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Bosoboso (3082 Ahern's collector), May, 1905 (flower); (3200 Ahern's 

 collector), July, 1905 (fruit). 



No species of this genus has previously been found in the Philippines, 

 the present one being evidently closely related to the Hongkong Fraxinus 

 retusa Champ. 



Mayepea pallida sp. nov. 



A tree 8 to 10 m. high with very thick, coriaceous, glabrous, pale, short 

 stout petioled leaves, the nerves obscure, and axillary, usually many flow- 

 ered panicles, 2 to 7 cm. long, the flowers yellowish green, small. Branches 

 silvery gray, glabrous. Leaves lanceolate to elliptical lanceolate, taper- 

 ing below to the acute base, the apex acute or short acuminate, shining; 

 nerves obscure, about 7 on each side of the midrib, sometimes nearly obso- 

 lete; petioles very thick, glabrous, light gray, about 5 mm. long. Panicles 

 many flowered, solitary, glabrous, each subtended by several imbricated, 

 pale, ovate lanceolate, acuminate bracts, the branches short, 1 cm. long or 

 less. Flowers yellowish green, the pedicels 2 mm. long or less. Calyx 

 1 mm. long, the lobes short, triangular acute, slightly eiliate. Corolla gla- 

 brous, 2 mm. long, the lobes slightly united below^, elliptical, obtuse, con- 

 cave. Anthers broad, less than 1 mm. long. Ovary ovoid, glabrous, slightly 

 exceeding 1 mm. in length. Fruit oblong obovoid, nearly 1 cm. long, apicu- 

 late, dark colored and reticulate when dry. 



Type specimens: Bosoboso, Province of Rizal (2874 Ahern's collector), 

 March, 1905 (flower) ; also No. 2670 Merrill, same locality, June, 1903 

 (fruit), and No. 1835 Merrill April, 1903; Province of Bataan, Mount Mari- 

 veles (1142 Whitford), March, 1905; (2792 Meyer), same date; Province 

 of Camarines, Pasacao (44 Ahern), 1902; Mindoro, Pola (2255 Merrill), 

 May, 1903; Guimaras Island (267, 280, 309 Gammill), January-February, 

 1904. 



A species well characterized by its very thick, coriaceous, pale short 

 petioled leaves and small flowers. The leaves of young specimens are fre- 

 quently sinuous spinescent toothed, similating those of Taxotrophis ilici- 

 folia Vidal, and some species of Ilex. 



Mayepea racemosa sp. nov. 



A shrub or small tree 5 to 7 m. high with glabrous subcoriaceous, pale, 

 rather short petioled leaves, the yellowish white flowers in axillary racemes. 

 Branches silvery gray, glabrous. Leaves elliptical ovate, rather promi- 

 nently acuminate, the acumen blunt, the base acute or acuminate, glabrous 

 and shining on both surfaces, 8 to 13 cm. long, 5 to 7 cm. wide; nerves 

 7 to 8 on each side of the midrib, not prominent, anastomosing, the reticu- 

 lations very lax; petioles thick, light gray, glabrous, about 5 mm. long. 

 Racemes glabrous, solitary or two or three in each axil, black wdien dry, 

 the rhachis slender, 2 or 3 cm. long. Flowers opposite, yellowish white, 

 somewhat fragrant, each subtended by a broad subtruncate bracteole about 

 as long as the pedicel, the pedicels 1 to 1.5 mm. long. Calyx 1.5 mm. long, 

 glabrous, the lobes orbicular ovate, obtuse, occasionally refuse. Petals 4, 

 free, 5 to 5.5 mm. long, 1.3 mm. wide, oblong obtuse, glabrous, the margins 

 recurved. Anthers 1.5 mm. long. Ovary ovoid, glabrous 1 mm. long. 



