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pale yellowish green, glabrous, profasely panicled, I to 1.5 

 dm. long, the lower peduncles subtended by small leaves, 

 branched from below the middle; branchlets opposite, simi- 

 larly rebrjMiched; flowers pale yellowish green, few clustered 

 at the ends of tlie ultimate very short branches; pedicels glab- 

 rous, 1 mm. long or less, in the early state subtended by 

 bracts equalling it in length; the bracts are usually somewhat 

 keeled and rather pointed, the margins sparsely ciliate, quite 

 rigid; sepals glabrous, imbricate, 5, cup shaped, subequal, 

 short elliptic or ovately so, coriaceous, 1.5 mm. long, very 

 sparingly ciliate along the margins or finely punctate on the 

 back, united at the very bise; petals 5, equal, ascending, 

 free, clawed at the base, 2 ram. long at least, 1.25 mm. 

 wide across the middle, elliptic or obovately elliptic, round- 

 ed at apex; fertile stamens normally 5, alternating with the 

 petals and inserted upon their very bases, erect or ascending, 

 accompanied by a sessile outwardly recurved gland; filaments 

 glabrous, 1 mm. long on an average, nearly straight; anther 

 broadly elliptic, 0.5 ram. long, basifixed, notched at base and 

 emarginate at apex; ovary very minute, sessile, conical, glab- 

 rous, terminated by a mere vestige of a point. Very young 

 fruit elongated ellipsoid, glabrous, surrounded by the much 

 enlarged corolla segments; wings unequal, oblong, 2 cm. long, 

 at least 5 mm. wide at the middle, yellowish with purplish 

 streaks toward the base but turning reddish brown when dry. 



Type specimen numbers 12982 and 13155, A. D. E. Elmer, 

 Puerto Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, April and May, 1911. 



Discovered in red compact soil in a humid wooded de- 

 pressiow at about 2000 feet altitude. Named after W. F. 

 Foxworthy, professor of forest botany in the College of Agri- 

 culture, Philippines University. 



Apparently allied to S. schwenkii Tet/ms. of Malacca. 



Semecarpus obtusata Elm. n. sp. 



Erect and burly tree; trunk nearly 6 dm. thick, 12 m. 

 high, its main branches arising from below the middle; 

 wood not hard but tough, moderatefy light in weight, odor- 

 less and without taste, the outer few to several cm. pure 

 white, the balance gradually changing into the roseus heart- 



