ALABASTRA PHILIPPINENSIA, II. 
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A tree attaining a height of 24 m, with a trunk 40 cm in diameter, 
containing little gum, the bark grayish, that of the ultimate branches 
brownish-gray, many-ridged and furrowed, shortly ferruginous-tomentose 
or glabrescent, conspicuously scarred by lenticels, the buds surrounded 
by very conspicuous oblong scales 1.7 cm long and 9 m m wide, ar- 
genteous without, pergamaceous ; leaves borne on stout petioles 1. 5-2.5 
cm long, the lamina oblanceolate to obovate, 21-43 cm long, 7.5-16 cm 
wide, at the ay>ex shortly and usually obtusely acuminate, acute at the 
base, glabrous on the upper surface, very densely and very minutely 
lepidote on the under surface, or when young somewhat ferruginous- 
tomentose; midrib very prominent on the under surface, primary lateral 
veins on each side of the midrib 17 or 18. 
Type collected at Camp Keithley, Lake Lanao, Mindanao, by Mary Strong 
Clemens, no. 101 7, in flower and fruit, April, 1907 ; also represented by Mrs. Cle- 
mens 1151f, 1155a, September, 1907, and 5 unnumbered sheets, collected in May and 
June, 1907, all from the same locality; also by Williams 2191, 2308, 2318, all from 
Sax River, District of Zamboanga, Mindanao, February and March, 1905; the 
various specimens showing every stage of development from buds to what is 
believed to be mature fruit. 
EBENACE2E. 
DIOSPYROS Linn. 
Diospyros pauciflorus sp. nov. 
Arbor; floribus ignotis; fructibus solitariis vel rarius binis, fere ses- 
silibus, globoso-ovoideis, 4 cm diametro, 4- vel 5-locularibus, loculis dis- 
permis, seminibus testa atra obtectis, albumine non ruminato; foliis 
alternis, petiolatis, olivaceis, coriac-eis, lanceolatis vel anguste oblongis. 
Fruits somewhat fleshy, glabrous, brownish or blackish when <jlry, 
ovoid-globose, 4 cm in diameter, solitary or rarely paired, almost sessile, 
probably originally axillary ; the fruiting calyx 4-lobed, coriaceous, ferru- 
ginous-pubescent without, 1.4 cm long, divided for nearly half its length 
into 4 orbicular-ovate lobes with strongly revolute margins, forming a 
broad channel on their under side all the way to the nearly acute apex; 
fruits 4- or 5-celled, each cell containing 2 collateral seeds; the seeds 
oblong in outline, oblanceolate in section, 2.1 cm long, tapering to a 
rounded apex, the testa black, the albumen not ruminate. 
A tree 12 m in height, with a trunk 12.5 cm in diameter, the smaller 
branches covered with blackish bark, that of the ultimate ones dark- 
gray to brown, glabrous, striate; leaves alternate, borne on rough chan- 
neled petioles 1-1.2 cm long and 2-3 mm in diameter, the lamina 
glabrous, entire, olivaceou s, shining on the upper surface, narrowly oblong 
or lanceolate, 13-26 cm long, 4-5 cm wide, acute and somewhat decurrent 
at the base, at the apex tapering to an obtuse acumen 2 cm long ; primary 
lateral veins on each side of the midrib 15-17, forming a vein about 5-8 
