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densely fulvous-tomentose. Branches up to 1 cm in diameter. 

 Leaves alternate, up to 40 cm in length ; leaflets about 8, opposite, 

 coriaceous, elliptic to oblong-elliptic, 10 to 18 cm long, 5.5 to 

 8 cm wide, pale-brownish on both surfaces when dry, base 

 rounded, somewhat inequilateral, apex abruptly and shortly 

 blunt-acuminate; lateral nerves 10 to 15 on each side of the 

 midrib, prominent on both surfaces, spreading, curved near the 

 margins, anastomosing; petiolules stout, 3 to 5 cm long, densely 

 fulvous-tomentose. Panicles in the uppermost axils, about 20 

 cm long, all parts densely tomentose, long-peduncled, narrow, 

 branched in the upper one-half, the branches spreading, 1 to 

 2 cm long, the flowers somewhat crowded and spicately arranged 

 on the primary branches. Flowers white, tinged with pink, 

 fragrant, 4-merous, about 1.8 cm long in anthesis, cylindric, 

 stout. Calyx cup-shaded, about 7 mm long and wide, truncate, 

 densely villous. Petals 4, oblong, about 1.8 cm long, 6 to 7 mm 

 wide, truncate, coriaceous, outside densely appressed fulvous- 

 villous, inside glabrous, free or nearly so. Staminal-tube cylin- 

 dric, about 15 mm long, 4 to 5 mm in diameter, densely appressed- 

 pubescent outside, retrorse-villous inside, the apex with 6, oblong, 

 truncate and slightly retuse, 2 mm long lobes. Anthers oblong, 

 alternate with the lobes, 3.5 mm long. Disk a dense ring of 

 short hairs. Ovary ovoid, pubescent, narrowed upward, the 

 style densely pubescent, much longer than the ovary, style and 

 ovary together attaining a length of about 13 mm, the upper two 

 mm of the style quite glabrous; stigma subcapitate. Fruit 

 unknown. 



Samar, Catubig River at Pinipisakan, Bur. Sci. 2U97 Ramos, March 21, 

 1916, in damp forests along the river at low altitudes. 



A most characteristic species, readily distinguished by its fulvous in- 

 dumentum and its narrow, dense panicles, the flowers spicately crowded 

 near the apices of the short primary branches of the inflorescence. It does 

 not appear to be closely allied to any previously described form. 



CHISOCHITON Blume 



CHISOCHITON CAULIFLORUS sp. nov. 



Arbor, ramulis petiolis foliolis subtus ad costa nervisque in- 

 florescentiisque plus minusve f ulvo-villosis vel subhirsutis ; foliis 

 usque ad 50 cm longis ; foliolis circiter 8, oppositis, oblongis, sub- 

 coriaceis, usque ad 22 cm longis, acuminatis, nervis utrinque 8 

 ad 15, prominentibus ; inflorescentiis 20 ad 50 cm longis, anguste 

 paniculatis, e truncis et ramis vetustioribus vel interdum e ramu- 

 lis junioribus ; floribus 4-meris, circiter 2 cm longis, calycis cupuli- 

 formibus, truncatis, 4 ad 5 mm longis, extus subdense adpresse 



