278 MERRILL. 



glabrous throughout, and by its very diffuse, ample, many-flowered panicles 

 which are more or less lepidote and puberulent. It does not seem to me 

 to be closely allied to any of the previously described species of the genus, 

 although in many respects it resembles Aglaia harmsiana Perk. 



DYSOXYLUM Blume. 



DYSOXYLUM LAXUM sp. nov. § Eudysoxylum. 



Arbor circiter 10 m alta, partibus junioribus puberulis ex- 

 ceptis glabra; foliis alternis, abrupte pinnatis, circiter 30 cm 

 longis, 4- vel 5-jugis, foliolis oblongo-ovatis ad late oblongo- 

 lanceolatis, valde acuminatis, in siccitate pallidis; paniculis axil- 

 laribus, folia aequantibus, parce ramosis, paucifloribus ; floribus 

 4-meris, circiter 1 cm longis, petalis supra puberulis. 



A tree about 10 m high, glabrous except the somewhat pu- 

 berulent younger parts. Branches terete, brownish, lenticellate, 

 the growing parts grayish and somewhat puberulent. Leaves 

 alternate, evenly pinnate, about 30 cm long, the rachis and petiole 

 slender, more or less puberulent, about 15 cm long; leaflets 4 or 

 5 pairs, the uppermost ones opposite, the others subopposite or 

 alternate, thinly chartaceous or membranaceous, pale when dry, 

 concolorous, slightly shining, oblong-ovate to broadly oblong- 

 lanceolate or somewhat elliptic-oblanceolate, the lower ones in- 

 equilateral at the base, 4 to 5 cm long, the upper ones equilateral, 

 gradually larger and up to 15 cm long and 4.5 cm wide, base 

 acute, apex rather slenderly acuminate; lateral nerves about 

 10 pairs, slender; petiolules 2 to 5 mm long. Panicles axillary, 

 slender, as long as the leaves, lax, each with very few spreading 

 branches, the lower branches 6 cm long or less and each bearing 

 2 or 3 flowers, the slender pedicels up to 1.5 cm long. Flowers 

 pinkish, 4-merous. Calyx narrowly funnel-shaped, narrowed 

 below, about 5 mm long, puberulent, obscurely toothed. Petals 

 narrowly oblong, obtuse, about 8 mm long, glabrous on the back 

 except at the apex where they are somewhat puberulent. Sta- 

 minal tube cylindric, free or nearly so, 6 mm long, somewhat 

 toothed at the apex. Stamens 8, inserted at the top of the 

 tube, included. Disk cylindric, 4-toothed, about 2.5 mm long, 

 glabrous. Ovary hirsute; style 5 mm long, slender, glabrous. 

 Young fruits obovoid or somewhat ellipsoid, 1.5 cm long, gla- 

 brous, apiculate at the apex. 



Camiguin de Mindanao, Bur. Sci. H694 Ratnos, March 28, 1912, in 

 forests at Panaytayum. 



A very distinct and characteristic species recognizable by its lax, very 

 few-flowered panicles, long-pedicelled flowers, etc. It is probably most 

 closely allied to Dysoxylmn pauciflorum Merr., but is entirely distinct from 

 that species. 



