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PHILIPPINE PLANTS, IX. 319 
ALANGIACEAE. 
ALANGIUM Lam. 
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ALANGIUM BRACHYANTHUM sp. nov. § Eualangium. 
Arbor circiter 7 m alta; floribus in ramis defoliatis, axillaribus, 
fasciculatis, brevissime pedicellatis, petalis 6, 1.5 cm longis, 
pubescentibus ; staminibus 15, basi vix curv^ato-geniculatis. 
A tree about 7 m high. Branches and branchlets light-gray 
or somewhat reddish, slender, glabrous. Flowers yellowish- 
white, very fragrant, numerous, appearing before the leaves, 
axillary, fasciculate, several at each node, the fascicles rather 
congested; pedicels very short, pubescent. Calyx 2 mm long, 
3 mm in diameter, pubescent, obscurely 6-toothed. Petals 6, 1.5 
cm long, about 1 mm wide, appressed-pubescent externally. 
Stamens 15; filaments slender, 7 to 8 mm long, not inflexed or 
geniculate at the base, somewhat villous at about the middle; 
anthers 6 to 7 mm long; style as long as the petals; stigma 
globose. 
Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Pagsalam, For. Bui\ lOSIfl Cur- 
ran, April 9, 1908, in beach forests, altitude about 5 m, locally 
known as malatapay. 
I have refrained from describing the leaves of this apparently very dis- 
tinct species, as Mr. Curran notes that they were picked up on the ground 
from under the tree, there being no leaves on the tree at the time it was 
found in flower. The species is manifestly allied to Alangium salviifolium 
(L. f.) Wangerin, but differs remarkably in its much smaller flowers and in 
its fewer stamens. The detached leaves with the specimen, which however 
may belong to a different plant, are penninerved, not at all 3-nerved from 
the base. 
ALANGIUM LONGIFLORUM sp. nov. § Eualangium. 
Species A. salviifolio (L.) Wangerin affinis, differt floribus 
5-meris, multo longioribus, staminibus paucioribus, 16 vel 17, 
petalis usque ad 4.5 cm longis. 
A deciduous tree 7 to 10 m high. Branches terete, grayish- 
brown, glabrous, the ultimate ones softly pubescent with short, 
pale-brown or olivaceous hairs. Leaves appearing after the 
flowers, oblong to obovate-oblong, membranaceous or chartaceous, 
ultimately glabrous on both surfaces, when young slightly 
pubescent on the nerves beneath, 10 to 15 cm long, 4 to 7 cm 
wide, entire, equilateral, the base rather abruptly rounded or 
obtuse, distinctly S-nei-ied, the apex prominently acuminate; 
lateral nerves above the basal pair 4 or 5 on each side of the 
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