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ceous, shining, gradually narrowed upward to the long acuminate 
apex, the acumen blunt, the base acute to somewhat acuminate; 
lateral nerves about 10 on each side of the midrib, very obscure, 
the reticulations obsolete or nearly so. Panicles axillary, pyra- 
midal, up to 16 cm long, branched from near the base, the 
branches few, spreading, the lower ones up to 9 cm in length, 
the flowers small, 5-merous, sessile, spicately disposed on the 
ultimate branchlets. Calyx densely cupreous-lepidote, in bud 
about 1 mm long. Petals 5, glabrous. Staminal tube (in young 
buds) about 0.5 mm long, entirely free, truncate; stamens 5, 
included. 
PALAWAN, Taytay, Merrill 9306, May 31, 1913, at the borders of the 
forest by a small spring, altitude about 15 m. 
A species well characterized by its cupreous, or brown, appressed lepidote 
scales, its glabrous leaflets which are narrowed upward to the long acu- 
minate apex, the nerves obscure and the reticulations obsolete or nearly 
so. It falls in the group with Aglaia glabriflora Hiern, according to C. 
DeCandolle’s classification. 
AGLAIA ALTERNIFOLIOLA sp. nov. § Huaglaia. 
Arbor circiter 15 m alta, partibus junioribus inflorescen- 
tiisque adpresse lepidotis exceptis glabra; foliis alternis, usque 
ad 50 cm longis, foliolis alternis, distantibus, utrinque 5 vel 6, 
oblongis, subcoriaceis, usque ad 20 cm longis, utrinque glaber- 
rimis, breviter acuminatis, basi acutis ad subtruncato-rotundatis, 
nervis utrinque circiter 11; paniculis axillaribus, usque ad 30 cm 
longis, pauciramosis, ramis distantibus, laxifloris; floribus race- 
mose dispositis, pedicellatis, 5-meris, tubus stamineus liber. 
A tree about 15 m high, the younger parts and the inflores- 
cence rather densely appressed-lepidote with brownish scales. 
Branches brown, rugose, terete, those 5 to 7 mm in diameter or 
less more or less lepidote. Leaves alternate, up to 50 cm long, 
the petioles, rachis and petiolules more or less lepidote; leaflets 
5 or 6 on each side of the midrib, distant, alternate, oblong, 
subcoriaceous, entirely glabrous on both surfaces, about 20 cm 
long, 5.5 to 8 cm wide, base acute to subtruncate-rounded, apex 
shortly and rather abruptly acuminate; lateral nerves about 11 
on each side of the midrib, the reticulations slender, rather 
distinct, lax. Panicles axillary, up to 30 cm long, branched from 
near the base, the branches few, the lower ones up to 13 cm 
long, branched and floriferous in the upper one-half, lax. Flow- 
ers racemosely arranged on the ultimate branchlets, the buds 
obovoid, narrowed below to the stout jointed pedicel, the pedicels 
lepidote, 2 mm long or less. Calyx externally lepidote, 5-toothed, 
the teeth 0.5 mm long. Petals 5, in bud about 2 mm long, 
