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lateral nerves, becoming glabrous or nearly so; lateral nerves 

 8 to 10 on each side of the midrib, prominent, obscurely anas- 

 tomosing close to the margin, the reticulations subobsolete. 

 Spikes rather stout, up to 35 cm long, the rachis about 3 mm 

 in diameter, cinereous-puberulent, the upper part including the 

 rather densely arranged, sessile, yellowish-white flowers, about 

 1.5 cm in diameter. Sepals reniform-ovate, rounded, free or 

 nearly so, coriaceous, about 3 mm long and 4 mm wide, pubes- 

 cent. Petals 3, free, concave, coriaceous, rounded, about 8 mm 

 long, elliptic to elliptic-obovate. Staminal tube obovoid, about 

 6 mm long, contracted at the truncate mouth, glabrous, free. 

 Anthers 6, included, 3.4 mm long. Ovary very obscurely hir- 

 sute, 3-celled; stigma narrowly pyramidal, furrowed, acute, 

 about 2.5 mm long, glabrous. 



Luzon, Province of Sorsogon, Mount Pocdal, Bur. Set. 2S576 Ramos, 

 September 10, 1915, in damp forests. 



The alliance of this species is manifestly with APHANAMYXIS ELMERI 

 (Merr.) (Amora elmeri Merr.), from which it differs in many characters, 

 including its larger flowers, prominently pubescent sepals, and puberulent 

 inflorescences and younger parts of the plant. From Aphanamyxis perrot- 

 tetiana (C. DC.) Harms it differs notably in its smaller, much fewer 

 nerved leaflets, which are never rounded at the base. 



SABIACEAE 



MELIOSMA Blume 

 MELIOSMA VULCAN ICA sp. nov. 



Arbor circiter 10 m alta, inflorescentiis parcissime pubescen- 

 tibus exceptis glabra; foliis 1-foliolatis, subcoriaceis, oblongis 

 ad oblongo-ellipticis, longe petiolatis, usque ad 13 cm longis, 

 breviter acuminatis, basi acutis, margine integris, nervis utrin- 

 que circiter 6, subtus valde prominentibus ; paniculis termina- 

 libus et e axillis superioribus, erectis, pedunculatis, circiter 10 

 cm longis; fioribus 5-meris, petalis glabris, exterioribus late 

 ovatis ad suborbicularis, 2.3 ad 3 mm latis, interioribus oblan- 

 ceolatis, acutis. 



A tree about 10 m high, quite glabrous except the sparingly 

 pubescent inflorescence, the branches and branchlets terete. 

 Leaves simple, subcoriaceous, oblong to oblong-elliptic or some- 

 times narrowly oblong-obovate, 7 to 13 cm long, 3 to 5.5 cm 

 wide, brown and slightly shining when dry, entire, apex slightly 

 acuminate, base acute, the lower surface a little paler than the 

 upper; lateral nerves about 6 on each side of the midrib, pro- 

 minent on the lower surface, dark-brown, anastomosing, the 

 primary reticulations lax, distinct; petioles 2.5 to 3.5 cm long. 



