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mm longa. Stylopodio vix constricto, 3.5 mm longo. Stylis 0.4 



mm longis. 



A large tree. Leaves glabrous or nearly so, chartaceous, 

 oblong-elliptic, 11.5 to 14.5 cm long, 5.7 to 7 cm wide; secondary 

 veins about 20 pairs, in the lower half of the leaf with a number 

 of short intermediate veins ; tertiary veins very prominent, retic- 

 ulate. Secondary veins anastomosing near the margin, which 

 is entire and slightly inrolled. Petiole 18 to 20 mm long. 

 Flower clusters paniculate, apparently terminal and erect. 

 Flowers white. Small branches of inflorescence stellate-pubes- 

 cent. Pedicels 1 to 2 mm long, slender. Flowers spreading, 

 about 1.5 cm in diameter. Calyx segments valvate, lanceolate, 

 acute, pubescent on both surfaces, 3 mm long and 2 mm wide 

 at the base. Petals oblong or obovate, 10 mm long, 6 mm wide. 

 Stamens 25 to 30, filaments short, connective with very long 

 appendage, 4 to 5 times as long as anther cells. Filaments about 

 0.3 mm long, anther cells 0.3 to 0.6 mm long, connective 2 to 

 2.5 mm long. Inner pair of anther cells much smaller than the 

 outer. Stylopodium very large, almost cylindric, somewhat con- 

 stricted just above the base and tapering at the top, about 3.5 

 mm long and 1.5 mm in diameter, deeply ridged, crowned by 

 three short, slender styles, each about 0.4 mm long. Stylopodium 

 pubescent for its whole length, very distinct in appearance from 

 that of other species examined. 



Mindanao, Zamboanga, For. Bur. 21899 Villamil, May 19, 1914 (type). 

 For. Bur. 9871 and 9 IS 5 Whitford & Hutchinson, also collected in Zam- 

 boanga Province, belong here, as does For. Bur. 23833 Villamil, collected 

 in the same neighborhood as the type in May 1914. For Bur. 25937 Cortes, 

 from Samar, June, 1916, seems also to belong here. 



3. HOPE A Roxburgh 



This genus shows a very large percentage of endemism. Of the sixty- 

 five species known in the genus, thirteen are found in the Philippines. Of 

 these but three Hopea ovalifolia Boerl., West Borneo, H. pierrei Hance, 

 and H. odorata Roxb., are known outside the Archipelago. 



Key to the Philippine species of Hopea. 



a 1 . Secondary veins few and prominent. 



b\ Leaves narrowly oblong, unilaterally unsymmetrical. 



c. 1 Leaves 10 to 15 cm long, 2.2 to 7 cm wide; calyx-wings less than 

 8 cm long. 

 <f. Stipules long, semipersistent ; calyx- wings 6 to 7.5 cm long. 



3. H. philippinensis. 

 o?. Stipules short; calyx-wings 3.5 to 4.3 cm long.. 1. H. basilanica. 

 c*. Leaves larger; calyx-wings 8 cm or more in length. 



2. H. mindanensis. 



