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pedicellatis, circiter 7 mm longis, petalis extus puberulis, liberis ; 

 disco cylindrico, crenato, glabro; ovario pubescente, 3-loculare. 

 A tree about 13 m high, glabrous except the minutely but 

 densely cupreous-puberulent branchlets, younger parts, and in- 

 florescences. Branches pale-brownish, about 8 mm in diameter. 

 Leaves alternate, up to 45 cm in length, the petioles, rachis, 

 petiolules, and midribs of the leaflets purplish-brown when dry; 

 leaflets about 8, alternate or subopposite, oblong, subcoriaceous, 

 brittle when dry, olivaceous, both surfaces densely and minutely 

 verruculose, 10 to 14 cm long, 4 to 5 cm wide, base prominently 

 inequilateral, decurrent-acuminate, apex rather slenderly sub- 

 caudate-acuminate; lateral nerves about 12 on each side of the 

 midrib, distinct, slightly curved, not anastomosing, the reticula- 

 tions obsolete. Inflorescences axillary, solitary, up to 18 cm long, 

 spikelike, the rachis brownish-purple when dry. Flowers 

 4-merous, white, about 7 mm long, somewhat crowded on the very 

 slightly produced nodes, their pedicels stout, 1 to 1.5 mm long. 

 Calyx slightly pubescent, broadly and shallowly 4-toothed, about 

 2 mm in diameter. Petals oblong, free, 7 mm long, 2 mm wide, 

 externally puberulent. Staminal-tube cylindric, free, glabrous, 

 crenate, 6 mm long; anthers 8, about 0.9 mm long. Disk 

 cylindric, crenate, glabrous, 2 mm long. Ovary narrowly ovoid, 

 pubescent, 3-celled ; style about 5 mm long. 



Pan ay, Capiz Province, For. Bur. 28951 Hirro, February 13, 1915, in 

 dipterocarp forests near streams at an altitude of about 400 meters, locally 

 known as balic. 



A species manifestly closely allied to Dysoxylum palawanense Merr., 

 which it greatly resembles. It is readily distinguished, however, by its 

 brownish-purple branchlets, petioles, petiolules, midribs, and inflorescences, 

 its somewhat caudate-acuminate leaflets, and its cylindric, crenate disk. 



VAVAEA Bentham 

 This genus, long considered to be a typical Polynesian one, is apparently 

 as well or even better represented in the Malayan region than in Polynesia. 



i ln?H k^ SPeC,eS " Wlde,y distributed ^ the Malay Archipelago, rep- 

 resented by numerous collections, as yet unidentified, in the Buitenzorg 

 herbarium In Java is also found Vavaea bantamensis (Koord. & Val.) 

 Koord & Merr., originally described, from fruiting specimens, as a species 

 c llr Tif ^ Ieast , e ^ ht s P ecie * "e represented in our Philippine 



V £rTJ : q pr T? 7 Usly described s P eci <* are Vavaea amicorum Benth., 



U\^Z v " /; nf apkvlla C " H - Wright ' of Fi Ji a^ the Friendly 



Islands, V. papuana F. M. Bailey, of New Guinea; V. chalmersii C. DC, of 



Wd ?Tm : TT in0ra V ° lk " ° f the Car0line Is,ands ; V- bantamensis 

 of Min^tnl A°/i ? ; . ^u V Hfi,a ° e7 ^ Elm ' and V - «rdis{oides Elm., 

 sharn v dT" H *' * ^ Phili PP ines ' tne s P^ies do not appear to be 



n^ll t : & \ m S ° me Cases «P«™en8 are found presenting inter- 

 mediate characters between rather distinct types 



