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Leaflets of Philippine Botany 



[Vol. VIII, Art. llfi 



ovary compressed, densely hairy, 4-rugulose, at the middle 

 bearing a short glabrate and erect style. 



Type specimen number 13159, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

 Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, May, 1911. 



This fine tree species was collected in damp forests of 

 fertile soil along the trail to Napsan at about 750 feet above 

 sea level. 



Its relation is with Evodia semicarpifolia Merr. and Evo- 

 dia glabrum Blm. though especially related to the latter. 



Evodia benguetensis Elm. n. sp. 



Suberect, small tree or shrub like; branchlets erect, rather 

 numerous, yellowish gray, the green terminal or leaf bearing 

 portion glabrous, roughened more or less by the leaf scars. 

 Leaves 3-foliate, similarly disposed, oppositely crowded, 6 to 9 

 cm long, glabrous even in the young state; petiole 2 to 3 cm 

 long, ascending, drying brown, rather slender, subterete, larger 

 leaflets 6 cm long and 2 cm wide above the middle, obovately 

 oblong, apex rounded and occasionally emarginate, base cu- 

 neate, the lateral ones frequently inequilateral, callous margins 

 entire and rather conspicuously recurved upon the nether side, 

 drying unequally green or brown on the 2 sides, rigidly 

 chartaceous, subsessile or upon a very short petiolule, articu- 

 lated at the base, deeper green and sublucid on the upper side; 

 midrib ridged beneath, caniculate above, smooth and more 

 yellowish green or brown; lateral nerves about 10 on each 

 side, very obscure, divaricate, their ends forming a submargi- 

 nal line, reticulations quite evident from the lower side only. 

 Inflorescence 2 to 3 or even 5 cm long, branched above the 

 middle, arising from the uppermost leaf axils, erect or ascend- 

 ing; peduncle 1.5 to 3 cm long, strict, glabrous, striate or 

 subjoin pressed; branchlets opposite, the lower or longer ones 

 subtended by obovately elongated perfectly glabrous green 

 bracts; flowers more or less clustered toward the distal ends 

 of the ultimate branchlets; bud pedicels very short, rela- 

 tively thick, subtended by blunt bracteoles; flowers usually 

 in groups of 3, subtended by vestiges of bracts; pedicels 

 2 mm long, glabrous; buds subglobose; calyx green, 1 mm 

 long, 4 toothed, the greenish glabrous teeth obtuse; petals 



