NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VIII. 183 



ate liowers somewhat fascicled ou tlie ultimate braiichlets, their pedicels 

 1.5 to -i nun long", glabrous. Sepals -t, ovate, acute, 0.8 mm long. 

 Petals 4, oblong, -'^ mm long, 1 to 1.3 mm wide, thin, obtuse, the apex 

 appendiculate inside. Stamens S, the filaments rather densely clothed 

 with spreading luiirs in the lower lialf, tlie longer four 3 mm, the shorter 

 four 2 mm in length; anthers U.8 mm long. Pistillate Howers similar 

 to the staminate ones, the staminodes slightly pubescent. Ovary ovoid, 

 glabrous, 1.2 mm long, glabrous, deeply longitudinally -l-sulcate, 4-celled, 

 each cell 2-ovuled ; style very short (less than O.o mm) ; stigma radiately 

 4-lobed. 



Batanes Islands, Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco. Bur. Sci. .1235 Meanis, 

 Kur. .SV(. 3603 Fenix, Bur. i:ici. 10682 McGregor, locally known as idacacai/o : 

 Sabtan, Bur. Sci. 10676 McGregor. 



Some of these specimens were previously referred by me ^ to MeUcope luzonensis 

 Engl., but they are sufficiently distinct to warrant description as a separate 

 species. M. densiflora is distinguished from M. luzonensis Engl, by its differently 

 shaped and fewer nerved leaves, its dense inflorescence, and especially by its pilose 

 filaments and staminodes. Bur. Sci. 321.', Mearns is possibly referable here, but 

 its filaments seem to be quite glabrous. 



EVODIA Forst. 



Evodia acuminata sp. nov. 



Arbor inflorescentiis exceptis glabra, circiter 10 m alta; foliis trifo- 

 liolatis vel aliis unifoliatis, foliolis subcoriaceis, oblongo-obovatis, nitidis, 

 basi acuminatis, apice abiitpte subcaudato-acuminatis, acuminibus circiter 

 1 cm longis; inflorescentiis axillaribus, peduneulatis, (! ad 8 cm hmgis ; 

 floribus 4-meris, sepal is petalisque glanduloso-punctatis. 



A tree about 10 m high, glabrous except the inflorescence, the ultimate 

 branchlets, petioles and under surfaces of the leaves distinctly glandular- 

 punctate, the branches terete, smooth, pale-brownish, the ultimate branch- 

 lets somewhat compressed. Leaves opposite, the petioles (5 to 9 cm long, 

 or those of unifoliolate leaves onty about 2 cm long: leaflets usually 

 three, sometimes solitary, oblong-obovate, subcoriaceous. shining, paler 

 beneath, 9 to 14 cm long, 4 to G cm wide, entire, the apex broad, 

 abruptly sul)caudate-acuminate, the acumen about 1 cm long, the base 

 decMrrent-acuminate, the lateral leaflets somewhat inequilateral; petio- 

 lules 0.5 to 1.5 cm long; primary lateral nerves 8 or 9 on each side of 

 the midrib, distant, irregular, anastomosing, the secondary ones often 

 nearlv as prominent. C}Tnes axillary, peduncled. the peduncles 3.5 to 

 5 cm long, solitary, glabrous, each cyme about 3 cm wide, the branches 

 and branchlets cinerous-puberulent. Flowers white, somewhat crowded, 

 their pedicels 3 to 4 mm long, puberulent, each subtended by two or 

 three, ovate, 1 min long bracteoles. Sepals 4, orbicular, imbricate, about 

 3 mm in diameter, rounded, glandular-punctate, margins minutely ciliate. 



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