476 LEAFLETS or PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. II, Arr. 24 
Type specimens for fruit 7662, for flower 7504, A. D. E. 
Elmer, Lucban, Province of Tayabas, May, 1906 and 1907 
respectively. 
Along wooded ravines at 2500 feet on mount Banahao. 
The flowers have a strong sweet odor. 
It can be distinguished from P. glandulosum Merr. by its 
perfectly glabrous twigs and leaves and longer pedicels. Dif- 
fers from P. preslii Merr. by its very conspicuously raised 
glands at the leaf base. 
RUTACEJE. 
 MELICOPE Forst. 
Melicope odorata Elm. n. sp. 
Small tree, 6 m. high; wood soft, white throughout; 
bark mottled, brown on the branches, easily pealing. Leaves 
submembranous, similarly green on both sides, rolled upon 
the upper side, tips recurved, trifoliate, opposite, mainly 
along the greenish and glabrous ends of the lax twigs; pe- 
duncles nearly 5 em. long, smooth, terete, grooved on the upper 
side; blades broadly oblanceolate or lanceolate, 10 to 15 cm. long, 
3 to 4 em. wide above the middle or frequently much smaller 
and narrower, entire, the acute or acuminate points blunt, 
gradually taperiug toward the base; petiole glabrous, 1 cm. 
long, also grooved along the upper side, usually thickened 
at the base; midvein very prominent beneath, smooth; the 
lateral pairs about 11, rather fine, divaricate, anastomosing, 
the reticulations fine but quite evident beneath. Inflorescence 
paniculate, axillary, about 1 dm. long, glabrous; branches 
divaricate, usually unbranched; pedicels 8 to 5 mm. long, 
Strict, glabrous, subumbellately clustered, subtended by short 
thick excrescences; calyx glabrous, united at the base, flat- 
tened in anthesis, the 4 obtuse segments not exceeding 0.5 
mm. inlength; petals white, 4, free, oblongish, obtuse, 8 mm. long, 
1.25 mm. wide below the middle; stamens 8, inserted below 
the ovary, opposite the calyx segments and the petals; fila- 
.ments 3 mm. long, delicate, glabrous; anthers ellipsoid, ver- 
satile, at least 0.5 mm. long, nearly as broad; ovary very finely 
