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tertiary veins are sometimes irregularly scurfy. Large, branched stellate 
hairs are often present on the veins, but their occurrence seems to be very 
irregular. Leaves elliptic, shortly acuminate, on long petioles ; blade 8 to 
13 cm long, 4 to 7 cm wide, petioles 3 to 4 cm long ; secondary vems 10^ to 
IG pairs, alternating with shorter intermediate veins. Tertiary veins 
parallel, joined by closely reticulate veins. Flowers in droopmg panicles ; 
'pedicels less than one-haU' the length of the calyx ea.h flower supported 
by two, oblong, somewhat unequal, 1- to 5-nerved bracteoles Anthers 
glabrous, the a.vn longer than the anther. Stylopodiuin beH-shaped 
pubescent, sometimes slightly constricted above the ovary Fruit globose 
Lt much- constricted at top, 4 to 15 mm in 'l--;^-;;;^^ '^^^f^'-^^^t 
cm long and sometimes more than 1 cm broad, with three piominent 
longitudinal veins and numerous, more or less oblique, transverse veins. 
A tree of the lowland forest, ascending to 600 to 750 m above sea 
^'It is possible that I am here retaining more than one distinct species 
under tlfe™ of A. tnnrifera; but, Mei.ill . ^olfe, 1. c., ha., suggested 
their probable identity and I am unable now deflmt.ly to Jesi^=^ 
distinctive characters for different species. It will take a good ded o^ 
field work to clear up this matter. There do seenr ^^ ^J"^ f^^^ 
types of fruit, one of which is rather large, globose, 1 to L5 ^'^^^'^^ 
wJh wings 5 to 7 cm long and more than 1 cm J™-^^' " /^^^^J '*' 
smaller globose fruit, 4 to 8 mm, and 1°"^- /"^/^^^ "^ "X be 
have not been able to discover any constant leaf f -^ ;^- J^^lnow 
that the same tree will produce both kinds of f iiut ; but we do not know 
that to be the case. , . , . ., a;finri sq 4 alahra 
Some of the Malay Peninsula material which is ff^fjl^-Z.A- 
certainly belongs to i il.urlfer. ^ Y'VteT' t^ eh o: -^ t^e 
edge of these two species, I ^^'^'fZ^^t. occur on the 
two are identical, but it is certain that .4, tMinje 
Malay Peninsula. „ ,, .^. 
This species has been found in the Philippmes - folio. ^ 
LxjzoN, Province of Cagayan For ^-^J^^' ^^.^J,, ,, „oco. Sur, For 
Norte, For. Bur. 1399S, V,00', McrrUt & Darling.^ ^^^^ _^ ^^^^^^^ Province of 
Bur. 5GItJ, Elemme, For. liur. '^^f JJ''""'^' / „ , province of Pangasinan. 
U557, 1!,558 V,621 DarHug- ^ ^^g. 
^ ilerriU, For. Bur. moj^^ ^^ ,^3^0 
Abra, For. Bur. 14517, 
For. Bur. 8287 Curran & Merritt, For. Jsur. jo^- ■ ^^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ _,^860 
ViUamil: Province of Nueva Vizcaya, For. Bur. i - ^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^ _^j. 
Darling: Province of Xueva Ecija, For. Bur. »'° ' ^ .^ xJ63 Oarcia, 
varez: Province of Tarlac, Yidal 87: Prov-uice of Zamh ^^^^.^^ ^^^. ^^^^^ 
Feb. 1903, in fruit, Merrill IVfi Garcia, April IWi, ^,^^ ^^^ ^gj j^ 
May 1903, in fruit, For. Bur. Sm Maule, Nov^ ^O*' ^^^; ^,5^7 j^g„„a: 
5877, 7016 Curran, For. Bur. SilS Curran <^^^''"!\ calophylla Perk.), W5 
Province of Bataan, Merrill 1518 (type "">"!'« ,°' .^- . ^^. ,sur. J,SS, 593 
Oarcia, Jan. 1903, in fruit, Merrill 315.',, Oct. 1903, u. fnut, 
