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DecemBer 14, 1908] "gs Score or New PLANTS 
curved, 3 to 5-nerved on each side, quite prominent beneath, 
cross bars faint, the main nerves arching and connected 
below the margin; fruits hard, green, smooth, turning leathery 
brown when dry, solitary or in pairs from the leaf axils; 
triangularly ellipsoid, 3 em. long, 2.5 em. in diameter, loculic- 
idally dehiscing ultimately, the carpels 2 to 3 mm. thick, 
3-celled, its partitions dry and comparatively thin, more or 
less thickened at the apex; seeds solitary in each cell, 
pendulous from a short thick persistent point, triangularly 
obovoid, 1.5 em. long, smooth; peduncles 2 to 3 cm. long, 
persistent, woody, conspicuously thickened toward the apex. 
Type specimen 7416, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province 
of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1906. 
Only one tree was found in sparse woods on the edge 
of a ravine bordering a grassy glen, at 2250 feet. 
This is a small genus of only one or two Javan species 
and has not been reported previously from our islands. 
SAPIUM R. Br. 
Sapium crassifolium Elm. n. sp. 
Stunted tree or tree like shrub, 5 m. high, the main 
ascendiug branches arising from below the middle, the twigs 
smooth, slender; wood moderately hard, dull white or near- 
ly brown towards the center; bark gray, scaling in plates. 
Leaves very coriaceous, glabrous, descending, lucid on both 
sides, somewhat paler green beneath, conduplicate on tie upper 
side, quite variable, oblongish obovate, the average ones 1 
dm. in length, 5 cm. in width, entire, apex rounded and abrupt- 
ly tapering into a short acute point, gradually narrowed toward 
the obtuse base; nerves ascendingly curved, 5 to 7 pairs, 
the ends anastomosing, quite prominent on both sides, reticula- 
tions also prominent; petiole 5 to 8 mm. long, subglabrous, 
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stout, grooved along the upper side. Inflorescence terminating - ; 
short lateral branchlets or occasionally axillary, 1 to 3-clustered; 
the spikes rather early falling, usually united near the base T 
when there are 2 or 3, strict, from 5 to 10 em. long, short 
yellowish pubescent; flowers odorless, sessile, solitary or loosely 
grouped along the spike, reddish brown, each individual sub- —— 
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