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182 MERRILL. 
cent, especially on the nerves, or the upper surface pubescent only on 
the midrib; nerves about 8 on each side of the midrib; petiolules densely 
pubescent, about 2 mm long. Panicles terminal, narrowly pyramidal, 
about 20 em long, the rachis, branches and branchlets densely and softly 
pubescent with pale spreading hairs, the lower branches 7 cm long or 
less, the upper ones gradually shorter, spreading or ascending. Flowers 
5-merous, sessile or shortly pedicelled, subglomerate on the ultimate 
branchlets, the buds globose or obovoid. Sepals broadly ovate, 1.2 mm 
long, free, densely pubescent outside. Petals elliptic or broadly elliptic- 
oblong, concave, about 4 mm long, 2.5 mm wide, acute at both ends, 
imbricate, with few, rather large glands, the back in the upper third 
slightly ‘pubescent. Stamens 10, the filaments broad, abruptly narrowed 
just below the insertion of the anthers, about 1 mm long; anthers 2 mm 
long. Ovary ovoid or ellipsoid, about 1.5 mm long, glabrous, prominently 
5-suleate, 5-celled, each cell with two superimposed ovules; style 1 mm 
long and thick, 5-suleate. Fruit globose, white or greenish-white, 6 to 
7 mm in diameter, the pericarp rather thick, glandular-punctate, con- 
taining a single somewhat compressed seed about 5 mm in diameter, 
surrounded by a gelatinous pulp, with a strong odor and taste of pine 
pitch; cotyledons flat, plano-convex. 
Luzon, District of Bontoe, near Bontoc, For. Bur. 16530 Curran (type), Jan- 
uary 21, 1909, altitude above 1,000 m: Province of Benguet, Twin Peaks, Elmer 
6352, May, 1904. Bur. Sci. 7863 Ramos from Cagayan Province, Luzon, with 
immature fruits, is possibly referable here, while a specimen from Zamboanga, 
Mindanao, Hallier s. n., has much the facies of the present species, but has 
4-merous flowers and 2-seeded fruits. Clausena mollis is well characterized by its 
soft, rather dense pubescence. 
MELICOPE Forst. 
Melicope densiflora sp. nov. 
Arbuscula glabra 3 ad 5 m alta; foliis trifoliolatis, foliolis chartaceis ~ 
vel submembranaceis, oblongo-obovatis, apice late breviter acuminatis, 
‘acuminibus retusis, nervis utrinque circiter 8; inflorescentiis axillaribus, 
petiolo aequalibus vel longioribus; floribus 4-meris, filamentis pilosis. 
A shrub 3 to 5 m high, glabrous throughout. Branches terete, light- 
gray, the branchlets pale-reddish-brown, rather stout. Leaves 3-foliolate, 
opposite, their petioles 2 to 5 em long; leaflets oblong-obovate to elliptic- 
obovate, chartaceous or submaembranaceous, somewhat shining, 7 to 11 
em long, 3 to 5 em wide, the apex shortlysand broadly acuminate, the 
acumen retuse, narrowed from about the middle to the cuneate base, the 
terminal leaflet equilateral, the lateral ones somewhat inequilateral ; 
petioles 3 to 10 mm long; lateral nerves about 8 on each side of the 
midrib, anastomosing, the secondary ones often nearly as prominent. 
Inflorescence axillary, solitary, 5 to 6 cm long, narrowly pyramidal, the 
lower branches often 3.5 cm in length, rather densely flowered. Stamin- 
