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the fruits uniformly and densely ferruginous-villous. Branches 

 terete, brownish-gray, glabrous, the branchlets rather densely 

 pale brownish- or ferruginous-pubescent, when dry obscurely 

 angled. Leaves subcoriaceous, oblong-obovate to elliptic, 8 to 15 

 cm long, 4 to 6 cm wide, apex rather abruptly and prominently 

 acuminate, the acumen up to 1 cm in length, blunt, the base 

 acute, the upper surface olivaceous, glabrous, shining when dry, 

 the lower pale, glaucous, sparingly pubescent on the midrib and 

 lateral nerves ; lateral nerves 10 to 12 on each side of the midrib, 

 very prominent on the lower surface as are the reticulations, 

 spreading, somewhat curved, uniting directly with the cartila- 

 ginous margin; petioles 1 to 1.5 cm long, pubescent. Panicles 

 terminal, narrow, densely flowered, 3 to 4 cm long, all parts very 

 densely ferruginous-villous. Flowers 5-merous. Calyx 3 mm 

 in diameter, the lobes short, ovate, obtuse, less than 1 mm long. 

 Petals 5, free, oblong, 4 mm long, 1.6 mm wide, outside densely 

 ferruginous-villous, inside glabrous, apex obtuse, base narrowed, 

 cuneate. Stamens 5 ; filaments slender, about 3 mm long. Male 

 flowers with a dense tuft of ferruginous villous hairs in the 

 center. Fruits few, usually 3 or 4 in a panicle, their peduncles 

 about 6 mm long, densely ferruginous-villous, the calyx-tube in 

 fruit about 6 mm long, ovoid-cylindric, the teeth broadly ovate, 

 rounded, about 1.5 mm long, the fruit oblique, when immature 

 about 1.6 cm long, all parts, including the accrecent calyx, 

 densely ferruginous-villous, crowned by the three, short, glabrous 

 styles. 



Samar, Catubig River, Cagmanaba, Bur. Sci. 21*51+6 Ravios, February 29, 

 1913, in forests at low altitude, locally known as matapoc. 



A characteristic species manifestly closely allied to Oncocarpus ferru- 

 gineus C. B. Rob., from which it is easily distinguished by its pubescent 

 branchlets, its fewer-nerved, somewhat smaller leaves, and its short, densely 

 flowered panicles, the young fruits obliquely ovoid or obovoid, scarcely 

 ridged. Probably referable here is Bur. Sci. 2U115 Ramos from Tagabiran, 

 Catubig River, the leaves of which are more prominently acuminate than 

 in the type, and the branchlets nearly glabrous. 



SAPINDACEAE 



ALLOPHYLUS Linnaeus 

 ALLOPHYLUS SAMARENSIS sp. nov. 



Frutex subglaber ; f oliis unif oliolatis, f oliolis firme chartaceis, 

 oblongo-ellipticis, usque ad 30 cm longis, utrinque subaequaliter 

 angustatis, basi acutis, apice prominente acuminatis, margine 

 grosse irregulariter lobato-serratis, dentibus acutis ; nervis utrin- 

 que circiter 11, subtus valde prominentibus cum costa reticulisque 



