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PTEROCARPUS Linn. 

 Pterocarpus klemmei Merrill sp. nov. 



A Large tree with glabrous shining leaves, terminal panicles and yel- 

 low flowers, the pods densely dark In-own velvety pubescent when young 

 and with many short soft spine-like processes in the central portion. 

 Branches Lenticellate, glabrous. Leaves alternate, about 20 cm. long, 

 the rhachis slightly and sparingly pubescent with very short hairs: 

 leaflets alternate, about 10, thinly coriaceous or submembranous, ovate to 

 oblong-ovate, acuminate, the base broad, rounded. 5 to *i cm. long, •'> to 1 

 cm. wide, glabrous and shining on both surfaces; nerves about 8 on each 

 side of the midrib, the reticulations close, distinct ; petiolules 2 to 3 nun. 

 Long. Panicles about 20 cm. Long. Flowers yellow, about 1.5 cm. Long. 

 Calyx ahoid !) mm. long, the Lobes short, acute or acuminate, pubescent 

 with few scattered short hairs. Pods (immature) oblong-ovate, about 



cm. long, thin, the stipe short, the pedicel about 1 cm. Long, the 

 periphery of the pod from stipe to style nearly straight or slightly 

 convex, the style subulate, both surfaces densely dark brown velvety 

 pubescent, shining, the wings without spine-like processes, hut the pod 

 proper with numerous soft spine-like processes v mm. Long or less. 



Luzon, Province of Cagayan, Palanan ( 4275 11'. Klemme) June, 1906. 



A species in vegetative and floral characters resembling Pterocarpus indioua 



Willi!., and I', cchinalus I'ers., differing from both in its densely velvety young 

 pods, from the former in having soft, spine-like processes on the pods and from 



the latter in havil)g fewer and shorter, soft, spine-like processes instead of 

 numerous still' spines. The fourth species of the genus to be found in the Phil- 

 ippines, possibly a fifth being represented by No. 1002 Clark, Masbate, this 

 specimen having densely velvety young pods without spine-like processes. 



SINDORA Miq. 



Sindora supa Merrill ap, nov. S.indora wallichii var. intermedia F.-Vill. (non 

 Bak. ) Nov. App. (1880) 71. Sindora wallichii Vidal (non Benth.) Sinopsis, 

 Atlas (1883) 24. I. '/.?. /'. C; Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 118; Ceron Cat, 

 PI. Herb. (1892) 70; Ahern Import. Philip. Woods (1001) SO. 



A tree reaching a height of '-i"> m. and a diameter of 1 1" cm. with 

 equally pinnate leaves, coriaceous glabrous Leaflets and densely pubescent 

 calyx lobes which have a few straight or curved spines on the upper half. 

 Branches ami hranchlets glabrous. Leaves with a glabrous rhachis (> to 



1 cm. Long; stipules foliaceous. 1 em. Long, acute, the base rounded or 

 auriculate, glabrous or nearly so: leaflets 2, or mostly 3-jugate, the lower 

 pair somewhat smaller than those above, oblong-ovate, 5 to 8 cm. long, 

 ■^..'t to -1 cm. wide, very coriaceous, entirely glabrous or with few scattered 

 hairs on the tinder surface, especially on the midrib, the apex rounded, 

 the base acute: nerves numerous, close, faint: petiolules I mm. Long, 

 glabrous. Flowers in rather dense axillary and terminal panicles 10 to 

 15 cm. long, the rhachis densely pubescenl : bracts 1 mm. long, acute 1 , 

 puhescenl : pedicels 2 nun. long, each with two lanceolate acute pubescent 



