492 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. lI, Arr. 24 
SABIACEJE. 
MELIOSMA Blm. 
Meliosma sylvatica Elm. n. sp. 
Rather slender shrubs, 5 m. high, suberect, with thick 
sparsely branched branchlets; wood white, soft, easily break- 
ing; bark smooth, gray and brown mottled. Leaves 3 to 5 
dm. long; at the apex of the branchlets only, imparipinnate, 
submembranous, lucid green above, reddish beneath, with recurv- 
ed tips, glabrous or with strigose brown hairs, 9 to 15 leaflets 
which are subopposed, the basal ones somewhat smaller and 
ovate, the middle ones oblong, the terminal ones largest and 
obovate, the lower one half of the margin entire, that portion 
toward the apex serrately apiculate, apex abruptly acute, base 
obliquely obtuse or subcuneate, the average blade 15 cm. long 
by 5 em. wide; petiole less than 1: em. long, ferruginously 
hirsute as is also the entire rachis, peduncle, and young apical 
portions of the twigs, thickened toward the base, the terminal 
much longer and slenderer; nerves prominent especially beneath, 
oblique, the dark brown retieulations also prominent. Inflores- 
cence paniculate, terminal, 3 to: 6 dm. long, about 3 dm. wide 
across the base; branches puberulent; pedicels 1 to 3 mm. 
in length, persistent to the fruits; calyx glabrous, brown and 
persistent, submembranous, spreading or reflexed in young 
fruits, obscurely united at the base, 4-segmented, the obscurely 
rounded lobes 1.5 mm. long; fruits 8 mm. long, bluntly round- 
ed at both ends, keeled, conspicuously reticulate on the sides, 
smooth, hard, reddish in the fresh state, nearly black when dry. 
Type specimen 9132, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Sahoo 
of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. ; 
A slender undershrub of dense woods at 2500 fet on 
mount Banahao. 
Probably it is only an intermediate form between M. luzonica 
Merr. and M. $ee-levge multiflora Merr. Number 8819 Elmer from 
Baguio is not typical M. multiflora Merr., and our specimen mainly 
differs from his species in its less coriaceous and reticulate 
leaves, and in its shrubby size. Neither can it be referred to 
the former species. Both the Benguet species are stocky trees. 
Our species is always a sparsely branched slender undershrub. 
