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about 4 cm long. Sepals 6, coriaceous, concave, broadly ovate, 
up to 4 cm long, the outer ones somewhat shorter. Petals yellow, 
broadly obovate, rounded, about 9 cm long. Stamens indefinite, 
the very numerous outer ones about 1 cm long, the fewer inner 
ones up to 3 cm in length, more or less spreading or recurved. 
Carpels about 14, the styles spreading-recurved, about 2 cm long. 
Samar, Ambalete, Bur. Sci. 17581 Ramos, April 7, 1914, in damp forests, 
said by the collector to be a tree 40 m in height, but this is probaly 
exaggerated. 
A very characteristic species on account of its unusually large, solitary, 
yellow flowers, which, in anthesis, are about 20 cm in diameter. It appar- 
ently belongs in the group designated by Blume as the genus Capellia. 
DILLENIA PAPYRACEA sp. nov. § Wormia. 
Arbor circiter 25 m alta, partibus junioribus inflorescentiis- 
que exceptis glabra; foliis subcoriaceis, oblongo-obovatis, usque 
ad 50 cm longis, sessilibus vel breviter petiolatis, basi longe angus- 
tatis, conduplicatis, apice brevissime acuminatis vel acutis, mar- 
gine undulato-dentatis, nervis utrinque circiter 20; paniculis fo- 
lia subaequantibus, paucifloris; floribus albis; carpellis circiter 
12, dehiscentibus, seminibus arillatis. 
A tree about 25 m high, glabrous except the sparingly pubes- 
cent younger parts and the inflorescence. Branches stout, dark- 
brown, terete, about 1 cm in diameter, marked with large petiolar 
scars. Leaves subcoriaceous, pale or brownish when dry, 
slightly shining, oblong-obovate, up to 50 cm long and 17 cm 
wide, apex shortly acuminate or merely acute, margins 
rather distantly undulate-dentate, base long-narrowed, sessile or 
subsessile, the lower 7 to 8 cm conduplicate, the epidermis on 
the upper surface of the folded base brown when dry, apparently 
modified as absorbent tissue; lateral nerves about 20 on each 
side of the midrib, prominent, reticulations subparallel, distinct, 
the folded narrow base clasping the stem. Panicles in the upper- 
most axils, about as long as the leaves, stout, with few branches, 
few-flowered, the flowers said to be white, sessile or subsessile. 
Petals and stamens not seen. Sepals coriaceous, externally some- 
what appressed-pubescent, coriaceous, apparently fleshy when 
fresh, obovate to oblong-obovate, rounded, concave, 5 to 5.5 cm 
long, 2.5 to 3 em wide, surrounding the young fruit. Carpels 
about 12, the styles recurved, 10 to 12 mm long; immature carpels 
united axially below, dehiscent, about 2.5 cm long; immature 
seeds brown, about 3 mm long, surrounded at the base by a loose, 
somewhat cup-shaped aril. 
BASILAN, Tongatong, Bur. Sci. 16339 Reillo, September, 1912 “flowers 
white,” in forests. MINDANAO, District of Zamboanga, Alimpagu, For. Bur. 
