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lateral; pistils about 18, shorter than the anthers, irregularly- 

 angular, canescent except the glabrate stigmatic portion; fruits 

 composed of 9 seeds, subglobose, the entire cluster nearly 

 4 cm. across, short stipitate, the individual ones less than 

 1.25 cm. in diameter, smooth, shining vermillion red. 



Type specimen number 12170, A. D. E. Elmer, Romblon 

 Province of Capiz, Island of Romblon, March, 1910. 



Gathered in fertile soil of bottom lands along a wooded 

 creek at 50 feet altitude. 



Near to P. lanceolata Vid. bnsed upon Cuming 450 which 

 to me appears very similar to P. suberosa Hk. et Th. At 

 once distinguished by the much larger leaves, smaller seg- 

 ments of the flowers and by its larger fruits. 



Polyalthia minutiflora Elm. n. sp. 



A strictly erect shrub; stem 3 to 5 cm. thick, 3 to 4 

 m. high, terete, branched from below the middle; wood 

 quite hard, odorless and tasteless, dingy white; bark ater 

 and griseus mixed, smoothish, testaceus except the epidermis; 

 branches divaricate, only 3 to 5 dm. long, numerously 

 rebranched, scattered and forming an elongated crown; the 

 twigs short and flexible, the young tips fulvus pubescent, 

 terete, slender. Leaves alternate, scattered, lucid and deeper 

 green above, drying avellaneus, margins entire and in the 

 dry state carved upon the nether side, the sharply acu- 

 minate apex recurved, base rounded and slightly inequi- 

 lateral and cordately notched, glabrous, very unequal in 

 size, the larger ones 1 dm. long by 3.5 cm. wide at the 

 middle, oblong, nervose on both sides; midrib furrowed along 

 the upper side, upon the nether side ridged and in the 

 young state fulvus especially toward the base; lateral nerves 

 similarly sunken above and ridged beneath, oblique, 8 to 11 

 pairs, tteir ends united 5 mm. below the edge, reticulations 

 quite evident from both sides; petioles short and thick, 

 terete, densely ferrugineus pubescent. Flowers odorless, solitary 

 or few clustered, terminal and leaf opposed or along the 

 branchlets; pedicels purpli.-<h green, terete, brown when dry, 

 usually hairy, slightly thickened toward - the distal end, 1 

 cm. long, subtended by short bracts and inserted upon a 



