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8 to 10 mm long, the anthers opening by terminal pores. Car- 
pels 5, slightly hirsute, 7 mm long, oblong, subcylindric; styles 
5, about 1 cm long; ovules about 16, 2-seriate. Fruit not seen. 
PALAWAN, Taytay, Merrill 9237 (type), flowering from April 10 to June 
and probably later, 1913; Malampaya Bay, Bur. Sci. 21555 Escritor, August, 
1913, For. Bur. 4518 Curran, June 21, 1913. DUMARAN, Bur. Sci. 21642 
Escritor, August, 1918. CuLION, Bur. Sci. 15647 Féniz, July 11, 1913. 
This species is common at low altitudes in northern Palawan, growing 
P in thin, second growth forests, and in and along the borders of open cogo- 
a nales, that is, areas occupied by the cogon or lalang grass (Imperata cylin- 
rr drica). It is, perhaps, most closely allied to the Malayan Dillenia pulchella 
(Jack) Gilg, and among the Philippine species to Dillenia sibuyanensis 
(Elm.) (Wormia sibuyanensis Elm.). Its solitary flowers, together with 
a its somewhat decurrent laminae and its few carpels are striking differential 
FS characters. 
¥ LECYTHIDACEAE 
BARRINGTONIA Forster 
. BARRINGTONIA PTERITA sp. nov. 
BS Arbor parva, glabra; foliis ad apices ramulorum plus minusve 
confertis, oblanceolatis, sessilibus vel subsessilibus, usque ad 40 
5s cm longis, acuminatis, basi sensim angustatis; racemis circiter 
70 cm longis, pendulis; fructibus oblongis, 6 cm longis, longi- 
tudinaliter 4-alatis. 
A small glabrous tree, 10 m high fide Ramos. Branches terete, 
the ultimate ones about 6 mm in diameter, above with rather 
prominent petiolar scars. Leaves somewhat crowded at the ends 
of the branchlets, oblanceolate, 20 to 40 cm long, 4 to 8 cm 
wide, entire, rather pale when dry, somewhat shining, charta- 
ceous, the apex rather sharply acuminate, gradually narrowed 
from above the middle to the base, the base 1 cm wide or less, 
then abruptly acute or rounded, the petiole none, or stout and 
4 mm long or less; lateral nerves about 20 on each side of the 
a midrib, rather prominent on the lower surface. Racemes pend- 
% ulous, about 70 cm long, the flowers unknown. Fruit oblong 
e or narrowly oblong, 6 cm long, 1.5 to 2.5 em wide, the base acute 
the pedicels about 1 cm long, the persistent sepals crowning the 
apex about 1 cm in length, the four angles longitudinally winged, 
the wings subcoriaceous, about 5 mm wide. 
Luzon, Province of Laguna, Dahican River back of San Antonio, Bur. 
Sci. 15121 Ramos, June, 1912. 
A species manifestly allied to Barringtonia racemosa Blume, but at once 
distinguishable by its prominently longitudinally 4-winged fruits, in this 
character differing from all the previously known Philippine species. Elmer 
a 9168 from Lucban, Tayabas Province, is undoubtedly a small leaved form 
of the same species; it was distributed as Barringtonia racemosa Blume. 
