0, 5 Merrill: Philippine Plants, XII 313 
cm longis, dense fulvo-pilosis; floribus in anthesis 1 ad 1.5 cm 
diametro. 
A small tree about 8 m high, glabrous except the inflorescence. 
Branches brown, smooth, slender, terete, the ultimate ones 2 to 
3mm in diameter. Leaves elliptic or elliptic-ovate, chartaceous, 
brown when dry, the lower surface paler than the upper, some- 
what shining, about 20 cm long, 10 cm wide, the apex rather 
broadly acuminate, the acumen blunt, the base rounded or sub- 
acute, sometimes a little decurrent, supplied at the junction with 
the petiole with a pair of very prominent oblong glands which 
are open on the lower surface, slightly projecting on the upper 
one; lateral nerves about 10 pairs, rather prominent; petioles 
2 cm long. Racemes axillary, 6 to 9 cm long, rather densely 
pubescent with pale fulvous hairs; bracteoles oblong-lanceolate, 
acuminate, pubescent, 3.5 mm long, deciduous; pedicels about 
2mm long. Flowers white, in anthesis 1 to 1.5 cm in diameter. 
Calyx-tube funnel-shaped, 3 mm long, 4 mm in diameter at the 
throat, the lobes 6, ovate-lanceolate, somewhat acuminate, pu- 
bescent, 2 to 2.5 mm long. Petals 6, suborbicular to orbicular- 
ovate, 2 mm long, very densely pubescent on both surfaces. 
Stamens indefinite, the filaments 2 to 6 mm long. Ovary gla- 
brous, ovoid; style 5 mm long. 
Luzon, Province of Laguna, Dahican River back of San Antonio, Bur. 
Sci. 14923 Ramos, June, 1912. 
A distinct species, well characterized by its unusually large leaves with 
their very prominent basal glands, and by its flowers which are con- 
siderably larger than those of any other known Philippine species. 
LEGUMINOSAE 
ORMOSIA Jack 
ORMOSIA VILLAMILII sp. nov. § Amacrotropis. 
Arbor circiter 25 m alta, glabra, inflorescentiis ignotis; foliis 
imparipinnatis, circiter 25 cm longis, foliolis circiter 7, alternis 
vel inferioribus suboppositis, chartaceis, nitidis, oblongis, usque 
ad 11 em longis, obtuse acuminatis, basi rotundatis; leguminibus 
anguste oblongis, tenuibus, 11 cm longis, 2.5 ad 3 cm latis, semi- 
nibus 3 vel 4. 
A tree about 25 m in height, quite glabrous so far as the ma- 
terial shows (inflorescence not seen). Branches slender, brown- 
ish, shining, terete, lenticellate. Leaves alternate, about 25 cm 
long, the rachis and petiole dark brown or nearly black when dry ; 
leaflets usually 7, alternate, or the lower ones subopposite, 
