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lamil, June 8, 1914, on slopes in forests, altitude about 60 meters, locally 
known as sandalo. 
A very characteristic species, recognizable by its large, many flowered, 
dark-brown lepidote panicles, its long leaves with numerous nearly or 
quite glabrous leaflets, its subspicate but densely arranged flowers, and 
by the staminal tubes being rounded and contracted to a minute orifice. 
It belongs in the group with Aglaia glabriflora Hiern, according to the 
classification of C. DeCandolle, but is very different from the species 
placed here. 
AGLAIA LAGUNENSIS sp. nov. § Hearnia. 
Arbor parva partibus junioribus inflorescentiisque exceptis 
glabra; foliis circiter 30 cm longis, foliolis 6 vel 7, crasse char- 
taceis vel subcoriaceis, oblongis ad oblongo-obovatis, usque ad 
18 em longis, acuminatis, utrinque glabris, nervis utrinque cir- 
citer 10; paniculis axillaribus, pyramidatis, quam folia paulo 
brevioribus, lepidotis, multifloris; floribus in ramulis ultimis 
racemose dispositis, tubus stamineus liber, crenulatus. 
A tree about 8 m high, the younger parts and the inflorescence 
lepidote, otherwise glabrous. Branches terete, the ultimate ones 
2 to 3 mm in diameter and rather densely lepidote with small, 
pale-brownish scales. Leaves about 30 cm long, the rachis, 
petioles and petiolules pale brownish-lepidote. Leaflets 6 or 7, 
firmly chartaceous to subcoriaceous, oblong to oblong-obovate, 
or the lower ones broadly ovate, acuminate, rather pale when 
dry, slightly shining, glabrous on both surfaces, the lower sur- 
face a little paler than the upper, the base acute to rounded; 
lateral nerves about 10 on each side of the midrib; petiolules 
5 to 10 mm long. Panicles in the upper axils, pyramidal, many 
flowered, rather lax, up to 25 cm in length, the branches spread- 
ing, rather slender, the lower ones sometimes up to 20 cm in 
length, all parts rather densely lepidote with pale-brownish, 
small scales. Flowers small, yellow, racemosely and laxly dis- 
posed on the ultimate branchlets, the pedicels slender, up to 2 
mm in length. Calyx about 1.5 mm in diameter, 5-toothed, lepi- 
dote. Petals 5, glabrous, free, obovate to oblong-obovate, obtuse, 
about 1.5 mm long. Staminal tube turbinate, glabrous, shallow, 
about 1.5 mm in diameter, the margins crenulate, bearing 5, 
somewhat infiexed, broadly ovate, sessile, 0.8 mm long anthers 
on the very margin. Fruits subglobose to ovoid, when dry 2 to 
2.5 em long, brown, glabrous, the fleshy pulp surrounding the 
seeds edible. 
Luzon, Province of Laguna, Mount Maquiling, For. Bur. 20497, 20586 
Villamil, September, 1913, in forests, altitude about 225 meters, For. Bur. 
10324 Florentino, August, 1912 (type). 
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