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the style glabrous, ovary iil)orted, and a sliort, annular, glal)rons disk 
present. Fruit obovoid, indeliieeent, woody, 4 to 5 cm loiig, strongly 
rngose when dr^^, densely fuhoiis-liirsutc or tomentosc, indeliiscent, 
5-celled, each cell with a thick 3.5 cm long seed. 
:M[M)ANao, Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley, Airs, Clcmvua 725, SepLcniberH)ctob«r, 
1906, and additional material without numbers collected in January, February, 
March, April, June, and September, 1907. 
A striking genus, apparently allied to Chisochcton and Dysud-ylum, but very 
distinct from both, and so far as I am able to determine, from all others in the 
family, well characterized by its very large flowers, 5-celled ovary, 20 stamens 
which are hirsute, 20-toothed staminal tube, and 5-colIed indehiscent frnit. 
According to the collector, an erect, unbranclied, or slightly branched tree, 4 
to G m high, the trunk 5 to 10 cm in diameter, the leaves crowded at the apex 
of the trunk, the inflorescence axillary, pendulous. 
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CHISOCHETON Blume. 
Chisocheton dementis Merrill sp. nov. 
Arbor maxima^ glabra, inilorescentiis exceptis ; f oliis alternis, usque ad 
GO cm longis, 2- ad 5-jugatis; foliolis subcoriaceis, pallidis, elliptico- 
oblongis vel oblongis, 15 ad 30 cm longis, oppositis, breviter acuminatis, 
nervis utrinque ca. 10; paniculis axillaribns, foliis subaequalibus, pube- 
rulis, ramosis; fioribus ea. 15 mm longis, extus dense adpresso-hirsutis. 
A tree reaching a height of 30 m. Branches thickened^ reddish-brown, 
glabrous. Leaves 60 cm long or less, 2- to 4-jugate, the raehis produced 
and puberulent at the tip and with few undeveloped leaflets ; leaflets op- 
posite, elliptical-oblong or oblong, subcoriaceous, glatrous, pale, 15 to 30 
cm long, 7 to 10 cm wide, sometimes slightly falcate, apex short-acuminate^ 
base acute or rounded, slightly inequilateral; nerves about 10 on each 
side of the midrib, prominent beneath, the reticulations lax; petiolules 
1 cm long or less. PaJiiclcs axillary, aboiit as long as the leaves, the 
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lower brancho?j 15 cm long or less, puberulent, few-flowered. Calyx 
cup-shaped, rugose, densely pubescent, about 4 mm long and wide, trun- 
cate or obscurely toothed, the pedicels short and thick. Petals 5, linear- 
lanceolate, thiclc, about IG mm long, 2 mm wide, glabrous inside, densely 
appressed-hirsute outside, recurved in anthesis. Slaniinal tube cylin- 
drical, densely hirsute, about 12 mm long, 3 mm in diameter, cleft at 
the apex into G oblong, truncate teeth, 3.5 mm long, 1.5 mm wide. Sta- 
mens 6, alternating with the teeth of the staminal tube; anthers 3 mm 
long. Disk none or very short. Style 12 mm long, hirsute, 5-sulcate, 
gradually narrowed upwards; stigma capitate, 1 mm in diameter. 
Mindanao, Ljike Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mm. Glemciis s, n., July and Septem- 
ber, 1907. 
. A ypecies well cluuactL'rized hy its hirsute flowers and the curious prolonga- 
tion of the leuf-rachiti, with undeveloped leaflets. Resembling Chiaockcion cuming- 
ianus (C. DC.) Harms, but the flowers very ditlVrent. 
