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usually 15, ovate-elliptic, 2 to 2.5 cm long, 1 to 1.4 cm wide, pale 
when dry, glabrous, chartaceous, base rounded, apex obtuse, the 
nerves indistinct; petiolules 1 to 2 mm long, slightly pubescent. 
Racemes axillary, peduncled, about as long as the leaves, rather 
few-flowered, the pedicels slightly pubescent, about 7 mm long. 
Flowers violet, 13 mm long. Calyx cup-shaped, 8 mm long, ob- 
scurely 2-lipped, the teeth broad, short, the base rounded, inflated 
on the upper side, subglabrous. Standard 13 mm long, the claw 
elongated, the limb obovate, truncate-rounded, about 6 mm wide 
above; keel-petals with claws about 4.5 mm long, their limbs 
broadly oblong, 7 mm long, 4 mm wide, slightly falcate, apiculate 
on the outer side, rounded on the inner; wings with claws about 
5 mm long, their limbs narrowly oblong, rounded, about 9 mm 
long, 2 to 2.5 mm wide. Stamens united in the lower 2 mm. 
Ovary stipitate; ovules about 6. Fruits about 4 cm long, 
minutely pubescent, the stipe slender, curved, about 2 cm long, 
the inflated part cylindric or slightly compressed, tipped with 
a somewhat curved beak less than 1 cm in length; seeds solitary. 
Luzon, Batangas Province, on dry slopes between Bauang and Punta de 
Azufre, Bur. Sci. 26765 Ramos, October 20, 1916. 
The specimens were from flowering branches taken from old trunks or 
roots in a deserted clearing, so that the size of the plant is uncertain; it 
is probably merely a shrub or at most a small tree. It is well characterized 
by its one-seeded, rostrate-acuminate, long-stipitate pods. It is entirely 
different from the other two species found in the Philippines. 
PTEROCARPUS Linnaeus 
PTEROCARPUS PUBESCENS sp. nov. 
Arbor alta, omnibus partibus dense molliter pubescentibus, 
indumento brunneo; foliis circiter 20 cm longis, foliolis usque ad 
11, oblongis ad oblongo-ovatis, obtuse acuminatis, usque ad 7 cm 
longis, nervis utrinque circiter 9, tenuibus; fructibus suborbicu- 
laribus, 4 ad 5.5 cm diametro, brunneo-pubescentibus, medio 
tenuiter spinoso-echinatis, spinis 2 ad 4 mm longis. 
A tree variable in size, from 8 to 20 m in height, all parts 
prominently and densely pubescent with rather soft, brown 
hairs. Older branches glabrous, reddish-brown, terete, the 
younger ones densely pubescent. Leaves about 20 cm long, 
rachis, petioles, and petiolules very densely pubescent, the leaflets 
more or less pubescent on both surfaces, often densely so; leaflets 
up to 11, oblong-ovate to oblong, up to 7 cm long, 2.5 to 3.5 cm 
wide, firmly chartaceous, brownish when dry, somewhat shining, 
blunt-acuminate, or the acumen sometimes apiculate, base 
rounded; lateral nerves about 9 on each side of the midrib, 
