223 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. I, Arr. 12 
Cynometra alternifolia n. sp.—Tall trees with splendid 
boles 6 to 9 dm. in diameter; branchlets grayish white with 
minute brown lenticels, rigid, quite numerous and forming 
bushes at the ends of the main branches. Leaves rigid, 
coriaceous, unequal in size, ovately oblong or subelliptic, 1 
to 38-foliate, frequently curved especially toward the apex, 
glabrous and lucid on both sides, entire, obtuse or acute 
at apex, obtuse or rounded at base, the blades alternating, 
15 cm. long, 7 cm. wide; nerves 9 to 13 on each side 
equally visible from both sides, scarcely more prominent 
than the secondary ones and numerous reticulations; petiole 
thick, transversely wrinkled, glabrous and more or less 
glandular, 8 mm. long, easily separating. Infrutescence ax- 
illary, rigid, 1 to 3 dm. long, widely but sparingly branched, 
the branchlets roughened by the numerous scars of the fallen 
flowers; fruits comparatively few coming to full maturity, 
quite heavy, lenticular or almond shaped, 2 to 3 cm. long, 
1.5 em. thick, brown, finely scurfy or scaly, obtusely rounded 
at both ends, subsessile, its sides not extremely thick nor 
fleshy. 
Type specimen 7356, A. D. E. Elmer, Palo, Province 
of Leyte, Leyte, January, 1906.. 
Pithecolobium williamsii n. sp.—Tree, 5 m. high at 
least, with medium hard white wood; bark reddish brown, 
. roughened with numerous lighter colored lenticels. Leaves 
2 dm. long, chiefly toward the end of branchlets which form 
rather dense bushes, ascending rachis caniculate or fluted on 
the upper side toward the apex, with 2 to 3 pairs of pinnae; 
pinnae also grooved, erect, the terminal pair characteristically 
recurved, from 10 to 15 em. long, the basal pair usually 
smaller; glands conspicuous, in between the base of the 
pinnae stalks; leaflets 3 to 7 pairs, the terminal pair largest, 
ascending, dull green but paler beneath, oblong to obovate 
or frequently subrhomboid, upon very short and thick pet- 
ioles, acute at both ends or more rounded at apex, the average 
one 5 cm. long and 2.5 cm. wide, glabrous, subcoriaceous, 
the brown midrib beneath prominent, nerves and reticulations 
faint, entire. Inflorescence axillary and subterminal, straight 
and rigid, erect, about 2 dm. long, the upper flower bear- 
