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tomosing; petiolules about 4 mm long. Panicles (in fruit) ter- 
minal, glabrous, as long as the leaves, the fruits nearly black 
when dry, obovoid, about 6 mm in diameter, slightly compressed, 
obscurely reticulate. 
Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Mount Pular, Bur. Sci. 19417 Escritor, 
January, 1913, in forests near the summit of the mountain. 
A species well distinguished by being glabrous or nearly so, and by its 
entire leaflets. It is probably most closely allied to Meliosma sylvatica 
Elm., but that species is prominently pubescent and has denticulate 
leaflets. 
MELIOSMA MACGREGORII sp. nov. 
Arbor erecta vel scandens (?) prominente ferrugineo-hirsutis ; 
foliis pinnatis, usque ad 40 cm longis, foliolis 9, oblongis ad 
oblongo-oblanceolatis, coriaceis, usque ad 12 cm longis, acumi- 
natis, basi acutis, nervis utrinque circiter 10, subtus valde prom- 
inentibus, margine integris ad leviter distanter denticulatis; 
paniculis terminalibus, amplis, multifloris, folia subaequantibus ; 
floribus racemose dispositis, circiter 3 mm longis. 
An erect tree of small size (or scandent ?), the branches, 
inflorescence, petioles and rachis, and the leaflets beneath and 
on the midrib and lateral nerves on the upper surface prom- 
inently ferruginous-hirsute. Leaves pinnate, up to 40 cm long, 
the leaflets 9, coriaceous, oblong to oblong-oblanceolate, 7 to 12 
cm long, 2.5 to 4 cm wide, the apex sharply acuminate, base 
acute, margins entire to distantly and irregularly denticulate, 
the upper surface grayish to brownish when dry, somewhat shin- 
ing, the midrib, nerves, and primary reticulations more or less 
impressed, the former two ferruginous-hirsute, the lower surface 
brown, paler than the upper surface, prominently hirsute on the 
midrib and lateral nerves, with few hairs on the reticulations; 
lateral nerves about 10 on each side of the midrib, very prom- 
inent, curved-anastomosing, the reticulations prominent; pet- 
iolules 6 to 10 mm long and with the rachis and petioles 
prominently ferruginous-hirsute. Panicles terminal, about as 
long as the leaves, prominently ferruginous-hirsute, the primary 
branches distant, spreading, up to 16 cm long, the lower second- 
ary ones of each branch up to 7 cm long, many flowered, the 
flowers white, racemosely disposed on the ultimate branchlets, 
not crowded, their pedicels 1 mm long or less, the bracts and 
bracteoles oblong, pubescent, 1 to 2 mm long. Sepals ovate to 
elliptic-ovate, about 1.8 mm long, margins ciliate. Outer three 
Se petals orbicular-ovate, rounded, 2.5 to 3 mm long, the inner 
two reduced to a bifid membranaceous scale about 1 mm long, 
cleft into two oblong lobes. Stamens about 1.8 mm long, the 
