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about 1 cm long, cinereous- or ferruginous-pubescent. Sepals 
reflexed in anthesis, elliptic-ovate, rounded, ferruginous-pubes- 
cent, about 6 mm long, 5 mm wide. Petals 6, 2-seriate, sub- 
equal, spreading from the base, ferruginous-pubescent externally, 
2.5 to 3 cm long, about 1.5 cm wide, the inner usually slightly 
larger than the outer ones, rounded at the apex, elliptic to 
elliptic-obovate. Stamens numerous, crowded, cuneiform, 1.2 
mm long, the anther-cells obscured by the truncate connectives. 
Carpels numerous, crowded, narrowly oblong, pubescent, about 
1 mm long, the style ellipsoid, 0.5 mm long; ovule basal, solitary. 
MINDANAO, District of Zamboanga, Santa Maria, Bur. Sci. 16460 Reillo, 
October 4, 1912, near Mount Pulungbato. 
A species well characterized by its leaves being glandular in the axils 
on the lower surface. It apparently has no very close allies in the 
Philippines. 
POLYALTHIA GRACILIPES sp. nov. § Monoon. 
Frutex vel arbor parva, glabra, ramis ramulisque teretibus 
tenuibus; foliis chartaceis vel subcoriaceis, anguste oblongis ad 
lanceolatis, nitidis, usque ad 20 cm longis, leviter inaequilatera- 
libus, rectis vel obscure falcatis, longe tenuiterque acuminatis, 
basi subacutis, nervis utrinque circiter 12; floribus axillaribus, 
solitariis, longissime pedicellatis, circiter 4 cm longis, petalis 
2-seriatis, obscurissime nigro-puncticulatis, in siccitate pallidis, 
exterioribus oblongo-ovatis ad subellipticis, 2 cm latis, interio- 
ribus circiter 1.3 cm latis. 
A shrub or small tree, quite glabrous except the very slightly 
pubescent parts of the flowers. Branches and _ branchlets 
slender, terete, dark reddish-brown when dry. Leaves narrowly 
oblong to lanceolate, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, 11 to 20 cm 
long, 2.5 to 3 cm wide, pale olivaceous when dry, shining, straight 
or somewhat falcate, often distinctly inequilateral, narrowed 
upward to the long and slenderly acuminate apex, and below 
to the acute or subacute base; primary lateral nerves about 
12 on each side of the midrib, slender, not prominent, straight, 
distant, anastomosing and forming an arched marginal nerve, 
the reticulations distinct; petioles about 4 mm long. Flowers 
solitary, axillary, the pedicels very slender, about 10 cm long. 
Sepals oblong-ovate to narrowly ovate, acuminate, chartaceous 
or subcoriaceous, glabrous or very obscurely pubescent, about 
9 mm long, 6 mm wide. Petals 6, 2-seriate, pale when dry, 
subchartaceous, minutely black-puncticulate, glabrous or nearly 
so, about 4 cm long, the outer three oblong-ovate to subelliptic, 
obtuse, about 2 cm wide, the inner three as long as the outer 
ones, obtuse, about 1.3 cm wide. Stamens indefinite, crowded, 
