274 MERRILL. 



MEDICAGO L. 



MEDICAGO LUPULINA L. Sp. PI. (1753) 779; Baker in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. 

 Ind. 2 (1876) 90. 



Luzon, Benguet Subprovince, Baguio, Merrill 7762, May, 1911, in waste 

 places, open grassy slopes, altitude about 1500 m. Introduced and appar- 

 ently established, as is Medicago denticulata Willd. 



Widely distributed in Europe and Asia, introduced in North America. 



SIMARUBACEAE. 



SURIANA L. 



SURIANA MARITIMA L. Sp. PI. (1753) 284; A. Gray Bot. Wilkes U. S. 

 Explor. Exped. (1854) 307. 



LUMBUCAN Island, Sulu Sea, Phil. PL UOS Merrill, September, 1910. 

 Mangsee Island, Wilkes Expedition. 



This species has already been reported from the Philippines by A. Gray, 

 specimens having been collected by the Wilkes Expedition on Mangsee 

 Island, a short distance south of Lumbucan this record having been 

 overlooked by me in my paper on the Philippine plants collected by the 

 Wilkes Expedition.'' It is widely distributed in the tropics of the World, 

 but its occurrence in the Old World is rather peculiar and apparently 

 restricted. I have found no published record of its occurrence on the 

 Asiatic continent, nor in Formosa. I have specimens collected on Pratas 

 Island, in the China Sea between Hongkong and Luzon, sent to me by 

 Mr. Kawakami of Taihoku, Formosa. Both Miquel and Boerlage record 

 it as Malayan, but without citing any locality or localities for it. It is 

 found in the Laccadive Islands, in German New Guinea, and on the 

 islands off the north-east coast of Australia, while it seems to be widely 

 distributed in southern Polynesia. 



MELIACEAE. 



AGLAIA Lour. 

 AGLAIA BRACHYBOTRYS sp. nov. § Euaglaia. 



Arbor circiter 8 m alta, ramilis subtus foliis inflorescentiisque 

 minute subferrugineo-ciliato-lepidotis; foliis alternis, circiter 40 

 cm longis, foliolis membranaceis, alternis, circiter 7, oblongo- 

 ovatis vel oblongo-ellipticis, usque ad 17 cm longis; paniculis 

 lateralibus, circiter 9 cm longis; floribus racemose dispositis, 

 brevissime pedicellatis, 4-meris, tubo stamineo cum petalis di- 

 stincte coalito. 



A tree about 8 m high. Branches pale-brown, terete, densely 

 covered with minute ciliate-lepidote scales. Leaves alternate, 

 unequally pinnate, about 40 cm long, the petiole, rachis, and 



' This Journal 3 (1908) Bot. 73-84. 



