an epiphyte or pseudo-epipthyte, and eventually reaching the ground and becom- 
ing terrestrial, or partly terrestrial, and in the course of time probably killing its 
host. 
