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on the ultimate branchlets, rather numerous, white, their pedicels 
slightly ferruginous-pubescent with short appressed hairs as 
are the sepals externally. Sepals 4 or 6, orbicular-ovate, coria- 
ceous, rounded, 2 to 3 mm long, the inner two or three a little 
larger than the outer two or three. Corolla about 6 mm long, 
the tube about 1.5 mm, the lobes 6, oblong-elliptic, rounded or 
obtuse, about 4.5 mm long, 2.5 to 3 mm wide, externally very 
slightly pubescent. Stamens 12; anthers oblong, acute or acu- 
minate, about 2.6 mm long. Ovary ovoid, pubescent, 5- to 7- 
celled, narrowed upward into the rather stout style, the ovary 
and style about 6 mm long. 
Luzon, Province of Rizal, Mount Susong Dalaga, Bur. Sci. 19160 Reillo, 
December 6, 1914, altitude not indicated, but from the mossy forest. 
The species somewhat resembles a small leaved form of Palaquium 
cuneatum Vidal, and is characterized not only by its unusually small 
leaves, but by its very obscure, often nearly obsolete nerves, very short 
pedicels, and the variable number of sepals, either 4 or 6; in those flowers 
with 4 sepals, however, there are always 6 corolla lobes and 12 stamens. 
I know of no other species of Palaquiwm where the number of calyx lobes 
is variable. 
PALAQUIUM LANCEOLATUM Blanco FI. Filip. (1887) 403, ed. 2 (1845) 
282, ed. 3, 2 (1878) 159. 
This species is of importance as it is the type of the genus Palaquium 
Blanco, and no material previously referred to the species, unless it be 
Vidal’s specimen cited by Dubard, has agreed with Blanco’s description 
in essential characters; specimens referred by me at various times to the 
species have correctly been indicated by Dubard as a distinct species, 
Palaquium merrillii Dubard,’ as Blanco’s species has 18 stamens, and the 
material Dubard has referred to P. merrillii has but 12 stamens. Speci- 
mens in flower, recently collected, agree in practically all details with 
Blanco’s description, and I feel perfectly confident that the present inter- 
pretation of the species is the correct one, and an amplification of Blanco’s 
description follows: 
A tall tree, quite glabrous except the younger parts and the 
flowers. Branchlets and young petioles ferruginous-pubescent. 
Leaves oblong to oblong-oblanceolate or obovate, rarely ap- 
proaching the lanceolate type, coriaceous or subcoriaceous, brown 
and shining when dry, glabrous on both surfaces, shortly and 
obtusely acuminate to obtuse or even rounded at the apex, base 
narrowed, cuneate; lateral nerves about 11 on each side of the 
midrib, prominent, the reticulations fine; petioles about 1 mm 
long. Flowers numerous, axillary, in the axils of leaves and of 
fallen leaves on the ultimate branchlets, fascicled, their pedicels 
ferruginous-pubescent, 2.5 to 4cm long. Outer 3 sepals densely 
ferruginous-pubescent, ovate, acute to somewhat acuminate, cori- 
* Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 15 (1909) 381. 
