THE PHILIPPINE 
JOURNAL OF SCIENCE 
C. BoTANY 
VoL. IX AUGUST, 1914 No. 4 
NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, X 
By E. D. MERRILL * 
(From the Botanical Section of the Biological Laboratory, Bureau of 
Science, Manila, P. I.) 
(Concluded ) 
RUTACEAE 
ATALANTIA Correa 
ATALANTIA MARITIMA sp. nov. 
Species A. distichae (Blanco) Merr. affinis, differt foliis ellip- 
ticis haud prominente acuminatis, margine leviter crenulatis 
vix integris. 
An unarmed shrub or small tree 2 to 6 m in height, glabrous 
except the inflorescence, or the younger branchlets sometimes 
slightly pubescent. Branches terete, slender, usually reddish- 
brown when dry, the branchlets greenish or straw-colored and 
more or less angled or compressed near the nodes. Leaves 
alternate, subcoriaceous or coriaceous, elliptic to ovate-elliptic, 
shining, rather pale when dry and of nearly the same color 
on both surfaces, 5 to 10 cm long, 2.5 to 6 cm wide, subequally 
narrowed at both ends, the base acute, the apex obtuse and dis- 
tinctly retuse, not gradually narrowed to an acumen, the margins 
above distinctly but distantly crenulate, not entire, glandular- 
punctate beneath; lateral nerves very numerous, close; petioles 
6to10mm long. Panicles axillary and terminal, 3 to 6 cm long, 
pubescent, many-flowered, narrow, the lower branches 2 cm long 
or less, the panicles usually larger in fruit and up to 11 cm in 
length. Flowers 5-merous. Calyx pubescent, cup-shaped, about 
* Associate Professor of Botany, University of the Philippines, Manila, 
P. I. 
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