ALABASTKA PHILIPPINENSIA, II. 185 
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2.6 cm long, the pod tlieu about 5.5 mm long and 1 mm wide borne on 
a stipe 6.5 mm long and contracted at the apex into a slender style, 
upper side of pod straight, lower side regularly curved; ovules 5, 0.5 mm 
long, oval to xhoinboid, apiculate, 
A vine with woody stems 5-6 mm in diameter, climbing into trees and 
hanging down in large masses, the bark greenish-grey, coari^'cly striate, 
somewhat angled, and with conspicuous lenticels, glabrous except the 
parts of the inflorescence stated: leaves trifoliolate, in all 25.7-26 cm 
long, petiole 8 cm to the insertion of the two lower leaflets, prolonged 
2.2-2.4 cm to the articulation with the terminal leaflet, petiolules 6;5 
mm long, the petioles, petiolules, and veins pale- straw-color, the lamina 
olive-green on the upper surface and dull green beneath, lateral leaflets 
oblong, very inequilateral, 11.5-13.3 cm long, 4-5.2 cm wide, trun- 
cate or rounded near the base, subcordate or subpeltate at tlie insertion 
of the petiolule, entire,, with 7 or 8 pairs of primary lateral veins, forming 
a submarginal vein, which though faint at points along its length is 
conspicuous in the 2 cm long obtuse muci'onate acumen : terminal leaflet 
14.5-15 cm long, 6-G.3 cm wide, lanceolate -Ovate, only slightly inequila- 
teral with 11 pairs of lateral veins: scars of fallen stipules conspicuous. 
Type collected at an elevation of 90 ni at Sax Kiver, District of Zamboanga, 
Mindanao, by R. S. Williams, no. 2362, in flower and young fruit, February 22, 
1905. The only fruiting material is in the herbarium of the New York Botanical 
Garden. 
BURSE liACE^^]. 
CANARIUM Linn. 
Canar'ium fuscum Engler in DC. Monogr. Phan. 4 (1883) 116. 
Although the original description of thia species was drawn from a plant 
with immature flowers, it is possible to identify with it \^"ith considerable con- 
fidence Williams 2181, collected at Sax River, District of Zamboanga, Mindanao, 
in fruit, February 28, Z905, and \] illiatns 2810, from Santa Cruz, District of 
Davao, ]\finfIanao, also in fruit, June 1, 1905. 
The leaves in both specimens are 3-4 jugate, and the leaflets are glanJular- 
denticulate or entire upon the same tree. The drupe, hitherto unknown, is 
surrounded by a triangular calyx rounded between the angles ami about 1.2 cm 
wide, within wliich is a thin disk 1 mm wide bearing indications of the former 
presence of six free stamens attached to its extreme xipper margin. The drupe 
itself is sessile, 2.3-2.8 em. long, 1.2 cm wide, 1-celled, 1-seeded, and crowned 
by the small capitate 3-lobed stigma; seed 1.6 cm long, 6.5 mm wide, with a 
brown testa. 
A species not hitherto reported from the Philippines. 
Canarium williamsii sp. nov. 
Arl)or; floribus cymoso-fasciculatis in rhachidibus axillaribus ferrugi- 
neo-toinontosis 30 cm longis racemose vel paniculate dispositis, triineris; 
