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circiter 8 cm longis, dense cinereo-puberulis; pedicellis quam ala- 
bastra ovoidea brevioribus; petalis quam laciniae calyciniae 
duplo longioribus. 
A tree 15 to 20 m high, nearly or quite glabrous except the 
rather densely cinereous-puberulent inflorescence. Branches 
reddish-brown, glabrous, lenticellate, much thickened, 1 to 1.5 
cm in diameter. Leaves alternate, crowded at the apices of the 
branchlets, 30 to 45 cm long, deciduous before anthesis, the rachis 
often somewhat puberulent, becoming glabrous. Leaflets straight 
or somewhat falcate, 9 or 10 on each side of the rachis, opposite or 
nearly so, chartaceous or thinly coriaceous, oblong, ovate-oblong, 
or lanceolate-oblong, glabrous and somewhat shining when 
dry, of the same color on both surfaces, the lower ones usually 
smaller than the median ones, 5 to 12 cm long, 2 to 4.5 em wide, 
the margins entire or rarely distantly and irregulary crenulate, 
the apex rather prominently acuminate, the base usually broad, 
rounded or sometimes subtruncate, usually somewhat cordate, 
strongly inequilateral, never with an additional pinnule at the 
base as in Garuga floribunda Dene. Panicles appearing before 
the new leaves, terminal, usually many from the apices of the 
branchlets, about 8 cm long, all parts densely cinereous-puberu- 
lent. Flowers yellow, rather congested on the ultimate branch- 
lets of the inflorescence, puberulent, their pedicels 1 to 1.5 
mm long, shorter than the ovoid buds. Calyx 3 mm long, the 
lobes oblong-ovate, acute, 1.5 mm long. Petals puberulent, 
oblong-oblanceolate or narrowly oblong, usually acute, reflexed, 
about twice as long as the calyx-lobes. Filaments 2.5 mm long, 
pubescent, much thickened below; anthers 1 mm long. Ovary 
ovoid, sessile, pubescent, 2 mm long, 4-celled, each cell 2-ovuled, 
style stout, puberulent, 2.5 mm long; stigma obscurely 4-lobed. 
Fruit black when ripe, obovoid, much wrinkled when dry, gla- 
brous, 8 to 10 mm in diameter, each containing one or two sub- 
globose, prominently rugose seeds about 5 mm in diameter. 
Luzon, Province of Tayabas, For. Bur. 12342 Curran (type), April, 
1908, near the seashore. MAasBATE, For. Bur. 12572, 12587 Rosenbluth, 
January, 1909, both specimens sterile. CrBu, Talisay, For. Bur. 6481 
Espinosa, September, 1906. Mrinporo, For. Bur. 8705 Merritt, January, 
1908. 
A tree, usually growing near the seashore, apparently rather widely 
distributed in the Philippines. It is manifestly allied to Garuga flori- 
bunda Dene., of Timor and northern Australia, but appears to be distin- 
guished from that species by its entire, much larger, leaflets, absence of 
the supplementary reduced pinnules at the base of the leaflets, and its 
short-pedicelled flowers. The inflorescence is not strictly terminal, but 
the peduncles are in the crowded axils of the fallen leaves at the apices 
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