March 27, 1915] Two Hondrkd Twenty Six New Spiccies— II 2819 



Palaquium gigantifolium Merr. in the leaves and stipular bracts. 



Palaquium pinnatinervium Elm. n. sp. 



Large and lofty tree; bole 10 dm thick in diameter, 

 20 to 25 m high, buttressed and almost entirely standing 

 upon prop-roots, chiefly branched toward the top; main 

 branches spreading and erect or ascendingly curved, numer- 

 ously bracteate toward the glabrous tips; wood moderately 

 bard, white though slightly reddish tinged toward the cen- 

 ter, odorless, a trifle bitter; bark thick, reddish or purplish 

 red toward the inner side, smooth and grayish brown on 

 the surface, only roughened with longitudinal lines of ex- 

 crescences, containing latex; bracts ovately lanceolate, 2 to 

 3 cm long, 1 cm wide across the base, greenish brown, 

 strongly curved upward and twisting toward the acuminate 

 point, usually a pair from each side of the petiole, glabrate. 

 Blades 4 to 5 dm long and 15.5 cm wide above the mid- 

 dle, obovately oblong, broadly rounded at the apex, gradually 

 narrowed toward the base or slenderly pandurate, at the 

 base obtuse and 1 cm wide, entire edges subinvolute in 

 the dry state, ascending, alternatingly crowded toward the 

 distal end of the twigs, subchartaceous, shallowly folded upon 

 the upper much darker green and glabrous surface, beneath 

 finely yellowish brown puberulent or canescent; midrib yel- 

 lowish green, similar in vestiture when young, ultimately 

 glabrate, very stout and ridged beneath, yellowish green in 

 the natural state, dark brown when dry, flat and a 

 trifle sunken along the upper glabrous side; lateral nerves 

 pinnatinerved, of 25 slightly ascending pairs, yellowish 

 brown canescent, tips ascendingly curved, relatively prom- 

 inent, oblique cross bars very numerous and obscure; pet- 

 iole broad and very thick especially toward the base, 2.5 

 cm long, flat along the upper side, glabrous, nearly black 

 in the dry state. Flowers not found. Fruits clustered along 

 the branchlets, hanging upon recurved 3 to 5 cm long greenish 

 brown glabrous pedicels; nuts short ellipsoid, lucid green, 

 3.5 cm long by 1.75 to 2 cm thick, subtended by the 

 obscurely 3-lobed persistent calyx. 



Type specimen number 13896, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 



