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nearly glabrous^ oblong-ovate, acntc or obscurely broadl}' acmninate, 4 mm 
long, 2.5 mm wide. Stamens 6, free; filaments 2 nmi long; anthers 1.2 
nun long. Ovary glabrous or nearly so. Disk wanting. Fruit oblong- 
ovoidj 1 to 1.5 cm long, 7 to 8 mm thick, glabrous, rngopc, gl'ay^ not com- 
pressed or angular. 
Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Cainj) Koitliley, Mrs. Clemcnfi s. n., February, March, 
1907, also no. 759, September, 1906, and no. 1115a, September, 1907. 
A species well cluiructerized by its paniculate iuJloresccnce, fasciculate sessile 
flowers, and its leaflets wliicli are usually strongly ferruginous beneath and densely 
pubescent or puberulent. 
SANTIRIA Blume. 
Santiria glabra Merrill sp. nov. § Euftantiria. 
Arbor, omnLbus partibiis glabratis; foliis iniparlpinnatis, 1-3-Jugatis, 
foliolis oblongo-ovatis vel oblongis, acuminatis, 6 ad 9 cm longis, nervis 
utrinque ca. 7; paniculis axillaribus, e basi ramosis; floribus minutis, 
antheris dorsifixis ; staminibus liberie, extra discuni insortis. 
A tree, glabrous throughout. Branches liglit-gray, slender^ terete. 
Leaves odd pinnate, 1- to 3-jugate, the rachis and petiole 10 cm 
long or less; leaflets oblong-ovate to oblong, subcoriaceous, shining on 
both surfaces, paler beneath, 6 to 9 cm long, 2.5 to 4 cm wide, apex 
rather long and gradually acuminate, the acumen blunt, base acute, often 
somewhat inequilateral ; nerves about 7 on each side of the midrib, some- 
what prominent beneath, anastomosing, the reticulations lax; pctiolulos 
about 1 em long, slender. Panicles axillary, solitary, 4 to 6 cm long, 
branched from the base. Flowers small. Calyx 3-lobed, lobes broadly 
triangular-ovate, acute. Petals 3, orbicular-ovate, obtuse, 2 mm wide at 
the base, about 1.7 mm long. Stamens 6, free, inserted outside the fleshy 
6-ridged disk, filaments very short; anthers 0.5 mm long. Style very 
short. 
Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens s. n., April, 1907. 
A species well cliaracterized by being glabrous throughout; the second one of 
the genua to be found in the Philippines. 
MELIACE^. 
CLEMENSIA :\lerrill gen. nov. 
Flores polygamo-dioici, 8-meri, majusculi. Calyx cupularis, grosse 
4-dentatus vel lobatus. Petala 8, in aestivatione subvalvata, spatulata, 
inferne cum tubo stamineo plus mimis connata. Stamina in tubum 
cylindrieum, laciniatum, petalis breviorem, intus sub apice 20-antheri- 
ferum coalita, antheris plus minus liirsutis, cum tubi laciniis alternan- 
tibus. Discus in floribus hermapliroditis nullus, iu floribus masculinis 
brevissime annulatus. Ovarium libenun, hirsutum, 5-loeulare, loculis 
1-ovulatis. Stylus elongatus, hirsutus, stigmate capitato terminatus. 
Fructus indehiscens, 5-locularis. Semina crassa. Cotyledones crassae, 
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