2812 Leaflets op Philippine Botany [Vol. VIII, Apt. 115 



from the type specimen of the species. 



Murraya banati Elm. n. sp. 



Shrubs; stem 5 to 10 cm thick, 3 to 5 m high, s sub- 

 erect, crooked and irregularly round, branched from below 

 the middle; branches spreading, rebranched, the ultimate 

 ones lax and descending; wood hard and heavy, yellowish 

 throughout, finely grained in a parallel manner with the 

 irregular surface, odorless and without taste; bark smooth, 

 yellowish gray, avellaneus beneath the epidermis; twigs terete, 

 the young green tips sparsely verrucose. Leaves descending, 

 alternate, submembranous, nearly flat, the abrupt bluntly 

 pointed apex recurved, the entire margins wavy, elliptic 

 though usually the smaller ones ovately elliptic and the few 

 larger ones obovately elliptic, composed of a single leaflet 

 or alternatingly 2 to 3-foliate, varying from 1 by 3 cm large 

 of the single leaf to the 5 by 10 cm large in the large 

 obovate leaflets, base obtusely rounded in the ovately el- 

 liptic ones, broadly cuneate in the others, the terminal 

 leaflet always much larger, glabrous, green in the dry state, 

 minutely punctate on both sides; midrib conspicuous be- 

 neath, also green when dry; lateral nerves 5 to 7 on each 

 side, oblique, anastomosing, reticulations evident; petioles 

 also green even on the dry specimens, short, on the single 

 leaves with the rachis varying from 5 to 15 cm in length 

 for the 2 to 3-foliate leaves, glabrous but verruculose, up- 

 per side flat and laterally ridged, the lateral petiolule less 

 than 5 mm long and darker green. Infrutescence laterally 

 scattered along the branchlets, upon 1 to 2 cm long strict 

 and verruculose peduncles; the peduncle at its distal end 

 irregularly enlarged and bearing I to 3 fruits upon 1 cm 

 long rather slender pedicels; fruits usually in pairs from 

 the distal end of the green and flexible pedicels, pendant, 

 fusiform, 2.5 cm long, sessile, soft, ruber red and with a 

 sweet taste when fully ripe, 2-celled but usually with only 

 a single seed. 



Type specimen number 13947, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 

 baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Aug- 

 ust, 1912. 



