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culate, imbricate, about 4 mm long. Ovary ovoid, pubescent, 
1-celled, with a single ovule pendulous from near the apex, 
tapering into the short style; style trifid, sometimes bifid; stigmas 
capitate; rudimentary stamens 4, inserted outside of the disk, 
the filaments 1 mm long, the anthers as long as the filaments. 
Male flowers not seen. Fruit densely villous, about 2 cm long, 
the accrescent calyx-tube about 2.5 cm in diameter, 1.5 cm long, 
the lobes when young reddish or reddish-brown, when mature 
brown, narrowly oblong, rounded, up to 10 cm long, 1 to 1.2 cm 
wide. 
Cebu, Buacao, Bur, ScL 11109 Ramos, March 19, 1912 (type), with 
leaves, immature fruits, and female flowers. TiCAO, For. Bur. 12530 , 125^0 
Rosenbluth, December, 1908, sterile specimens. Masbate, For. Bur. 21030 
Darling J May, 1910, sterile, Foxworthy. Negros, For. Bur, 17356 Curran, 
September, 1909, seedlings and fallen fruits. Tablas, For. Bur. 19526 Jose, 
MiNDORO, For, Bur. 9831 Merritt. 
This very characteristic species is most closely allied to Parishia insignis 
Hook. f. of Tenasserim and the Andaman Islands, and Penang, although 
quite different from that species. It is the first representative of the genus 
to be found in the Philippines. 
Rosenbluth notes that it is the most common tree species on the Island 
of Ticao, especially abundant on dry rocky hills, and that the trunk has 
a clear length seldom exceeding 15 meters. He notes also that it has 
abundant white juice in the bark and leaves. In Ticao the lumber is not 
used by the natives, but in Masbate it is used for making bancas, that is, 
dugout canoes. Mr. Elmer has noted on two of the sheets of sterile 
specimens '' Anacardiaceae fide Radlkofer, see Elmer 1216^." The inference 
is that Elmer 1216Uy a number apparently undistributed as yet, represents 
the same species. Our material shows conclusively that the plant is refer- 
able to Parishia, and the specific name is taken from its current Visayan 
name, maldbog. 
SEMECARPUS L. 
SEMECARPUS ACUMINATISSIMA sp. nov. 
Arbor parva (vel frutex?) inflorescentis exceptis glabra vel 
subglabra; foliis anguste oblongo-ellipticis ad oblongo-oblanceo- 
latis, chartaceis vel subcoriaceis, usque ad 20 cm longis, basi 
angustatis, acutis, apice subcaudato-acuminatis, subtus pallidio- 
ribus baud glaucescentibus, nervis prominentibus, utrinque 
circiter 16; paniculis terminalibus, brevibus, angustis, quam 
folia multo brevioribus, parce pubescentibus vel puberulis, 
floribus masculinis parvis, 5-meris, 
A small tree or a shrub, except the inflorescence nearly gla- 
brous. Branches terete, slender, grayish. Leaves oblong- 
elliptic to oblong-oblanceolate or narrowly oblong-ovate, 13 to 
20 cm long, 4.5 to 6 cm wide, chartaceous or subcoriaceous, 
narrowed from about the middle or below to the acute base, 
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