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or in pairs on the growing branchlets, the pedicels puberulent, 3 to 4 
mm long, each subtended by a triangular-ovate, acute or acuminate, 
puberulent, 1 mm long bracteole. Pistillate flowers (in bud), 5- or 
6-merous, the buds globose, the calyx-segments elliptic, rounded, puberu- 
lent, about 2 mm long, 1.2 mm wide, imbricate. Corolla (immature) 
nearly 3 mm long. Staminodes 1 mm long, bearing imperfect anthers. 
Ovary not compressed, subglobose, 5- or 6-celled, the stigma nearly as 
broad as the ovary, somewhat sulcate. Staminate flowers and fruits 
unknown. 
Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Mount Banajao, Bur. Sci. 2416 Fowworthy, 
March 24, 1907, altitude about 1,450 m. 
This species is apparently allied to /lex malaccensis Loesener, of the Malay 
Peninsula and Borneo, but its leaves with the lateral nerves distinctly visible 
on the upper surface, acute at the base, and its 5- or 6-celled ovaries are ap- 
parently sufficiently distinctive to warrant the description of the present form 
as new. 
It is also allied to /lew halconensis Mery., but is distinguished at once by its 
puberulent racemes. 
ICACINACEZE. 
URANDRA Thwaites. 
Urandra hallieri sp. nov. 
Arbor glabra vel subglabra, circiter 20 m alta; foliis alternis, coriaceis, 
oblongo-ellipticis vel oblongis, breviter obtuse acuminatis, in sicco pallidis, 
nitidis, nervis utringue circiter 15, tenuibus, obscuris; cymis peduncu- 
latis, axillaribus, solitariis, quam petiolus paullo longioribus, floribus 
5-meris, calyce truncato, connectivo antherarum longe barbato. 
A tree about 20 m high, glabrous, or the younger branchlets and 
inflorescence more or less puberulent. Branches terete, brownish or 
olivaceous, smooth or slightly wrinkled when dry. Leaves oblong-elliptic 
to elliptic, coriaceous, 10 to 16 cm long, 5 to 7 em wide, pale and 
somewhat shining when dry, the apex shortly and abruptly blunt-acum- 
inate, the base acute or slightly acuminate, the margins entire, often 
slightly revolute; midrib prominent, the lateral nerves about 15 on each 
side of the midrib, slender, obscure on both surfaces, the primary ones 
hardly more prominent than are the secondary ones, the reticulations 
faint on the upper surface, obsolete or subobsolete beneath; petioles 
about 2 cm long. Cymes axillary, solitary, peduncled, about 3 cm in 
diameter, the peduncles about as long as the petioles. Flowers sessile in 
fascicles of three each at the tips of the umbellately disposed primary 
branches, 4-merous. Calyx shallowly cup-shaped, slightly puberulent, 
truncate, about 2 mm long, 3 mm in diameter, slightly puberulent 
outside and on the margins, strongly wrinkled when dry. Petals 4, 
narrowly oblong, 5.5 mm long, 1.8 mm wide, valvate, near the base 
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the margins slightly coherent, the apex acute or obtuse, appendaged 
