M04 Merrill: Studies on Philippine Anonaceae, I 2A9 
2.5 to 3 mm long, the connectives concealing the anther-cells, 
truncate, oblique, rounded at the tip. Carpels many, crowded, 
narrowly oblong, pubescent; ovule solitary, basal. Young fruit 
ellipsoid, black when dry, about 1 cm long. 
Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Guinayangan, Bur. Sci. 20792 (type), 
20825 Escritor, March, 1913; Quinatacutan, Bur. Sci. 18177 Foxworthy & 
Ramos, March, 1911. 
A strongly marked species, at once recognizable by its large, solitary, 
very long pedicelled, axillary flowers. It has no close allies among the 
Philippine forms. 
POLYALTHIA LUCIDA sp. nov. § Monoon. 
Frutex vel arbor parva, floribus exceptis glabra; foliis oblongis 
ad oblongo-lanceolatis, valde nitidis, laevis, usque ad 22 cm 
longis, utrinque subaequaliter angustatis, apice acuminatis, basi 
acutis, nervis utrinque 10 ad 12, subtus prominentibus, rectis, 
valde anastomosantibus, reticulis laxis; floribus axillaribus, bre- 
viter pedicellatis, depresso-globosis, circiter 1 cm diametro, pe- 
talis late ovatis ad orbiculari-ovatis, valde incrassatis, carnosis, 
incurvis, liberis, interioribus quam exterioribus distincte majo- 
ribus; carpellis numerosis, ovulis solitariis. 
A shrub or small tree 4 to 6 m high, quite glabrous except 
parts of the flowers, or the growing tips of the branchlets some- 
times sparingly pubescent. Branches and branchlets terete, 
smooth, dark reddish-brown, somewhat shining. Leaves oblong 
to oblong-lanceolate, chartaceous, 12 to 22 cm long, 3.5 to 6 
em wide, smooth, both surfaces strongly shining, subequally 
narrowed to the acute base and to the rather sharply acuminate 
apex, the margins distinctly recurved; lateral nerves slender, 
straight, prominent on the lower surface, distant, 10 to 12 on 
each side of the midrib, prominently anastomosing with the 
arcuate marginal nerves 5 to 8 mm from the edge of the leaf, 
the marginal nerves about as prominent as the lateral ones, 
the reticulations lax; petioles about 8 mm long. Flowers 
greenish-yellow, depressed-globose, about 1 cm in diameter, axil- 
lary, solitary, the pedicels 5 mm long or less, obscurely pubescent, 
bracteolate at the base. Sepals valvate, very thickly coriaceous, 
reniform, rounded, about 2 mm long and 2 mm wide, externally 
slightly pubescent. Petals 6, 2-seriate, very thick and fleshy, 
strongly incurved, valvate, quite free, sparingly pubescent, bases 
broad, the inner three distinctly larger than the outer ones; 
outer petals broadly ovate, about 6 mm long and 5 mm wide, 
rounded or obtuse, the inner three thicker, up to 2 mm in thick- 
ness, 6 to 7 mm in diameter, rounded, suborbicular-ovate. Sta- 
mens many, closely packed, 1.8 mm long, the anther-cells lateral, 
