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tomosing, the reticulations distinct; petioles 4.5 to 5.5 cm long, 
much thickened and rugose at the base. Flowers axillary, about 
5 in each axil, the pedicels glabrous or very slightly pubescent, 
nearly 3 cm long. Calyx-lobes four, 2-seriate, coriaceous, 
broadly ovate, obtuse, about 8 mm long, 7 mm wide. Corolla 
and stamens not seen. Fruit “green, globose” (not seen) ; seeds 
brown, shining, about 18 mm long, 10 mm wide, slightly com- 
pressed, acute. 
MINDANAO, District of Zamboanga, Margosatubig, For. Bur. 21873 Villa- 
mil, June 9, 1914, forested slopes, altitude about 70 meters. 
A species characterized by its large leaves with numerous, very prom- 
inent nerves; flowering specimens may show it to belong in some other 
genus. 
SIDEROXYLON Linnaeus 
SIDEROXYLON VILLAMILII sp. nov. 
Arbor alta partibus junioribus floribusque parce pubescentibus 
exceptis glabra; foliis oblongis, chartaceis vel subcoriaceis, usque 
ad 20 cm longis, nitidis, sursum angustatis, obtusis, basi cuneatis 
vel decurrento-acuminatis, nervis utrinque circiter 8, subtus 
prominentibus; floribus parvis, axillaribus, fasciculatis, breviter 
pedicellatis; sepalis 6, circiter 2 mm longis, extus parce pubes- 
centibus; staminoideis oblongis, obtusis, integris, 0.7 mm longis; 
ovario dense hirsuto. 
A tree reaching a height of 30 meters, glabrous except the 
slightly cinereous-pubescent flowers and pedicels and the growing 
tips of the branchlets. Branches terete, dark reddish-brown 
when dry, glabrous. Leaves oblong, chartaceous to subcoria- 
ceous, 10 to 20 em long, 3.5 to 7 cm wide, about equally narrowed 
to the obtuse tip and to the cuneate or decurrent-acuminate base, 
dark-olivaceous and shining when dry; lateral nerves about 8 
on each side of the midrib, slender but prominent, curved, anas- 
tomosing, the reticulations lax, distinct; petioles 1 to 3 cm long. 
Flowers small, axillary, fascicled, up to ¥ in each fascicle, the 
pedicels sparingly cinereous-pubescent, 3 to 5 mm long. Sepals 
6, outside sparingly cinereous-pubescent, about 2 mm long, 1.5 
to 2.5 mm wide, concave, rounded, the inner ones larger than 
the outer ones, varying from oblong-ovate to subreniform-ovate. 
Corolla tubular, about 2.7 mm long, glabrous, the lobes 5, orbi- 
cular-ovate, rounded, about 1 mm in diameter. Stamens 5, the 
filaments very short; anthers ovoid, acute, 0.6 mm long. Sta- 
minodes alternating with the corolla lobes, oblong, obtuse, entire, 
a _ 0.7 mm long, glabrous. Ovary densely hirsute; style stout, 
glabrous, 2 mm long. Fruit globose or depressed-globose, gla- 
brous, fleshy, when dry up to 4 cm in diameter, the seeds pale- 
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