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toward the top, freely rebranched and forming tangled 

 masses, tough, terete, grayish brown, glabrous. Leaves 

 alternating, ample, well scattered, also glabrous, rigidly 

 coriaceous, oblong, rounded at both ends but apex ter- 

 minated in a short acute point and base sometimes merely 

 obtuse, lucid and darker green above, entire, drying 

 equally brown on both sides, 4 to 6 cm. wide, 10 to 

 15 cm. long, upon a 1.25 cm. long caniculate rather 

 stout petiole which after falling leaves a raised circular 

 scar; midrib pronounced beneath, with 7 to 10 ascendingly 

 curved and more or less interarching lateral pairs of 

 nerves, reticulations coarse and obscure. Infrutescence 

 terminal, varying from 1 dm. to 1 m. in length, panic- 

 ulate although the main branches are short rebranched, 

 rigid, yellowish gray, the ultimate ones appressed yellowish 

 brown pubescent; pedicels alternate, not numerous, scat- 

 tered, 1 cm. in length, stout and similar in vestiture, 

 apparently articulate at the base and after falling leaving 

 prominent scars, usually provided with 1 or 2 very blunt 

 scattering bracts; calyx persistent, 5 to 8 mm. across, 

 saucer shaped, the imbricate bracts rotund and somewhat 

 united at the base, strigose except the inner surface, 

 rigidly chartaceous; drupes fusiform, 2 to 3 cm. long, 

 terete, with a stone-like endocarp and apparently 1 seeded, 

 the shining exocarp fleshy and white. 



Type specimen number 18001. A. D. E. Elmer, Los 

 Baflos (Mt. Maquiling), Province of Laguna, Luzon, June- 

 July, 1917. Discovered in dense humid forests far above 

 the bulala plantation. 



Its much larger leaves serve to distinguish it from 

 all other Philippine species of this genus. The 

 numerous white fruits hanging in long streamers from 

 the crown of tall trees presented an imposing sight. Ded- 

 icated to E. B. Copeland, original and for many years dean 

 of the College of Agriculture, University of the Philippines. 



CUNONIACEAE 



Weinmannia luzoniensis puberula Elm. n'. var. 



A small sized tree. Branchlets lax, terete, soft pu- 

 bescent especially the young portions. Leaves opposite, 

 12 to 20 cm. long, imparipinnate, 7 or 9-foliolate. petiole 

 and rachis pubescent; leaflets oblong to obovately oblong, 

 submembranous, much paler and nearly glabrous beneath, 

 the terminal or larger one cuneate at the base, the 

 others broadly obtuse, margins crenately serrate, the larger 

 blades 10 cm. long by 3.5 cm. wide, acuminate; midrib 



