NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VII. 299 



A dioecious subglabrous tree 15 to 20 m high. Branches stout, brown 

 or grayish, glabrous, terete, with very large leaf-scars, the ultimate 

 branchlets densely ferruginous-pubescent; stipules linear-lanceolate, pubes- 

 cent, decidous, about 6 mm long. Leaves alternate, coriaceous or sub- 

 coriaceous, shining, elliptic-oblong or oblong, 14 to 30 cm long, 6 to 

 15 cm wide, glabrous, entire, or the margins in the upper portion slightly 

 and obscurely repand, the apex rather abruptly and sharply acuminate, 

 the base broad, rounded; nerves 10 to 12 on each side of the midrib, 

 prominent, anastomosing, the reticulations distinct, rather lax; petioles 

 3 to 8 cm long, when young ferruginous-puberulent, ultimately glabrous. 

 Flowers in axillary, solitary, ferruginous-puberulent racemes which are 

 10 cm long or less: pistillate flowers pedicillate, the calyx glabrous, 

 splitting from the top into two or three irregular lobes; petals 5, free, 

 ovate to elliptic-ovate, obtuse, about 4 mm long, 2.5 to 3 mm wide, 

 glabrous except the oblong-lanceolate, densely pubescent scale on the 

 inside, which is nearly 3 mm long; ovary ovoid, pubescent, 1-celled, with 

 three parietal placentae, each with one ovule ; styles three, short ; stigmas 

 three, thick, large, subpeltate, irregularly lobed : staminate flowers similar 

 to the pistillate, the irregular calyx divisions reflexed in anthesis; stamens 

 5; filaments 2.5 mm long; anthers 2 mm long, 2-locellate. Fruit 

 (immature) subglobose, glabrous, 2 cm in diameter, 1-seeded, the pericarp 

 crustaceous when dry. 



Luzon, Province of Rizal, Tanay, Merrill 2280 pistillate flowers; Bosoboso, 

 For. Bur. 2982 Ahern's collector, staminate flowers, Bur. 8ci. 2649 Ramos, 

 staminate flowers: Province of Laguna, Santa Maria Mavitac, For. Bur. 10065 

 Curran, February, 1908, sterile: Province of Tayabas, Lagumanoc, For. Bur. 9 

 Ware, immature fruit. Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens 

 695, with detached fruit. 



A species closely allied to Trichadenia zeylanica Thwaites, the type of the 

 genus, but is readily distinguished by its more numerously nerved, entire or 

 nearly entire, glabrous leaves, as well as by its smaller flowers, the calyx splitting 

 irregularly from the top. A most interesting discovery, the genus previously 

 consisting of the single species T. zeylanica Thwaites, confined to Ceylon. Local 

 Tagalog names are given by Ramos as Tadong or Tandong, and by Ware as 

 Malapingan. 



LECYTHIDACE^l 



BARRINGTONIA Forst. 



Barringtonia balabacensis sp. nov. § Stravidium. 



Arbor circiter 10 m alta, glabra; foliis chartaceis, oblougis, nitidis, 

 25 ad 40 cm longis, basi acuminatis, apice breviter abrupteque acumi- 

 natis, margine minute crenato-serratis, nervis utrinque 16 ad 18, pro- 

 minentibus; spicis axillaribus, usque ad 40 cm longis; fructibus anguste 

 oblongis, circiter 10 cm longis, 2.5 cm diametro, plus minus quadran- 

 gulatis. 



A tree about 10 m high, glabrous throughout. Leaves oblong, charta- 

 ceous, shining, 25 to 40 cm long, 8 to 12 cm wide, the base somewhat 



