DECEMBER 14, 1908) 'ÜTugkE Score or New PLANTS 481 
TORNARE WIN QE EET NUN a a ee ay NONI TNR TRETEN 
It is a form intermediate between M. tephrocarpum Turez. “^ 
» and M. pubescens Blm., but can be distinguished from either by 
its numerous, much smaller and glabrous mature leaves. ' 
SIMARUBACEJE. 
EURYCOMA Jack. 
Eurycoma dubia Elm. n. sp. 
Large 15 m. high tree; branches widely spreading; stem 
9 dm. in diameter, branched from below the middle; sap 
wood whitish, heart wood yellow, moderately hard, with a 
. peculiar greenish odor and bitter taste; bark gray mottled, 
whitish beneath the epidermis, that on the twigs dotted with 
light brown lenticels, quite bitter. Leaves opposite, rather 
: ample toward the ends of the twigs, glabrous, imparipinnate; 
, leaflet smooth, membranous, conduplicate on the upper side, 
| dark green above, glaucescent beneath, 5 to 8 em. long, 1.5 
to 3 em. wide across the middle, slightly inequilateral, sub- 
i oblique toward the acute or obtuse base, apex acute or ac- 
| uminate, the basal margin subentire, otherwise minutely cren- 
: ate; petiole 5 mm. long, also glabrous, that of the terminal 
leaflet 1 to 2 cm. long; nerves 5 to 7 on each side, rather 
obscure on both sides, divaricate. Inflorescence terminal, less 
than 1 dm. long, corymbosely paniculate, nearly as wide 
across the top; peduncles usually 3, subglabrous, branched 
from the middle; pedicels striate, puberulous, 2 mm. long, 
subtended by minute bracts; calyx puberulous, 5-apiculate, min- - 
ute; corolla whitish, glabrous, or in the young state slightly 
n hairy on the inner surface; the 5 petals free, at least 3 mm. 
K long, bluntly lanceolate, nerved, rather thick in texture, valvate, 
alternating with the calyx teeth; staminodes 5, alternating —— 
: with the petals, somewhat flattened, 1 mm. long, glabrous, 
" bearing a brown colored false anther; ligulate scales apparently 
absent; ovary superior, 5-celled, 2 ovules in each, obovoid, 
3 mm. long, nearly as thick, glabrous; style arising from near _ 
the base of the cells, central, erect, 0.5 mm. long; stigma - 
flattened, blackish, nearly 2 mm. across; fruits not known. 
~ Type specimen 10120, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuer- — — 
nos Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, May, 1908. — 
