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ROBINSON. 
18. DEBREGEASIA Gaudieh. 
Debregeasia angustifolia sp. nov. 
D. longifolia Rolfe in Journ. Bot. 23 (1885) 215, et Auct. Philip., non Wedd. 
in DC. Prodr. 1 6 1 (1869) 235. 24 ^ 
Monoica vel dioica: glomerulis geminatis, pedunculatis ; perianthio 
pistillifero ovarium arete ampleetente sed haud ei adnato, ore valde con- 
tracto, brevissime dentato, sub fructu baccato achenium laxe continente : 
foliis alternis, coriaceis, auguste lanceolatis vel anguste oblongo-lanceol- 
atis ; stipulis lanceolatis vel ovatis, apiee bifurcatis, pilosis. 
More often monoecious with the staminate glomerules toward the 
apices of the branchlets : peduncles solitary or paired, up to 5 mm long, 
bracted at the base and with more or less deciduous bracteoles about 1 
mm long, pilose, usually once forked, the secondary peduncles very 
shortly forked at the apex, the glomerules therefore paired and' ap- 
proximate : staminate flowers nearly sessile, somewhat exceeding the 
triangular-ovate ciliate bracteoles ; perianth deeply 4-parted, about 1 mm 
long, the segments ovate, pilose; anthers about 0.3 mm long: pistillate 
receptacles 3 to 4 mm in their longer diameter, the pairs together up to 7 
mm in diameter; pedicels up to 1 mm long; perianth closely covering 
the ovary but easily separable from it, about 0.7 mm long, greatly con- 
tracted and minutely toothed at the apex; stigma penicillate-capitate, 
subpersistent ; fruiting perianth red, fleshy, up to 1.5 mm long, the achene 
hardly longer than the ovary and therefore loosely contained by the 
perianth. 
A shrub, 2 to 5 m high, the branchlets and younger parts of the 
branches densely white- and brown-pilose : leaves alternate, petioles 
densely pubescent, 2 to 15 mm (usually 6 to 8 mm) long, the lamina 
coriaceous, narrowly lanceolate or narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 2.5 to 13 
cm long, 8 to 24 mm wide, the base obtuse or rounded, more often 
slightly emarginate, the margins except at the extreme base • densely 
serrate, the teeth short, obtuse or acute, the apex gradually acuminate ; 
trinerved, the nerves extending about half the length of the lamina, 
with 5 to 7 additional conspicuous veins and other very short ones at 
the apex, the reticulations numerous, conspicuous on the under surface; 
upper surface rugose, sparsely or somewhat densely pilose, under pilose 
on the veins and white- or gray-tomentose between them; stipules lan- 
ceolate or ovate, 7 mm long, bicarinate, bifurcate, pilose on the forks, 
keels, between them and the margin, and sometimes also along the 
middle. 
Luzon, Province of Abra, Mount Paraga, Bur. Sci. 7106 Ramos: District of 
Lepanto, Balbalasan, For. Bur. 5695 Klemme; Balili, Merrill 1/641 ■' Province of 
Benguet, Mount Pulog, For. Bur. 18104, 18147 Curran, Merritt, & Zschokke ; 
Imogen-Nozo trail, For. Bur. 14198 Merritt; Baguio, Elmer 5922, Topping 112, 
Williams 1551 (type), Bur. Sci. 5761 Ramos, Bur. Sci. 12891 Fenix: District of 
