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MINDANAO, Zamboanga District, Mount Tubuan, Bur. Sci. 
36567 Ramos & Edafo, October, 1919. In forests along streams 
at an altitude of about 200 meters; locally known as dalipa. 
A species well characterized among the Philippine forms by its 
unusually large leaves. 
THYMELAEACEAE 
AQUILARIA Lamarck 
AQUILARIA APICULATA sp. nov. 
Frutex subglaber, ramis teretibus, glabris, ramulis leviter 
pubescentibus; foliis chartaceis vel subcoriaceis, breviter petio- 
latis, oblongis, in siccitate brunneis, nitidis, 6 ad 11 cm longis, 
tenuiter acute acuminatis, basi acutis, subtus leviter pubescen- 
tibus, nervis primariis utrinque circiter 16, tenuibus; inflores- 
centibus subumbellatis vel cymosis, paucifloris, breviter pedun- 
culatis; floribus 5-meris, sursum ampliatis, vix campanulatis, 5 
mm longis, tenuiter pedicellatis, lobis orbicularibus, 2 mm longis; 
capsulis subellipsoideis, pedunculatis, circiter 1.7 cm longis; 
2-locellatis, perspicue apiculato-acuminatis, basi acutis. 
A subglabrous shrub about 3 m high, the branches brown or 
reddish brown, glabrous, the branchlets more or less appressed- 
pubescent, slender. Leaves chartaceous to subcoriaceous, oblong, 
brownish when dry, shining, 6 to 11 cm long, 2.5 to 4 cm wide, 
the apex slenderly and sharply acuminate, the base acute, the 
upper surface glabrous, the lower paler, sparingly pubescent, 
lateral nerves about 16 on each side of the midrib, slender, 
distinct; petioles about 3 mm long. Flowers subumbellate or 
somewhat cymose, yellow, the peduncles up to 8 mm long, some- 
what pubescent, the flowers few, mostly 3 to 5 on each peduncle, 
their pedicels slender, up to 7 mm long. Perianth about 5 mm 
long, somewhat widened upward and about 2.5 mm in diameter 
at the throat but scarcely campanulate, glabrous, the lobes 5, 
spreading or reflexed, very slightly pubescent, orbicular-ovate, 
rounded, 2 mm long. Anthers 10, 0.8 to 1 mm long, inserted 
immediately below and alternate with the orbicular, pubescent, 
0.8 mm long scales, which are inserted at the apex of the 
perianth tube. Ovary obovoid, 2-celled, compressed, pubescent, 
shortly stipitate. Stigma about 1 mm in diameter. Capsules 
subellipsoid, red when fresh, dark brown when dry, distinctly 
peduncled, the peduncle at least as long as the persistent perianth 
tube, 2-celled, 2-valved, about 1.7 cm long, the base acute, the 
apex distinctly apiculate-acuminate. Seeds dark brown, smooth, 
