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Petals 4, oblong or oblong-ovate, about 5 mm long, 2.2 to 2.5 mm wide, 
apex acute, minutely appendaged inside. Stamens 4, the filaments stout, 
2 mm long, bearing imperfect, oblong, 1 mm long anthers. Ovary pubes- 
cent, deeply 4-lobed, 4-celled, each cell 2-ovuled; style stout, 3 mm long, 
pubescent; stigma subcapitate. Staminate flowers and fruits unknown. 
Luzon, Province of Sorsogon, Sorsogon, For. Bur. 10520 Curran, June 10, 1908, 
near abaca (Musa tewtilis) plantations, altitude about 200 m. 
A species well characterized by its abruptly acuminate leaflets, 3-foliolate and 
1-foliolate leaves occurring on the same branches, its rather small, rather long- 
peduncled cymes, and comparatively large flowers. It is apparently as closely 
allied to EHvodia glabra Bl., as to any other species, but is quite different 
from that. } 
MELIACEZ. 
AGLAIA Lour. 
Aglaia lanceolata sp. nov. § Huaglaia. 
Arbor parva vel arbuscula, ramulis foliis junioribus inflorescentiisque 
densissime brunneo-lepidotis; foliis alternis, imparipinnatis, foliolis 7% 
ad 11, anguste lanceolatis, membranaceis vel chartaceis, apice sensim 
acuminatis, basi inaequilateralibus, acutis vel acuminatis, in sicco pallidis, 
nitidis, utrinque praesertim subtus plus minus brunneo-lepidotis; pani- 
culis axillaribus terminalibusque, foliis subaequalibus vel brevioribus, 
diffusis, multifloris ; floribus minutis, 5-meris, racemose dispositis, breviter 
pedicellatis, tubo stamineo libero. 
A small tree or shrub (2 m high according to the collector), all parts 
more or less brown-lepidote, the branchlets, inflorescence and young 
leaves densely so. Branches terete, gray or brownish, ultimately gla- 
brous. Leaves alternate, 20 to 30 cm long, the rachis at first lepidote, 
ultimately glabrous or nearly so. Leaflets 7 to 11, alternate, or the 
upper ones opposite, narrowly lanceolate, 8 to 12 cm long, 1.5 to 2 em 
wide, rather pale and somewhat shining when dry, the young ones 
densely brown-lepidote on both surfaces, the mature ones ultimately nearly 
glabrous, the apex narrowly and gradually acuminate, the base inequi- 
lateral, acute or acuminate; nerves 15 to 20 on each side of the midrib, 
indistinct ; petiolules about 2 mm long. Panicles axillary and terminal, 
about 15 cm long, pyramidal, diffuse, branched from the base, all parts 
densely brown-lepidote. Flowers 5-merous, small, racemosely disposed 
on the ultimate branchlets, very numerous, their pedicels about 1 mm 
long. Calyx-lobes lepidote, rounded, 0.5 mm long. Petals glabrous, 
orbicular or orbicular-elliptic, about 1 mm long. Staminal-tube globose, 
glabrous, free from the petals, crenate at the apex; stamens 5, inserted 
at about the middle of the tube, included. 
Luzon, Province of Nueva Vizcaya, Amucucan, near Bayombong, Bur. Sci. 8141 
Ramos, May 13, 1909, in forests along streams. 
A species manifestly allied to Aglaia angustifolia (Miq.) C. DC., but abundantl y 
distinct, well characterized by its narrowly lanceolate leaves. 
