490 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY (Vor. II, ART. 24 
STAPHYLEACEÆ. 
TURPINIA Vent. 
Turpinia ovalifolia Elm. n. sp. 
Tree, 8 m. high or higher, with a straight 8 dm. thick 
trunk; ultimate limbs spreading, rather short and gnarly; 
wood whitish, moderately hard, covered with thick deeply 
checked bark. Leaves opposite, usually from 2 to 3 pairs 
toward the ends of the twigs, glabrous, subcoriaceous, con- 
duplicate on the upper side or frequently nearly flat, with 
recurved tips, lucid dark green above, much paler beneath, 
leaflets 5 to 7, elliptic to rotund, apex round and with an 
abrupt acute point, base equally rounded, margins entire or 
only obseurely crenate with fine whitish callous points, the 
average ones 5 by 7 cm.; petiole 1 em. long, glabrous, caniculate 
on the upper side, deciduous; nerves equally plain on beth 
sides, 3 to 5 pairs, ascendingly arched, reticulations minute 
and obsenre. Infrutescence terminal or subterminal, suberect, 
about equalling the foliage, ternately branched from the base, 
paniculate, glabrous. Flowers creamy white, upon 3 mm. long 
comparatively thick gabrous pedicels which are subtended by 
a pair of short acute bracteoles; calyx glabrous, campanulate 
or cup shaped, the basal one third united, the 5 lobes oblong 
and truncately rounden, 4 mm. long, 2 mm. wide; petals 
free, thinner, narrowly obovate, at least as long as the calyx 
segments, alternating; stamens of an equal number, not exerted, 
glabrous, strict, free, 3 mm. long; the filaments rather thick 
but with a finely pointed apex; anthers versatile, 0.75 mm. 
long, at least that in width; ovary glabrous; style 2 mm. 
long, gradually tapering to the apex, confluent but separating 
with age into 3; stigma subcapitate; fruits subglobose or obovoid, 
1 to 1.5 em. thick, the apex usually provided with 3 distant 
mucronate points which are more or less connected wit reticu- 
lations, hard, green, 3-celled, each cell apparently only 1-seeded. 
Type specimen 8088, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province 
of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. 
Occasionally met in woods at 2500 feet of mount biia. 
The author has also collected it at 7000 feet on mount Santo- 
Tomas, province of Benguet, Luzon. 
