299 LEAFLETS Or PHILIPPINE BOTANY (Vor. I. Art. 16 
metrie and elliptic to oblong; petiole glabrous, 1 cm. long, 
deciduous from the rachis and from the blade; veins con- 
spicuous, brown beneath, 6 to 9 on each side, ascendingly 
curved, the reticulations obscure. Young infrutescence from 
the axils of the fallen leaves, barely equalling the foliage, 
the upper one third broadly paniculate, the articulate branches 
usually in pairs and divaricate; the ultimate branchlets 
comparatively short, subtended by glabrous bracteoles; ped- 
icel 1.5 mm. long, rather thick, articulate at the base; calyx 
glabrous, united and persistent, rotately spreading, nearly 
3 mm. across, bluntly 5-toothed; corolla and stamens not 
seen; disk of base of ovary glabrous, rim like, rather thick 
and rugose; ovary sessile, conical, 2 mm. long, 1.5 mm. 
thick across the base, glabrous; style none; stigma terminal, 
circular, 0.38 mm. in diameter; young fruits fusiform, 1 cm. 
long, 0.5 em. thick through: the middle, obscurely trigonal, 
2 to 3-celled. 
Type specimen 9179, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province 
of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. A splendid tree in very 
humid woods between Lucban and Sampaloc. The absence 
of vascular bundles about the pith in the twigs, pinnate 
leaves and the 5-merous calyx throws our specimen into 
Scutinanthe. Its longer glabrous panicle at once distinguishes 
it from S. brunnea Thw. I take pleasure in naming this 
species in honor of Dr. Adolf Engler. 
DICHAPETALACEAE. 
Dichapetalum spicatum n. sp.—4A sparingly but widely 
branched shrub, 3 to 5 m. high, with slender lax branchlets; 
wood whitish, closely grained and hard, its bark yellowish 
brown. Leaves submembranous, darker green above, yellowish 
green beneath when dry, alternatingly scattered along the 
glabrous terete twigs, ovately oblong, glabrous, the medium 
sized blades 12 cm. long and 6 cm. wide, apex acuminately 
curved, base broadly rounded or subtruncate, entire margins 
slightly involute; petiole 1 em. long, subglabrous, deciduous; 
nerves nearly equally plain on both sides, the lateral 3 to 
5 ascendingly curved and anastomosing at their tips; retic- 
ulations equally visible from both sides, comparatively faint, 
numerous, subparallel near the base and along the midvein. 
