Maron 27, 1915] Two Honprep TwENTY Six New Specirs—I 2571 
Standing among Dip'erocarpaceae forests in a very humid 
flat at 750 feet altitude and right near Bayabas my head- 
quarters. According to the Manobos ‘‘Sagasac’’ is its native 
de 7 name. 
i / Protium philippinensis Elm. n. sp. 
Spreading and of a medium sized tree; stem 3 dm 
thick, obscurely wadded, 10 m high, branched toward the 
top only; wood hard, burly, distinctly bitter, odorless, sap- 
wood white, otherwise nearly roseus; bark gray, smooth 
m or scaling in plates, testaceus except the surface; branches 
| freely rebranched and numerous, the flexible twigs hanging, 
' glabrous even the young green tips, the branchlets copious, 
horizontal or descending, the normal ones 5-foliate, the 
smaller ones 3-foliate, 1 to 2 dm long; peduncle one third 
E to one half as long, subterete, minutely striate, sparsely 
lenticelled, slightly thickened toward the base and flat in 
the axil, also glabrous, dark green in the fresh state; rachis 
similar though more grooved on the upper side especially 
at the point of insertion of the petiolules; petiolules 1 to 
1.5 em long for the lateral ones, 2 cm long for the ter- . 
minal leaflet, finely grooved along the upper side; leaflets 
subelliptie or obscurely ovately oblong, the smallest ones 
broadly lanceolate, acute to obtuse at the base and some- 
times slightly inequilateral, gradually extending to the acute 
or subacuminate usually recurved apex, the average ones 8 
em long by 3 cm wide at or a trifle below the middle, | 
brown on both sides, glabrous, shining on the upper sur- 
face; midrib ridged beneath, sunken above; lateral nerves 
5 to 8, subdivaricate, comparatively faint, tips archingly 
united,  reticulations numerous and still more obscure. 
Inflorescence usually arising from the terminal leaf axils, 
8 to5 cm long, ascending, green, brown when dry, short 
branched above the middle and puberulent; branches divari- 
cate, less than 1 cm long, subtended by broad puberulent 
bracts or bract vestiges; flower greenish, clustered toward 
the distal end of the branchlets, they as well as the twigs 
have a strong turpentine odor, subsessile; calyx 2 mm long, 
‘ turbinate, irregularly terete, glabrate but very minutely 
