ne if ate say at ak cx eo ese se apa 
x,C,1 Merrill: New or r Noteworthy Philippine Plants, XI 11 
Samar, Mount Cauayan, Phil. Pl. 1637 Ramos, April, 1914, on forested 
slopes. 
The most striking character of this species is its cauline inflorescence. 
It is manifestly allied to Pithecolobium pauciflorum Benth., but differs 
- not only in the disposition of its inflorescences, but in its very differently 
shaped, more numerously nerved leaflets. In vegetative characters it 
closely resembles Pithzcolobium bigeminum Benth. as represented by 
Thwaites C. P. 644. 
PITHECOLOBIUM MULTIFLORUM sp. nov. 
Arbor 6 or 8 m alta partibus junioribus inflorescentiisque 
plus minusve ferrugineo-pubescentibus; foliis circiter 40 cm 
longis, bijugatis, pinnis inferioribus 4-foliolatis, superioribus 
8-foliolatis, foliolis subcoriaceis, oblongis vel oblongo-lanceolatis, 
breviter obtuse acuminatis, basi acutis ad subrotundatis, usque 
ad 14 cm longis, nervis utrinque circiter 9, subtus prominentibus ; 
paniculis terminalibus, quam folia longioribus, e basi ramosis, 
multifloris; floribus subcapitatis, capitulis 4- vel 5-floris, in 
ramulis plus minusve confertis, petalis fere liberis. 
A tree 6 to 8 m high, closely allied to Pithecolobiwm ellipticum 
Hassk., the branches dark-colored when dry, glabrous or nearly 
so, the branchlets sparingly brown-pubescent with short hairs, 
the primary and secondary rachises of the leaves and the in- 
florescence with similar hairs, the younger parts of the inflores- 
cence densely ferruginous-pubescent. Leaves about 40 cm long, 
evenly 2-jugate, the rachis about 10 cm long, with a single very 
large and prominent gland about 1.5 cm above the base, none 
between the pinnae; lower pinnae 2-jugate, the rachis about 
3.5 em long, with a gland between the petioles of the distal 
leaflets; upper pinnae 4-jugate, about 30 cm long, with a large 
gland between the upper two pairs of petiolules, the lower two 
leaflets alternate, the others opposite. Leaflets subcoriaceous, 
oblong to rather broadly oblong-lanceolate, entirely glabrous, 
shining, brownish-olivaceous, the lateral ones somewhat falcate 
or inequilateral, shortly and bluntly acuminate, base acute to 
somewhat rounded, or at least rounded on one side of the petio- 
lule, the lower ones smaller than the upper, 8 to 14 cm long, 
3.5 to 5 cm wide; lateral nerves about 9 on each side of the 
midrib, prominent; petiolules about 5 mm long. Panicles term- 
inal, ample, many-flowered, branched from or near the base, 
as long as or longer than the leaves, the lower branches up to 
40 cm in length, the secondary branches in the upper two-thirds. 
Flowers in small heads on the ultimate branchlets, the heads 
4- or 5-flowered, often crowded, the subtending bracteoles ovate, 
about 1 mm long. Calyx brown, about 3 mm long, rather 
re en te a aa 
At See 
co aa 
Sky a 
ce A eaten sy: 
ea ie ee 
ab 1S PS) iS las 
