THE PHILIPPINE JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, C. BOTANY. 
Vol. IX, No. 6, November, 1914. 
MELIACEAE NOVAE 
By E. D. MERRILL’ 
(From the Botanical Section ‘of the Biological Laboratory, 
Bureau of Science, Manila, P. I.) 
The present contribution consists of the description of seven 
new species of Aglaia and four new species of Dysoxylum, all 
Philippine, including a note on the identity of Melia iloilo Blanco. 
In this family, as in many others, current collections, especially 
those from previously little known parts of the Philippines, 
consistently present new forms, especially in the two genera 
mentioned above. In both genera a number of apparently un- 
described forms, with fruit only, still remain to be considered 
at a later date when flowering specimens shall have been col- 
lected. It is confidently expected that future botanical explora- 
tion will greatly increase the number of species not only in Aglaia 
and Dysoxvylum, but in several other genera of this family as well. 
AGLAIA Loureiro 
AGLAIA ACUMINATA sp. nov. § Huaglaia. 
Arbor 10 ad 15 m alta, partibus junioribus petiolis inflores- 
centiisque dense adpresse brunneo-lepidotis; foliis alternis, cir- 
citer 30 cm longis, foliolis 9 ad 11, valde inaequilateralibus, 
lanceolatis vel oblongo-lanceolatis, sursum angustatis, longe 
acuminatis, basi acutis vel acuminatis, junioribus dense lepidotis, 
vetustioribus glaberrimis, usque ad 10 cm longis, nervis utrinque 
circiter 10, obscuris; paniculis axillaribus, pyramidatis, usque 
ad 16 cm longis, floribus parvis, 5-meris, sessilibus, spicatim 
dispositis, tubus stamineus liber. 
A tree 10 to 15 m high, the younger branchlets, panicles, 
very young leaves, rachis and petioles densely appressed brown- 
or cupreous-lepidote, the scales minute, not at all ciliate, the 
mature leaflets entirely glabrous. Leaves alternate, 25 to 30 
em long, the rachis and petioles ultimately glabrous; leaflets 9 
_to 11, alternate, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, very inequi- 
lateral, 6 to 11 cm long, 2 to 3 cm wide, subcoriaceous, oliva- 
? Associate Professor of Botany, University of the Philippines. 
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