'284 MERRILL. 



cireiter 17, proniinentibus : inflorescentiis masculinis axillaribus vel pseud- 

 oterminalibus, elongatis, floribus in glomerulis congestis, plus minus 

 stellato-ferrugineo-pubescentibus; staminibus circiter 1*.. 



A subglabrous tree 8 to 12 m high. Branches light-gray or brownish- 

 gray, glabrous, striate, lenticellate, the young branchlets ferruginous- 

 stellate-pubescent. Leaves alternate, oblong or elliptic-oblong, 15 to 30 

 cm long, (! to 13 cm wide, brownish and shining when dry, glabrous or 

 with very few scattered stellate hairs beneath, the base acute or some- 

 what acuminate, the apex short-acuminate, margins coarsely and irreg- 

 ularly crenate-serrate, the teeth hearing glands at their apices; nerves 

 about IT on each side of the midrib, prominent, the primary reticulations 

 rather distinct, the ultimate ones faint : petioles I io ? cm long, glabrous 

 oi' with \\'\\\ scattered, stellate hairs, frequently slightly geniculate at 

 the apex. Staminate inflorescence axillary and pseudoterminal. slender, 

 elongated. 20 to io cm long, the branches few, short, the flowers densely 

 crowded in reduced, scattered cymes, glomerate, the rachis and branches 

 ultimately glabrous or nearly so, the younger parts more or less stellate- 

 or furfuraceous-pubescent. Buds more or less trigonous; sepals (in bud) 

 orbicular-ovate, obtuse, ;i mm long, strongly imbricate, the exposed por- 

 tions densely stellate-pubescent. Petals similar but glabrous, and in 

 bud somewhat smaller. Stamens about 12. Pistillate flowers and fruit 

 unknown. 



Luzon, Province of Cagayan, Apairi, For. Bur. 1121 1, April 1908; San Vicente. 

 For. Bur. 707S Klemmc, May, 1907. Ln dense forests 20 to 05 m above sea-level, 

 known to the Negritos as Togolipa and Aguindulonrj. 



The genus is new to the Philippines. 



STROPHIOBLACHIA Hoerl. 



Strophioblachia fimbricalyx Boerl. J la mil. PL Nederl. Tnd. 3 1 (1900) 236. 



Palawan, For, Bur. J,~>0J f , V t 58 Outran*, dune, 190"), 1900, Bur. Sci. .1)1 li<r- 

 mejo$, near the seashore. Mindanao, district of Zamboanga, Mcarvs 11). dan- 

 uary, 1904. 



An interesting addition to the Philippine flora, and especially to the long 

 list of species known only from the Philippines and Celebes. A monotypic genus 

 known previously only from Celebes. 



ANACARDIACEJE. 



PLEIOGYNIUM Engl. 



P. solanderi (Benth.) Engl, in DC. Monog. Phan. 4 (1883) 255. 



tipondias solanderi Benth. PI. Austral. 1 (1863) 492. 



Spondias phiogyna F. Muell. Fragm. 4:78. 



Luzon, Province of Rizal. For. Bur. 2166, 8163 A hem's collector, December. 

 1904, and dune, 1905, the former, with mature fruits, from Tanay, the latter, 

 with staminate flowers from Antipole 



A monotypic genus, previously known only from northern Australia, and its 



