NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VII. 277 



Letts, Palo, EJmer 7245, January, 1906, type number. 



This species was originally described by Mr. Elmer as a Ptmelodendron, but the 



presence of two seeds in each cell of the mature fruit excludes it at once from 

 that genua and all allied ones. It seems, however, to be referable to Aclephila, 

 and to be closely allied to Actephila gigontifolia Koordera oi Celebes, but the 

 latter species is described as having the leaves abruptly long -acuminate. The 

 five small calyx-segments described by Mr. Elmer arc the squamiform petals, tin- 

 sepals and petals persisting Oil the mature fruit. 



BACCAUREA Lour. 



B. lanceolata (Miq.) Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. 15- (1862) 4r,7. 

 Hedycarpus lanceolatits Miq. Fl. End. Hat. 1- (185!)) :$•">!>. 

 Palawan. San Antonio Bay, Merrill 853, February, 1903. 

 Java and Borneo. 



The above specimen has somewhat larger Leaves than the plants described by 

 Muller-Arg., but seems to be the same species. New to the Philippines. 



BLACHIA Baill. 



Blachia philippinensis sp. now 



Arbor glabra, monoica, circiter 5 m alta ; foliis attends, chartaceia rel 

 submembranaceis, oblongo-ovatis, usque ad 13 cm longis, acuminatis, basi 

 acutis vol obtusis, nervis utrinque circiter 6; floribus iimbellatis, umbellia 

 axillaribus terminalibusque ; petalia obovatis, hyalinis el glandulis aequi- 

 longis; staminibus 20, liberis; stylis revolutis. 



A glabrous monoecious tree about 5 m high. Branches slender, terete, 

 brownish, the branchlets reddish-brown. Leaves alternate, chartaceous 

 or submembranaceous, oblong-ovate, 7 to 13 em long, 2.5 to 4.5 em wide, 

 brown or greenisb when dry, sinning, the apes rather prominently 

 acuminate, the base acute or obtuse; nerves about 6 on each side of the 

 midrib, the reticulations lax: petioles 5 mm long or less, [nflorescence 

 axillary and terminal, the staminate umbels Long-peduncled, the peduncles 

 slender, 2 to 3 cm long, each bearing about 12 flowers, the pedicels about 8 

 mm long. Sepals 5, obovate to elliptic-obovate, 2 mm long, thin, obtuse, 

 imbricate. Petals 5, hyaline, obovate, 1 mm long, broadly rounded at 

 the apex or slightly retuse, not longer than the disk-glands. Slamens 

 20; filaments 2 mm long, slender: anthers obovoid, 0.3 mm long. Disk- 

 glands quadrangular, truncate. Pistillate flowers in subsessile umbels at 

 the base of the staminate inflorescence. Sepals 5, free, lanceolate, some- 

 what acuminate. 2 mm long, more or less accrescent. Ovary narrow, 

 subglabrous, 3-eelled, each cell 1-ovuled; styles three, elongated, cleft, the 

 style-arms rcvolute. 



Palawan, near Puerto Princesa, For. liur. fl28 Gurran, April, 1906. Luzon, 

 Province of Pangasinan, For. Bur. 836!) Curran d- Merritt, December. 1907: 

 Province of llocos Norte, Cape Bojeador, For. liur. 13820 Merritt tC- Burling, 

 November, 1908. 



The first representative of the genus to be found in the Philippines, and ap- 

 parently distinct from all previously described forms. 



