OCTOBER 21, 1907] Some New LEGUMINOSAE 222 
Cynometra densiflora n. sp.—A round topped rather 
bushy tree, 15 to 20 m. high, with white hard wood; main 
branches ascending, the ultimate ones forming dense masses; 
twigs quite short, crooked and gnarly; bark on the branches 
gray, that on the twigs covered with small brown lenticels. 
Leaves alternate, bipinnate; petiole 5 cm. long or longer in the 
larger leaves, somewhat swollen at the base; petiolule smaller 
but similar; leaflets in 3 to 5 opposite pairs, subcoriaceous, 
lucid green above, glaucous or somewhat yellowish green 
beneath, umber brown when dry, divaricate, unequally sided, 
with recurved tips and dorsally conduplicate sides, ovate 
to oblong, about 7 cm. long, 3 cm. wide, apex subfalcate 
and acuminate, base rounded; nerves 3 to 5 on each side 
of the prominent midvein, reticulate, the lateral ones more 
pronounced on the upper surface, shining brown; leaflet 
petiole 4 mm. long. Inflorescence terminal or subterminal, 
quite heavy and in the bud state succulent, 2 to 3 dm. 
long, cymosely paniculate, the terminal axis shorter and 
usually bearing the earliest flowers; flowers densely arranged 
along the short brown pubescent spikelets, caducous, sessile, 
subtended by very short triangularly ovate bracts which are 
densely covered on the outer side with a brown tomentum; 
calyx cupular, 2 mm. long, bearing 5 rounded teeth, strigosely 
pubescent; petals 5, imbricate, creamy white, 3 to 5 mm. long, 
nearly equal, united at the base, 2 mm. wide, oblong, obtuse at 
apex; stamens 10, united at the base and inserted upon the 
corolla; filaments spreading, glabrous, about 6 mm. long, 
apex pointed; anthers deep yellow, 1 mm. long, nearly as 
broad, versatile; ovary stipitate, woolly; style slender, bear- 
ing a terminal small capitate stigma, about equalling the 
stamens. 
Type of flowering specimen 9014, A. D. E. Elmer, Luc- 
ban, near the barrio of Sampaloc, Province of Tayabas, 
Luzon, May, 1907. Only one tree was observed in humid 
woods at 500 meters. It is very suggestive of Adenanthera 
from which our flowering specimen can be distinguished by 
its imbricate petals. Quite near to C. warburgit Harms, 
which however has smaller, alternate, more coriaceous and 
blunter leaflets. 
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