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XII, C, 5 Merrill: New Philippine Shrubs and Trees ae 
with a few irregular teeth, 6 to 12 cm long, 1 to 2 cm wide, 
narrowed upward to the slenderly acuminate apex, the base 
acute; petiolules 5 mm long or less; lateral nerves 7 to 10 on 
each side of the midrib, slender, anastomosing, not prominent. 
Infructescences about as long as the leaves, slender, axillary, 
solitary, the peduncular portion 10 to 15 cm long. Fruits race- 
mosely disposed, few, their pedicels 1 to 1.5 cm long, the fruits 
oblong-ovoid, about 12 cm long, pale, somewhat bicarinate, about 
12 mm long, laxly but prominently reticulate, base rounded, 
apex somewhat acuminate. 
Luzon, Benguet Subprovince, Baguio, For. Bur. 26396 Oteyza & Garcia 
(type), November 11, 1916, For. Bur. 22903 Leano, July 9, 1914, both from 
thickets along small streams, altitude about 1,500 meters, the type from 
Forbes Park, Leafio’s specimen from the barrio of Lucban. 
A species well characterized by its few, very narrow, entire, distant 
leaflets, and its slender, greatly elongated infructescences. Its alliance is 
with Brucea mollis Wall., and with the Philippine forms described as B. 
luzoniensis Vid. and B. membranacea Merr. 
SABIACEAE 
MELIOSMA Blume 
MELIOSMA BRACHYBOTRYS sp. nov. | 
Species M. sylvaticae affinis, differt foliolis majoribus, usque 
ad 15 em longis, petiolo rhachibusque glabro, paniculis multo 
brevioribus, circiter 15 cm longis, glabris vel basi plus minusve 
fefrugineo-ciliato-pilosis. 
A shrub, quite glabrous except the basal parts of the infra’ 
tescences which are more or less ciliate-pilose with ferruginous, 
deciduous hairs. Branches brown, terete, the ultimate ones 
about 7 mm in diameter. Leaves pinnate, about 40 cm long, 
the petiole and rachis glabrous, pale-brown. Leaflets usually 
13, brownish when dry, coriaceous, lanceolate to oblong-lan- 
ceolate, 10 to 18 cm long, 3.5 to 5 cm wide, the lower ones often 
falcate and more or less-inequilateral at the base, apex slenderly 
and sharply subcaudate-acuminate, base acute, margins distantly 
and minutely apiculate-toothed, especially in the upper part, 
brownish when dry; lateral nerves 7 or 8 on each side of the 
midrib, prominent, curved-ascending, anastomosing, the reticu- 
lations distinct, lax; petiolules of the lateral leaflets 5 to 14 mm 
long, of the terminal one up to 2 cm. Panicles terminal, stout, 
15 cm long or less, the rachis and short branches thick, brown, 
glabrous, or the base of the rachis more or less ciliate-pilose, the 
hairs deciduous, the branches few, 5 cm long or less. Fruits 
