Leaflets of Philippine Botany 



[Vol. in, Ait. 121 



Inflorescence erect, terminal and leaf opposed, glabrous, 

 about 5 cm. long, with few short branches above the 

 middle; flowers yellowish, few clustered terminally, sessile; 

 calyx unequally 5 toothed, turbinate, short and thick stip- 

 itate, 5 mm. long; corolla about us long, inserted upon 

 the inner base of the calyx, the basal one third united, 

 the broadly 4-lobed segments reflexed; stamineal column 

 short, the 4 segments emarginate at the apex; anthers 

 alternating, inflexed; pistil also glabrous. Infrutescence 

 becoming much elongated, 5 or more cm. long, nearly 

 as wide, corymbosely few branched, the relatively slender 

 branches bearing few fruits toward their ends, glabrous 

 and when dry murinous; pedicels 5 mm. long, compar- 

 atively thick; fruits 1.25 cm. wide, compressed globose 

 when fresh, 4 rugose, glabrous, yellowish brown, sub- 

 tended by an obscurely 4 toothed calyx, normally with 

 4 trigonous seeds. 



Type specimen number 18092, A. D. E. Elmer, Los 

 Ratios (Mt. Maquiling), Province of Lag una, Luzon, June- 

 July, 1917. Collected on nearly precipitous wooded slopes 

 of the socalled crater. 



Much resembling Leea philippinensis Mere, though much 

 Iner in ail respects, 



Leea luzonensis Elm. n. sp. 



A very slender tree-like shrub. Stem 5 cm. thick, 

 few branched toward the too. Leaves alternate, few toward 

 the end of the thick branches, up to a meter in length, 

 triangular in outline, decompound, subcoriaceous, gla- 

 brous, much paler green beneath and curing much lighter 

 brown; petioles and rachis terete, swollen and articulate 

 at the base and at the branching points; leaflets oppo- 

 site as well as the branchlets, odd pinnate, from 5 to 

 9 along each of the main branches, varying from ovate to 

 narrowly elongated, the basal pair 8 cm. long by 3 cm. 

 wide, the terminal blades 2 dm. long by 5 cm. wide 

 below the middle, broadly obtuse to rounded at the entire 

 base, sharply acute to subcaudate, the margins irregu- 

 larly serrate, the lower petiolules 5 mm. long. that"of 

 the terminal leaflet up to 5 cm. in length; midrib prom- 

 inent beneath, the larger leaves with about 10 ascending 

 pairs of nerves, the lower leaves with ouly one half as 

 many lateral nerves, reticulations evident. Inflorescence 

 corymbosely paniculate, terminal or subooposite the upper- 

 most leaf, the average ones 15 cm, long and about as 

 widely branched from below the middle, the stout pe- 

 duncle roughened by lenticels; secondary ped uncles com 



