1 84 MERRILL. 



Petals 4, obloug or oblong-ovate, about 5 mm long, 2.3 to 2.5 mm wide, 

 apex acute, minutely appendaged inside. Stamens 4, the filaments stout, 

 2 mm long, bearing imperfect, oblong, 1 mm long anthers. Ovary pubes- 

 cent, deeply 4-lobed, 4-celled, each cell 2-ovuled; style stout, 3 mm long, 

 pubescent; stigma subcapitate. Staminate flowers and fruits unknown. 



hvzos. Province of Sorsogon, Sorsogon, For. Bur. 10320 Ctinan, .luiie 10, 1908, 

 near abaca {Mvsa textiUs) plantations, altitude about 200 m. 



A species well characterized by its abruptly acuminate leaflets, 3-foliolate and 

 1-foliolate leaves occurring on tlie same branches, its ratlier small, rather long- 

 peduncled cymes, and comparatively large flowers. It is apparently as closely 

 allied to Evodiu (jiubia Bl., as to any other species, but is quite different 

 from that. 



MELIACE.E. 



AG LAI A Lour. 



Aglaia lanceolata sp. nov. § Euaglaia. 



Arbor parva vel arbuscula, ramulis foliis jiiuioribus inflorescentiisque 

 densissime brunneo-lepidotis ; foliis alternis, imparipinnatis, foliolis 7 

 ad 11, anguste lanceolatis, membranaceis vol chartaceis, apice sensim 

 acuminatis, basi inaequilateralibus, acutis vel acuminatis, in sicco pallidis, 

 nitidis, utrinque praesertim subtus plus minus brunneo-lepidotis; pani- 

 culis axillaribus terminalibusquo, foliis subaequalibus vel brevioribus, 

 diffusis, multifloris; floribus minutis, 5-meris, racemose dispositis, breviter 

 pedicellatis, tubo stamineo libero. 



A small tree or shnib (2 m high according to the collector), all parts 

 more or less brown-lepidote, the branchlets, inflorescence and young 

 leaves densely so. Branches terete, gray or l)rowuish, ultimately gla- 

 brous. Leaves alternate, 20 to 30 cm long, the rachis at first lepidote, 

 ultimately glabrous or nearly so. Leaflets 7 to 11, alternate, or the 

 upper ones opposite, narrowly lanceolate, 8 to 12 cm long, 1.5 to 2 cin 

 wide, rather pale and somewhat shining when dry, the young ones 

 deU'Sely brown-lepidote on both surfaces, the mature ones ultimately nearly 

 glabrous, the apex narrowly and gradually acuminate, the base inequi- 

 lateral, acute or acuminate; nerves 15 to 20 on each side of the midrib, 

 indistinct; petiolules about 2 mm long. Panicles axillary and terniiual, 

 about ]5 cm long, pyramidal, dilfusc, branched from the base, all parts 

 densely brown-lepidote. Flowers 5-merous, small, rawniosely disposed 

 on the ultimate branchlets, very numerous, their pedicels about 1 mm 

 long. Calyx-lobes lepidote, rounded, 0.5 mm long. Petals glabrous, 

 orbicnlar or orbicular-elliptic, about 1 mm long. Staminal-tube globose, 

 glabrous, free from the petals, crenate at the apex: slnnuMis 5, inserted 

 at al)Out the middle of the tube, included.' 



Luzon, Province of Nueva Vizcaya, Amucucan, near Bayoinliong, lUir. Sci. St/jl 

 Ramos, ]\lay 13, 1909, in forests along streams. 



A species manifestly allied to Aglaia angustifolia (Miq.) C DC, but abuiuhiiitly 

 distinct, well characterized bv its narrowlv btnceolate leaves. 



