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beneath; lateral nerves 4 to 6 on a side, prominent beneath, 
oblique, its reticulations faint beneath. Infrutescence panic- 
ulate, terminal or upon special lateral branches, subpendulous, 
3 to 9 dm. in length, the ultimate branchlets bearing the 
fruits, ferruginous pubescent; capsules hard, greenish, half 
ligneous, covered with a reddish brown tomentum, but ultimate- 
ly becoming glabrous, without transverse oblique or longi- 
tudinal striate markings, the interior covered with & dense 
brown tomentum, obovoid from the side view, 5 cm. long, 3.5 
cm. wide above the middle, the base attenuate into a short 
pedicel, 2.5 cm. thick below the middle, narrowed toward 
the subtrancate rounded apex; seed apparently immature, 
oblong, with a basal caruncle. 
Type specimen 9422, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province 
of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. A rare sprawling shrub in 
the thickets at 850 meters on Mount Banahao. It has previously 
been collected by the writer at Sablan, Province of Benguet, 
Luzon. 
BURSERACEAE. 
Scutinanthe engleri n. sp.— Tree, 15 m. high, with a 
broad round top; main branches erect, the ultimate rather 
numerous and horizontally spreading; bark brown with 
grayish white blotches, covered with lighter brown lenticels; 
that on the young twigs shining reddish brown; wood white, 
moderately hard but easily cutting. Leaves exstipulate, 
smooth, deep green above, much lighter or glaucous green 
beneath, conduplicate on the upper surface, subcoriaceous, 
alternatingly crowded toward the ends of the branchlets, 
imparipinnate, the average ones about 3 dm. long; the 1 
dm. long peduncle and rachis terete, shining smooth, more 
or less constricted and subarticulate at the insertion of 
the leaflets, 3 cm. protruding above the uppermost pair of 
leaflets and bearing a single leaflet; leaflets deciduous, entire, 
margins subinvolute, 3 to 5 pairs, 3 to 5 cm. apart. the 
basal ones somewhat smaller and suboblique, narrowly ovate 
lanceolate to oblong, 12 em. long, 4 cm. wide below the 
middle, the upper portion gradually tapering to an acu- 
minate point, the basal portion frequently inequilateral and 
subobliquely rounded or subobtuse, the terminal leaflet sym- 
