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 2. AVERRHOA Linn. 



1. A. bilimbi Linn.-. Book. f. 1. c. 439. 



(2737 Borden) March. In thickets and open forests below 100 m., probably 

 introduced from tropical America, widely distributed in the Philippines and the 

 Tropics generally. T.. Camias. 



RUTAOEiE. 



1. FAGARA Linn. 



1. F. integrifoliola Merrill, n. sp. § Macqueria. 



A tree 1:5 to 20 m. high, the trunks spineless, except in young plants, the 

 branches with scattered spines, the ultimate branches much thickened, 1.5 to 

 2 cm. in diameter, with tew or no short spines, pale, glabrous. Leaves 4.") to 

 C><) cm. long, glabrous, 8 to jugate, alternate, crowded toward the ends of the 

 blanches, the common petiole with very few short straight spines on the upper 

 surface in the lower part, the intemodes f> to 7 cm. long; leaflets glabrous, 

 shining, subcoriacc ous. oblong to elliptical oblong. 10 to 15 cm. long. 4 to <> 

 cm. wide, entire, strongly inequilateral at the acute base, the apex usually 

 abruptly acuminate, the acumen blunt or sharp; petiolules ti to 10 mm. long; 

 nerves 10 to 12 on each side of the midrib, not prominent, the secondary nerves 

 nearly as prominent as the primary ones, the reticulations lax. the midrib 

 spineless. Panicles in the upper axils, 15 to 2.") cm. long, glabrous or slightly 

 puberulent, rarely with very few small spines, the lower branches often 10 or 

 IT) cm. long. Flowers white, very fragrant, 4 mm. long, subsessile or their 

 pedicels 1 to 2 mm. long, subtended by 2 or :S small bractcoles. Sepals 4, glabrous, 

 suborhicular. rounded, about 1 mm. in diameter. Petals 4. glabrous, elliptical 

 or oblong, obtuse, .4 mm. long. 2 mm. wide. Stamens 4. the anthers about 1.2 mm. 

 long. Ovary glabrous. Fruit somewhat ovoid about 8 mm. long, brown or 

 black when dry. glabrous, the pericarp pitted. Seed ovoid, compressed, black 

 and shining, about ti mm. long. 



(88. 336 Barnes) November, February, fruit and flower (type) : (2351, 24S4. 

 2740 Borden) January. March; ( 2:i(>7 Meyer) December; (1044, 1295 Whitford) 

 .January, May. 



A species apparently related to Fagara rhetaa Roxb. In forests 100 to 200 m. 

 T., Ditto. 



2. F. sp. (?). 



( 1565, 3051 Borden) August. May: ( 1455 Ahern's collector) August. In forests 

 100 to 130 m.. staminate flowers and apparently deceased fruits only. T., 

 Gayetana. 



2. EVODIA Foist. 



1. E. glabra Blume; Hook. f. PI. Brit. Ind. 1 (1875) 48!). 



(2047. :S04.~> Hoyden) March. May. In forests 120 to 150 m. Malaya. 



2. E. triphylla ( Lam. ) DC. ; Hook. f. 1. c. 488. 



(2055 Borden) October; (6133 Leiberg) duly; (1474 Ahern's collector) August. 

 In forests and thickets below 200 m., widely distributed in the Philippines. 

 Malaya and Burma. 



3. E. retusa Merrill, n. sp. 



A small tree 6 to 8 m. high, nearly glabrous. Branches light gray or the 

 ultimate branchlets brown, glabrous, the terminal buds slightly pubescent. Leaves 

 opposite, trifoliate, glabrous, the petioles 3 to 4 cm. long: leaflets oblong obovate, 

 Bubcoriaceous, <> to lo cm. long. 3 to 5 cm. wide, the lateral ones somewhat inequi- 

 lateral, narrowed below to the acute base, the apex rounded or obscurely broadly 

 acuminate, retuse. often prominently so, entirely glabrous, paler beneath; nerves 



