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centibus; filamentis basi connatis; discus nullus; ovarium rudi- 

 mentarium glabrum, breviter stipitatum; fructibus junioribus 

 anguste ovoideis, circiter 12 mm longis. 



A small tree, about 6 m high, glabrous except the younger 

 parts and the sparingly pubescent spikes. Branches slender, 

 terete, glabrous, pale-brownish, the young branchlets usually 

 densely subferrugineous-pubescent. Leaves alternate, up to 30 

 cm long, glabrous, the leaflets oblong, firmly chartaceous or 

 subcoriaceous, 12 to 20 cm long, 5 to 6 cm wide, entire, olivaceous 

 or greenish when dry, shining and of about the same color on 

 both surfaces, base acute, rarely rounded, apex rather promi- 

 nently blunt-acuminate; lateral nerves about 11 on each side of 

 the midrib, very prominent on the lower surface as are the 

 primary lax reticulations, curved, anastomosing; petiolules 1 

 to 1.5 cm long ;* stipules linear, somewhat curved, stiff, about 5 

 mm long. Inflorescence a simple, axillary, solitary spike, the 

 staminate ones 10 to 20 cm long, the pistillate ones in fruit up 

 to 30 cm in length, when young more or less appressed-pubescent, 

 in age glabrous or nearly so. Male flowers white, 3-merous, 

 about 6 mm long, scattered or fascicled along the rachis. Calyx 

 cup-shaped, 3 mm long, externally appressed-pubescent, the lobes 

 triangular, acute, at least 1 mm long. Petals 3, oblong, about 

 6 mm long, 1.2 mm wide, the apical portions sparingly pubescent, 

 imbricate. Disk none. Stamens 6, the filaments united below 

 into a 1 mm long tube, the free portions slender, 2.5 mm long; 

 anthers oblong, 2 mm long. Rudimentary ovary free, ovoid, 

 glabrous, angular, on a short stipe as long as the ovary. Im- 

 mature fruits narrowly ovoid, about 1.2 cm long, narrowed up- 

 ward, glabrous. 



Samar, Catubig River at Cagmanaba, Camaniwan, and at Palapag, Bur. 

 Set. 21*191 (type), 2hU9, S42H Ramos, Bur. Sci. 2U879 Edano, February 

 and March, 1916, along small streams and on forested slopes at low alti- 

 tudes, locally known as pangahauon. 



By definition this species falls in the section Parvifolia Engl., but does 

 not resemble the other species placed here; the disk is entirely wanting. 

 In facies it somewhat resembles Canarium thyrsoideum Perk., and C. 

 polyneuron Perk., differing however in its fewer leaflets, different inflores- 

 cences, and very different floral characters. 



CANARIUM ROBUSTUM sp. nov. 



Arbor alta, ramulis robustis, 1.5 ad 2 cm diametro, densissime 

 f errugineo-pubescentibus ; foliis usque ad 90 cm longis, promi- 

 nente hirsutis, foliolis chartaceis vel subcoriaceis, ellipticis ad 

 oblongo-ellipticis, integris, usque ad 28 cm longis, abrupte acumi- 

 natis, basi late rotundatis vel subcordatis, nervis utrinque 18 ad 



