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18 The Philippine Journal of Science 1915 
floribus ignotis, racemis axillaribus, solitariis, usque ad 10 cm 
a longis; leguminibus 1-spermis, oblongo-ellipticis, 6 cm longis, 3 
x cm latis, 1 cm crassis, utrinque angustatis, basi acutis, apice 
a rostrato-acuminatis, valvis lignosis. 
‘ A tree about 7 m high, glabrous except the inflorescence. 
Sy Branches terete, lenticellate, grayish or reddish-brown. Leaves 
alternate, odd-pinnate, the petiole and rachis 10 to 12 cm long; 
leaflets usually 7, subcoriaceous, ovate to oblong-ovate, up to 
18 cm long and 4.5 cm wide, the apex shortly and obtusely 
a acuminate, the base usually rounded, equilateral or somewhat 
= inequilateral, the upper surface brownish-olivaceous when dry, 
shining, the lower paler; lateral nerves about 9 on each side 
of the midrib, prominent; petiolules 5 to 8 mm long. Flowers 
not known, the persistent rachises of the racemes axillary, soli- 
tary, thickened, somewhat pubescent, with numerous thickened 
protuberances. Pods brown when dry, oblong-elliptic, 1-seeded, 
woody, about 6 cm long, 3 cm wide, and at least 1 cm thick, 
narrowed below to the acute base and above to the rostrate- 
3 acuminate apex, glabrous, the corners rounded, not angled, the 
valves woody, shining, smooth. Seed solitary, subelliptic, some- 
what narrowed to the rounded ends, about 3.5 cm long, 2.3 om 
wide, and nearly 1 cm thick. 
PALAWAN, Silanga, in deserted clearings on slopes, Merrill 9578, May 
24, 1913. 
A species well characterized by its very thick, woody, 1-seeded pods. 
4 CROTALARIA Linnaeus 
CROTALARIA ORIXENSIS Willd in Ges. Naturf. Fr. Neue Schr. 4 
(1808) 217; Baker in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 2 (1876) 83. 
Luzon, Manila, Bur. Sci. 19145 Guerrero, December, 1912, in waste 
4 places, certainly of recent introduction. 
* For the identification of the above specimen I am indebted to Sir D. 
os Prain, director of the Royal Gardens, Kew, England, to whom a specimen 
was sent. The species is of wide distribution in British India (Western 
Peninsula), in Abyssinia, and is reported from tropical Africa. It is 
undoubtedly a recent introduction in the Philippines. 
SIMARUBACEAE 
BRUCEA J. S. Miller 
4 BRUCEA AMARISSIMA (Lour.) comb. nov. 
Gonus amarissimus Lour. Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 658. 
Brucea sumatrana Roxb. Hort. Beng. (1814) 12, Fl. Ind., ed. Carey, . 
G 1 (1832) 449; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 1 (1875) 521; Lecomte Fl. | 
Gén. Indo-Chine 1 (1911) 698. 
This widely distributed Indo-Malayan species is apparently quite common 
in the southern Philippines, and is represented in our collections by spec- 
imens from Negros, Leyte, Camiguin, Cebu, Palawan, Basilan, and Min- 
