291 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. I. Arr. 16 
green but lemon colored when in anthesis, base not con- 
stricted and nearly plane, with a semilunar cushion near 
the base on the ventral side, free; the inner whorl of 3 
petals equal in length and similar in texture and pubes- 
cence, narrower, lanceolate, the blade equally tapering to- 
ward both ends, the basal 5 mm. united but free at the 
very base, forming a kind of hood over the stamens and 
pistils; stamens indefinite, caducous, smooth, pink, curved, 
the connective much flattened and truncately rounded at 
the apex, subcuneate, nearly 2 mm. long; anthers along 
the dorsal edges, extending nearly to the base; ovaries whit- 
ish, persistent, canescent, 1.5 mm. long, from 5 to 7, ter- 
minated by a short glabrous brown colored style; fruit not 
seen. 
. Type specimen 9136, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province 
of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. Apparently nearest related 
to A. cumingianus Vid., hut the smaller less pubescent 
flowers and the slenderer pedicels at once mark it as distinct. 
Polyalthia grandifolia n. sp.—A lax sparingly branched 
shrub, 3 m. high; bark of branches gray, shallowly ridged, 
that on the twigs densely covered with a yellowish tomen- 
tum. Leaves rather few, flat, membranous and subscarious, 
2 to 3 dm. long, 1 dm. wide, dark green and glabrous 
above except the pubescent midrib, much paler beneath at 
least in the dry state and subglabrous, apex acuminate, 
base obtuse or rounded, broadly oblong; nerves pinnate, 15 
to 19 pairs, very prominent beneath, ascendingly curved, 
their apices gradually reduced to the faint articulations, 
sparsely pubescent; petiole thick, 5 mm. long, densely pub- 
escent with olivaceous hairs; peduncle 8 mm. long, about 
9 mm. thick, soft pubescent; calyx evidently very thick; 
receptacle subconie, 1 cm. thick, densely pubescent; young 
carpels covered with a dense soft ashy colored pubescence 
as is also the short stout pedicel, subellipsoid, 12 mm. 
long, 8 mm. thick, more tapering toward the apex; seed 
apparently only one in each carpel, caryopsis like, 7 mm. 
long, 3 mm. in diameter, nearly black, rugose, sublaterally 
attached near the base, 
