PHILIPPINE PLANTS, IX. 279 



TOON A Roemer. 

 TOONA PAUCIJUGA sp. nov. 



Species ut videtur T. calantas Merr. & Rolfe valde affinis, 

 differt foliolis paucioribus, 7 vel 9, glabris, subtus in axillis 

 venarum prominente glandulosis. 



A tree reaching a height of about 10 m, glabrous throughout 

 (inflorescence unknown). Branches brownish, glabrous, some- 

 what striate when dry. Leaves alternate, odd-pinnate, 30 to 

 35 cm long. Leaflets 7 or 9, oblong-ovate to elliptic-ovate, firmly 

 chartaceous, brownish and of nearly the same color on both 

 surfaces when dry, shining, the median ones 10 to 13 cm long, 

 5 to 6 cm wide, the lower ones somewhat smaller, opposite or 

 subopposite, entire, the base inequilateral, rounded, or on one 

 side of the lamina sometimes acute or acuminate, the apex dis- 

 tinctly acuminate, the acumen usually somewhat falcate, blunt; 

 lateral nerves 10 to 12 on each side of the midrib, distinct, their 

 axils on the lower surface with distinct glands; petiolules 1 cm 

 long or less. Flowers unknown. Panicles terminal, in fruit 

 about 12 cm long. Mature fruits quite similar to those of Toona 

 calantas, about 3.5 cm long. 



Leyte, between Dolores and Ormoc, in forests at an altitude of about 

 100 m, For. Bur. 12618 Rosenbluth, February, 109, locally known as calantas. 



A species well characterized by its few leaflets which are prominently 

 glandular in the axils of the veins on the lower surface. 



DICHAPETALACEAE. 



DICHAPETALUM Thou. 

 DICHAPETALUM CILIATUM sp. nov. 



Frutex scandens, ramulis petiolis foliisque utrinque ad costa 

 nervisque insigniter ciliatis; foliis oblongis vel oblongo-ellipticis, 

 usque ad 14 cm longis, chartaceis, apice acuminatis, basi acutis 

 vel subrotundatis, nervis utrinque circiter 8, prominentibus ; 

 cymis axillaribus, brevibus, petiolo subaequantibus ; fructibus 

 dense griseo-villosis, 14 mm longis, 2-locellatis. 



A scandent shrub, prominently ciliate with long, spreading 

 hairs. Branches slender, terete, reddish-brown when dry, the 

 older ones nearly glabrous, the younger ones prominently ciliate 

 with rather pale hairs. Leaves oblong to elliptic-oblong, 8 to 

 14 cm long, 3 to 6 cm wide, chartaceous, somewhat narrowed 

 to the acute or subrounded base, the apex rather slenderly and 

 sharply acuminate, the acumen 0.5 to 1.5 cm long, the margins 

 and the midrib and nerves on both surfaces prominently ciliate 

 with spreading, pale or somewhat brownish hairs, otherwise 



