XI «c.e Merrill: Reliquiae Robinsonianac 279 



subliberis; tubo glabro, cylindraceo ; ovario 4-loculare, dense 

 pubescente. 



A tree about 15 m high, nearly glabrous except the cauline 

 inflorescence which is uniformly and densely brownish-pubescent 

 with short hairs. Branches glabrous, terete, the ultimate ones 

 nearly 1 cm in diameter, grayish or brownish. Leaves alternate, 

 about 70 cm long, the rachis and petiole minutely puberulent, 

 becoming quite glabrous. Leaflets about 25, the lower ones al- 

 ternate, the upper subopposite, oblong, chartaceous, olivaceous, 

 smooth, shining, glabrous or the younger ones very obscurely 

 puberulent beneath, 10 to 17 cm long, 3 to 5 cm wide, acuminate, 

 base inequilaterally rounded, sessile or subsessile ; lateral nerves 

 18 to 20 on each side of the midrib, spreading, prominent. 

 Racemes fascicled, several springing from the same tubercle on 

 the larger branches and trunk, 8 to 13 cm long, many flowered. 

 Flowers white, 4-merous, their pedicels pubescent, about 5 mm 

 long. Calyx densely pubescent, broadly ovoid-cup-shaped, 6 to 

 7 mm long, loose, the lobes ovate, 3 to 3.5 mm long, rounded. 

 Petals 4, free or nearly so, oblong, rounded, 10 to 12 mm long, 

 4 mm wide, below glabrous, the upper part on the back very 

 densely and uniformly pubescent with short brownish hairs. 

 Staminal-tube cylindric, glabrous, free, 10 to 11 mm long, cleft 

 into 8, small, oblong, 2 mm long lobes, the lobes rounded-truncate 

 and obscurely retuse, the 1 mm long anthers alternate with the 

 lobes. Disk cylindric, glabrous, truncate, 3 mm long, free. 

 Ovary free, densely pubescent, 4-celIed, the lower part of the 

 style densely hirsute, the upper part glabrous. 



Amboina, Lateri, Rel. Robins. 1994, September 5, 1913, in forests, altitude 

 about 175 meters, locally known as daun lansa utan, and tauivan. 



A strongly marked species, well characterized by its long leaves, numerous 

 subsessile leaflets, and its cauline, fascicled, simple, many-flowered racemes. 

 It belongs in the group with Dysoxylum ramiflorum Miq., D. caulostachyum 

 Miq., and allied forms, but is apparently distinct from all described species, 



DYSOXYLUM DECANDRUM (Blanco) Merr. in Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 

 27 (1905) 39. 

 Turraea decandra Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 347. 

 Dysoxylum amooroides Miq. in Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 4 (1868) 16. 



Amboina, Batoe merah, PL Rumph. Amb. 1989, August 24, 1913, in 

 ravines, altitude about 150 meters. 



The specimen is in fruit, and appears to be the form of this widely 

 distributed species indicated by Koorders & Valeton as var. jmbescens 

 K. & V. I cannot distinguish the common Philippine form, Dysoxylum 

 decandrum (Blanco) Merr., from D. amooroides Miq. and have accordingly 

 reduced the latter. 



Luzon to Java and New Guinea. 



