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202 MERRILL. 
ruginous-pubescent. Sepals orbicular or orbicular-ovate, rounded, pubes- 
cent externally, 5 mm in diameter. Petals glabrous, elliptic-oblong, 
glabrous, obtuse, 4.5 mm long, 3 mm wide. Disk 1 mm long, the stamens 
inserted on it, included, their filaments 1 mm long; appendage to the 
connective orbicular, rounded, 1 mm in diameter, membranaceous, the 
anther-cells tipped with a narrow appendage. Ovary pubescent; style 
glabrous, 2 mm long. 
Cesu, Mount Licos, For. Bur. 6455 Everett, February, 1907, on steep rocky 
slopes, altitude 400 m. V., Maupao. 
A species very closely allied to Rinorea copelandwi Merr., differing especially 
in its nearly glabrous, very strongly acuminate leaves, fewer-flowered cymes, and 
somewhat larger flowers. 
A specimen from the Catanduanes Islands, For. Bur. 6682 Pray is probably 
referable here, differing from the type in its nearly glabrous branchlets. 
: COMBRETACE. 
TERMINALIA Linn. 
Terminalia darlingii sp. nov. § Diptera. 
Arbor subglabra circiter 10 m alta; foliis coriaceis, ad apices ramulo- 
rum densissime dispositis, anguste oblongo-obovatis, nitidis, apice abrupte 
subtruncato-rotundatis, late breviter acuminatis, basi sensim angustatis, 
nervis utrinque 12 ad 14, petiolo 1 ad 1.5 em longo; fructibus in spicis 
patulis vel reflexis dense dispositis, ellipticis, compressis, 3 cm longis, 
2-alatis. 
A tree about 10 m high, nearly glabrous throughout. Branches stout, 
the ultimate branchlets much thickened at the ends for the upper 6 to 8 
em and there up to 1.5 cm in diameter, strongly marked with the scars 
of fallen petioles. Leaves densely crowded at the apices of the branch- 
lets, coriaceous, yellowish-brown and shining when dry, glabrous, nar- 
rowly obovate-oblong, about 20 cm long, about 7 cm wide near the apex, 
the tip abruptly subtruncate-rounded and shortly, broadly acuminate, 
gradually narrowed from the upper one-fourth or one-fifth to the narrow, 
cuneate base; midrib very prominent, the lateral nerves 12 to 14 on each 
side of the midrib, prominent, anastomosing; petioles stout, slightly 
pubescent with appressed hairs, 1 to 1.5 cm long. Flowers unknown. 
Fruiting spikes in the axils of the upper leaves, 3 to 5 or more on each 
branchlet, spreading or recurved, about 15 cm long, the peduncles 5 to 7 
em long, terete. Fruits very densely disposed, elliptic, about 3 cm long, 
2 em wide, strongly compressed, flattened or rounded on one side, trian- 
gular-keeled on the other, surrounded by a thin, straw-colored wing nearly 
1 em wide, rounded or acute at.the base, apex more or less retuse. 
Luzon, Province of Camarines, Mambulao, in forests, altitude about 100 
m, For. Bur, 18735 Darling, April 6, 1910. 
A very characteristic species, readily recognizable by its crowded leaves which 
are narrowly oblong-ovate and gradually narrowed from about the upper one- 
