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MERRILL. 
CELASTEACErtE. 
MICROTROPIS Wall. 
Microtropis curran ii sp. nov. 
Arbor parva, glabra, 4 ad 9 m alta; foliis coriaceis, nitidis, subtus 
pailidis, elliptico-ovatis, 4 ad 7 cm longis, breviter obtuseque acuminatis, 
basi acutis, margine revolntis ; cymis axillaribns, solitariis vel fasciculatis, 
ea. 1.5 cm longis, 3-floris; floribus 4-meris ; fructibus cylindraceis, 
elongatis, 1 ad 1.5 cm longis. 
A small tree, glabrous throughout, 4 to 9 m high, the branches and 
branchlets terete, dark-reddish-brown or nearly black when dry. Leaves 
coriaceous, shining, pale beneath, elliptical-ovate, 4 to 7 cm long, 1.5 
to 4.5 cm wide, the apex short and bluntly acuminate, the base acute, 
margins entire, revolute; nerves 5 or 6 on each side of the midrib, not 
prominent, the reticulations indistinct ; petioles 1 cm long or less. 
Cymes axillary, solitary or two or three in each axil, 1.5 cm long or 
less, the peduncles about 1 cm long, each cyme usually 3-flowered. 
Flowers 4-merous, the sepals orbicular, rounded, the two outer ones 2 
mm long, the two inner ones somewhat petaloid, 3 mm long. Corolla 
lobes 4, obovate or elliptical-obovate, rounded, about 3 mm long, united 
below. Stamens 4, attached to the corolla and alternating with its 
lobes, the filaments short, the anthers 0.5 mm long, broader than long. 
Ovary ovoid, glabrous. Fruit cylindrical, elongated, yellow when fresh, 
dark-recldish-brown when dry, short-apiculate, 1 to 1.5 cm long, about 
6 mm thick, 1-celled, dehiscent, the pericarp coriaceous. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Mount Tonglon, For. Bur. 1/966, 1/910 Curran, 
August, 1 90G ; Williams 1300, October, 1904: Province of Zambales, Mount Ta- 
pulao, For. Bur. SOU Curran d Merritt, December, 1907; Bur. Sci. 1/698, 5026 
Ramos, December, 1907. 
The first species of the genus to be found in the Philippines, about 9 species 
being previously known, extending from British India to Ceylon, Cochin China and 
Java. The species here described differs from all the others in the genus by its 
4- merous flowers. 
EUONYMUS Linn. 
Euonymus philippinensis sp. nov. 
Euonymus timorensis Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 31 (1858) 447; Lawson 
in Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 1 (1875) 610, saltern pro parte; F.-Vill. Nov. App. 
(1880) 46; Vidal Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 103; Ceron Cat. PI. Herb. (1892) 
47, non Zipp. 
Arbor parva, glabra, 3 ad 8 m alta; foliis subcoriaceis, nitidis, ellip- 
ticis, oblongo-ellipticis, vel anguste obovato-oblongis, basi acutis, apice 
acuminatis, integris vel versus apicem minute obscureque denticulatis ; 
cymis axillaribns, laxe dichotomis, diffusis, 8 ad 10 cm longis; floribus 
5- meris; sepalis petalisque fimbriatis. 
A small tree, 3 to 8 m high, the branches reddish-brown or greenish. 
