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olivaceous, the lower pale when dry, apex shortly acumin- 
ate, gradually narrowed in the lower two-thirds to three-fourths 
to the narrow and abruptly rounded or obtuse base, which is at 
most 2.5 em wide; midrib very stout, the primary lateral nerves 
30 to 35 on each side of the midrib, somewhat curved, anas- 
tomosing, prominent, the reticulations rather lax, distinct, the 
secondary nervules leaving the nerves at about right angles; 
petioles very stout, about 1 cm long or less, panicles terminal, 
about 20 cm long, more or less pubescent, the primary branches 
few, up to8cm long. Immature fruits oblong, about 1 cm long, 
glabrous; hypocarp somewhat turbinate, about 4 mm long, black 
when dry, cinereous-pubescent. 
PANAY, Capiz Province, Mount Madiaas, Bur. Sci. 30711 
Ramos & Edaiio, May 12, 1918, in forests. 
This species is manifestly allied to Semecarpus gigantifolia 
F.-Vill. and like that species is unbranched. It differs essentially 
in its terminal, not cauline, inflorescences which are more or less 
pubescent and in its distinctly pubescent hypocarps. 
SEMECARPUS FERRUGINEA sp. nov. 
Arbor parva, ramulis inflorescentiisque ferrugineo-pubes- 
cens; foliis oblanceolatis ad oblongo-oblanceolatis, coriaceis, 
nitidis, acuminatis, basi angustatis, subtus glaucis, nervis 
utringue 12 ad 14, perspicuis; paniculis terminalibus, usque ad 
28 cm longis; fructibus oblique ovoideis, glabris, 1.2 cm longis, 
hypocarpio ferrugineo-pubescens. 
A small tree, the branchlets, inflorescences, and hypocarps 
more or less ferruginous-pubescent. Leaves oblanceolate to 
oblong-oblanceolate, coriaceous, 12 to 16 cm long, 3 to 4.5 cm 
wide, apex slightly acuminate, somewhat narrowed below to the 
cuneate or obtuse base, the upper surface brownish-olivaceous, 
shining, glabrous except the pubescent midrib, the lower surface 
glaucous, slightly pubescent along the midrib and nerves; lateral 
nerves 12 to 14 on each side of the midrib, curved, anastomosing, 
the reticulations rather lax, distinct, the primary nervules leav- 
ing the nerves at nearly right angles; petioles stout, 7 to 10 mm 
long, sulcate on the upper side, pubescent. Panicles terminal, in 
fruit up to 28 cm long, the rachis and branches densely ferrug- 
inous-pubescent, the primary branches few, scattered, the longer 
ones about 6 cm in length. Fruits obliquely ovoid, glabrous, 
black and somewhat shining when dry, about 1.2 cm long, the 
very young ones with a few ferruginous hairs; hypocarps 5 to 
7 mm long, ferruginous-pubescent, the indumentum somewhat 
deciduous; pedicels 5 to 8 mm long. 
