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New Woody Plants from Mt. Maquiung 



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length; anther subversatile, short ellipsoid, nearly as 

 long as the filament; style erect, terete, fleshy, 2 mm. 

 long, terminated by an enlarged much flattened and entire 

 stigma; the sunken ovary radially striate at the top. 

 Fruit subglobose, constricted just below the calyx rim. 

 3.5 mm. through; seeds linear, 1.25 mm. long, light 

 brown, usually somewhat curved or subfalcate. 



Type specimen number 17533. A. D. E. Elmer, Los 

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

 July, 1917. In the jungled woods near the summit of 

 the mountain whose name it bears. 



Typical Astronia cumingiana Vid. has larger leaves, 

 longer petioles and are yellowish brown not a.shj' gray 

 beneath. 



MELIACEAE 



Dysoxylum testaceus Elm. n. sp. 



A small erect tree. Trunk 1.5 dm. thick, covered 

 with minutely checked bark; twigs 1.5 cm. thick, ap- 

 pressed hairy or glabrate. Leaves alternate, crowded 

 terminally, 3 to 5 dm. long, 15 to 21-foliolate, odd pinnate. 

 submembranous, curing yellowish green especially so on 

 the paler nether side; petiole about 1 dm. long, strict, 

 terete, enlarged at the base, dirty yellowish brown pu- 

 berulent as well as the rachis; leaflets sparsely pubes- 

 cent beneath, upon 5 to 8 mm. long petiolules, oblong. 

 the terminal ones obovately oblong, the basal much re- 

 duced ones ovate, abruptly acute, obtusely rounded at the 

 very oblique base, the average ones 5 cm. wide and 12 

 cm. long; midrib pronounced beneath, with 10 pinnate 

 pairs of lateral nerves whose faint ends are interarching. 

 reticulations obscure. Infrutescence along the branches, 

 usually in small clusters; stalks 1 to 3 cm. in length 

 or longer, mostly unbranched, nearly glabrous when old; 

 fruits sessile, alternate, 3 cm. long, obscurely angular and 

 oroid. tapering toward the apex and with a blunt base, 

 smooth and brown or testaceous; seeds 3 to 5, plano- 

 convex, nearly 2 cm. long and 8 mm. wide, oblong, 

 rounded at the base, bluntly pointed at the apex. 



Type specimen number 17386, A. D. E. Ebnxtr, Los 

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

 July, 1917. Collected in the lower dry forested region, 

 either along stream beds or upon ridges. 



Primarily separated from Dysoocylum cumin gianum 

 (Turcz-) DC by its larger, distinctly tapering, somewhat 

 rugosely angular and non-lenticelled fruits. 



