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A tree about 20 m high, glabrous except the deciduous stipules 
and the sparingly villous inflorescence. Branches terete, brown, 
the ultimate ones about 5 mm in diameter, scars obscure. Leaves 
elliptic or oblong-elliptic, coriaceous, about 20 cm long, 10 cm 
wide, base subacute to obscurely rounded, apex abruptly and 
prominently acuminate, the acumen about 1 cm long, margins 
coarsely crenate-serrate; lateral nerves about 16 on each side of 
the midrib, very prominent on the lower surface, the reticula- 
tions very fine, faint, obsolete on the upper surface; petioles 
about 3.5 cm long, those of young leaves margined by the 5 mm 
wide stipules throughout their length, the stipules sparingly 
villous with long hairs, deciduous. Inflorescence cauline, about 
12 ecm long, stout, sparingly branched, somewhat villous with 
scattered, long hairs especially at the nodes, the branches 3 to 5 
mm in diameter, short, few-flowered. Flowers white. Sepals 
subcoriaceous, elliptic, concave, about 1.5 cm long, persistent and 
enveloping the young fruit. Petals obovate, 3 to 3.5 cm long. 
Stamens indefinite, the outer ones very numerous, erect, about 
5 mm long, pale-yellowish when dry, the inner row about twice 
as long, curved over the outer ones, purplish or reddish when dry. 
Carpels 9, the styles spreading, about 6 mm long, the carpels 
loosely arranged, cohering at the axils, slightly spiral, the very 
young seeds with no indication of an aril. 
SAMAR, Yabong, in damp forests, Phil. Pl. 1695 Ramos (type), April, 
1914 Cuming 1726. Leyte, Wenzel 984, July, 1914. 
A species well characterized by its cauline inflorescence. Its leaves 
much resemble those of some forms of Dillenia philippinensis Rolfe, but 
its cauline inflorescence, and details of the flowers and fruits are entirely 
different. 
DILLENIA FISCHERI sp. nov. § Wormia. 
Arbor circiter 20 alta, inflorescentiis exceptis glabra; foliis 
coriaceis, oblongo-ellipticis, usque ad 11 cm longis, basi acutis 
ad rotundatis, apice rotundatis, margine integris vel obscure un- 
dulatis, nervis utrinque circiter 8; inflorescentiis terminalibus 
axillaribusque, paniculatis, paucifloris; floribus albis, circiter 6 
em diametro, sepalis extus pubescentibus, staminibus aequalibus, 
carpellis 4 ad 6. 
A tree about 20 m high, glabrous except the inflorescence. 
Branches rather slender, terete, grayish, the younger ones red- 
dish-brown. Leaves coriaceous, pale when dry, shining, oblong- 
elliptic or elliptic, 6 to 11 cm long, 2.5 to 5.5 cm wide, entire 
or very obscurely undulate, apex rounded, base acute to some- 
what rounded; lateral nerves about 9 on each side of the midrib, 
prominent, curved-ascending, the reticulations distinct; petioles 
