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included. Disk cylindric, truncate, about 1.5 mm high, villous. 
Ovary sparingly appressed-pubescent; style glabrous, 7 mm long. 
Fruit (immature) globose or obovoid, about 3 cm in diameter. 
Luzon, Province of Laguna, Gumihan, near San Antonio, Phil. Pl. 1404 
Ramos (type), February 27, 1913, in forests; between San Antonio and 
Paete, Bur. Sci. 15102 Ramos, June, 1912. 
A species manifestly in the group with the Malayan Dysoaxylum allia- 
ceum Blume, but differing from that and allied forms in many characters. 
The strongly shining leaves, with prominent primary nerves and entirely 
obsolete reticulations, and the densely flowered panicles are characteristic. 
The dried flowering specimens have a strong, very disagreeable odor that 
is characteristic of various parts of many species in the genus. 
TURRAEA Linnaeus 
TURRAEA MEMBRANACEA sp. nov. § Huturraea. 
Arbor parva, circiter 5 m alta; foliis membranaceis, ovatis vel 
oblongo-ovatis, utrinque angustatis, acuminatis, usque ad 9 cm 
longis, nervis utrinque circiter 7, vetustioribus glabris vel sub- 
glabris; racemis axillaribus, brevissimis, paucifloris; floribus 5- 
meris, circiter 2.5 cm longis, tubo apice 10-laciniato, ovario glabro, 
5-loculare; fructibus 5-locellatis, valvis valde recurvatis, crassis- 
sime coriaceis, 12 mm longis. 
A small tree 4 to 5 m high, deciduous, the branchlets, young 
leaves, and inflorescence more or less pubescent, in age nearly 
glabrous. Branches slender, terete, glabrous, brown or reddish- 
brown, the branchlets gray-pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate, 
membranaceous, ovate to oblong-ovate, subequally narrowed to 
the acute base and to the acuminate apex, 5 to 10 cm long, 2 to 
4 cm wide, when young slightly pubescent on both surfaces, at 
least on the midrib and nerves, in age nearly or quite glabrous, 
slightly shining; lateral nerves about 7 on each side of the midrib, 
prominent; petioles about 1 cm long, pubescent. Racemes axil- 
lary, very short, pubescent, few-flowered, the flowers appearing 
with the new leaves, the rachis of the racemes 5 mm long or 
less. Flowers yellowish-white, their pedicels slender, 2 cm long. 
Calyx cup-shaped, about 3 mm long, pubescent, 5-toothed, the 
teeth ovate-acute, about 1.5 mm long. Petals 5, free to the 
base, 2 to 2.3 cm long, linear, above somewhat narrowly spatulate, 
below 1 mm wide, near the apex 3 to 3.5 mm wide, glabrous. 
Staminal-tube glabrous, slender, 2.5 cm long, laciniate-lobed at 
the apex, the lobes thin, linear, acuminate, about 2 mm long, 
alternating with the anthers; anthers subsessile, attached appar- 
ently at the very apex of the tube, 1.8 mm long. Ovary ovoid, 
5-celled ; cells 2-ovuled; style slender, exserted 6 to 7 mm beyond 
’ the end of the staminal-tube; stigma about 2 mm in diameter. 
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