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An erect shrub, about 2.5 m high, the inflorescences cinereous- 
pubescent, the leafiets with few, scattered, somewhat tufted 
cilia on the midrib beneath, the ultimate branches about 8 mm 
in diameter. Leaves bipinnate, about 60 cm long, the pinnae 
few, the lower ones usually 5-foliolate; leaflets chartaceous, el- 
liptic to oblong-elliptic, 12 to 22 cm long, 6 to 10 cm wide, the 
base usually broadly rounded, the apex rather abruptly acumi- 
nate, the acumen slender, blunt, 1 to 1.5 cm long, margins dis- 
tinctly toothed; lateral nerves prominent, about 12 on each side 
of the midrib, the reticulations distinct; petiolules 5 to 15 mm 
long. Inflorescences lax, branched from near the base, up to 
20 cm long and as wide as or somewhat wider than long, the 
branches few, spreading. Flowers 5-merous, numerous, white 
or somewhat yellowish, sessile or subsessile and somewhat 
crowded at the tips of the ultimate branchlets, about 5.56 mm 
long. Calyx cup-shaped, 2.5 mm long, 5-lobed, the lobes broadly 
ovate, about 1 mm in length, glabrous. Petals oblong, 3 mm 
long, obtuse to acute, recurved. Anthers 1.2 mm long. Fruits 
depressed-globose, red when fresh, dark brown when dry, 6 to 8 
mm in diameter, obscurely 5- or 6-sulcate when dry. 
MINDANAO, Surigao Province, Bur. Sci. 34550 Ramos & Pas- 
casio. SIARGAO, Bur. Sci. 34945 (type), 34907 Ramos & Pas- 
casio, May 27, 1919, in thickets and forests at low altitudes. 
This species in general appearance is not radically different 
from Leea indica (Burm. f.) Merr. and several other species 
allied to the latter. The scattered ciliate hairs on the midrib be- 
neath are a distinguishing character. 
STERCULIACEAE 
STERCULIA Linnaeus 
STERCULIA GLABRIFOLIA sp. nov. 
Arbor glabra, vel ramulis junioribus leviter pubescens, ramis 
circiter 5 mm diametro; foliis subcoriaceis, oblongis ad oblongo- 
ellipticis, integris, 8 ad 22 cm longis, breviter obtuse acuminatis, 
basi late rotundatis et distincte cordatis, nervis utrinque 8 ad 
12, perspicuis; petiolo 4 ad 7 cm longo; inflorescentiis ¢ solita- 
riis, glabris, axillaribus, anguste paniculatis, circiter 12 cm 
longis, paucifloris; floribus 4-meris, extus glabris, intus dense 
villosis, alabastro 7 ad 8 mm longo, lobis acutis, liberis. 
A tree, about 5 m high, entirely glabrous except the very young 
tips of the branchlets and the inside of the calyx. Branches te- 
