PHILIPPINE PLANTS, IX. 277 



Stamens 5, inserted on the base of the tube, included, the anthers 

 0.5 mm long. Fruit unknown. 



Luzon, Province of Bataan, Limay Peak, Mariveles Mountain, For. Bur. 

 17580 Curran, November, 1909, on dry forested ridges at an altitude of 

 about 700 m. 



A species well characterized by its lanceolate leaflets, its small ciliate- 

 lepidote scales on the inflorescence, petioles, etc., its spicately arranged, 

 sessile or subsessile flowers, and very short staminal-tube. According to De- 

 Candolle's scheme of classification it seems to be allied to Aglaia llanosiana 

 C. DC, but in all respects is quite different from that species. 



AGLAIA DIFFUSA sp. nov. § Hearnia. 



Arbor circiter 25 m alta, inflorescentiis exceptis glabra ; f oliis 

 alternis, imparipinnatis, 3-jugatis, vix 30 cm longis; foliolis 

 lanceolatis vel elliptico-lanceolatis, utrinque acuminatis aequi- 

 lateralibusque, usque ad 44 cm longis, nervis utrinque circiter 

 10; paniculis axillaribus, folia aequantibus, diffusis, multifloris, 

 ramis primariis patulis, usque ad 15 cm longis, plus minusve 

 lepidotis vel puberulis; floribus 5-meris, pedicellatis, racemose 

 dispositis. 



A tree about 25 m high, glabrous except the somewhat lepidote 

 and puberulent inflorescence. Branches terete, brownish, gla- 

 brous, the ultimate ones 4 mm in diameter or less. Leaves 

 alternate, less than 30 cm long, the petiole and rachis 10 to 13 

 cm long. Leaflets 7, the lateral ones opposite, lanceolate or 

 elliptic-lanceolate, 9 to 14 cm long, 2 to 4 cm wide, narrowed 

 and acuminate at both ends, rather pale and somewhat shining 

 when dry, of about the same color on both surfaces, glabrous, 

 or the midrib beneath with few, small scales; nerves about 10 

 on each side of the midrib, slender, not very prominent, the 

 reticulations lax, subobsolete; petiolules 4 to 6 mm long. Pani- 

 cles in the upper axils, usually but one on a branchlet, diffuse, 

 about 30 cm long, the lower branches spreading, 15 cm long, 

 very many flowered, the rachis somewhat brown-lepidote, the 

 ultimate branchlets somewhat brown-puberulent. Flowers yel- 

 low, racemosely arranged on the ultimate branchlets, scattered, 

 their pedicels 1 to 1.5 mm long. Calyx-teeth 5, broadly ovate, 

 obtuse, 0.3 mm long, ciliate. Petals 5, glabrous, oblong-obovate 

 to obovate, obtuse, 1.6 mm long, free from the staminal-tube. 

 Staminal-tube broadly obovoid, truncate, about 1 mm long and 

 1.2 mm in diameter. Stamens 5, inserted on the edge of the 

 staminal-tube, slightly inflexed, 0.25 mm long. 



Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Guinayangan, For. Bur. 1868^ Darling, 

 November 21, 1909. In forests at an altitude of about 50 m, locally known 

 as malasaguin. 



A species of the section Hearnia, well characterized by being nearly 



