282 MERRILL. 



culate, imbricate, about 4 mm long. Ovary ovoid, pubescent, 

 1-celled, with a single ovule pendulous from near the apex, 

 tapering into the short style ; style trifid, sometimes bifid ; stigmas 

 capitate; rudimentary stamens 4, inserted outside of the disk, 

 the filaments 1 mm long, the anthers as long as the filaments. 

 Male flowers not seen. Fruit densely villous, about 2 cm long, 

 the accrescent calyx-tube about 2.5 cm in diameter, 1.5 cm long, 

 the lobes when young reddish or reddish-brown, when mature 

 brown, narrowly oblong, rounded, up to 10 cm long, 1 to 1.2 cm 

 wide. 



Cebu, Buacao, Bur. Sci. 11109 Ramos, March 19, 1912 (type), with 

 leaves, immature fruits, and female flowers. TiCAO, For. Bur. 12530, 1251^0 

 Rosenbluth, December, 1908, sterile specimens. Masbate, For. Bur. 21030 

 Darling, May, 1910, sterile, Foxworthy. Negros, For. Bur. 17356 Curran, 

 September, 1909, seedlings and fallen fruits. Tablas, For. Bur. 19526 Jose. 

 MiNDORO, For. Bur. 9831 Merritt. 



This very characteristic species is most closely allied to Parishia insignis 

 Hook. f. of Tenasserim and the Andaman Islands, and Penang, although 

 quite different from that species. It is the first representative of the genus 

 to be found in the Philippines. 



Rosenbluth notes that it is the most common tree species on the Island 

 of Ticao, especially abundant on dry rocky hills, and that the trunk has 

 a clear length seldom exceeding 15 meters. He notes also that it has 

 abundant white juice in the bark and leaves. In Ticao the lumber is not 

 used by the natives, but in Masbate it is used for making bancas, that is, 

 dugout canoes. Mr. Elmer has noted on two of the sheets of sterile 

 specimens " Anacardiaceae fide Radlkofer, see Elmer 1216^." The inference 

 is that Elmer 121 64-, a number apparently undistributed as yet, represents 

 the same species. Our material shows conclusively that the plant is refer- 

 able to Parishia, and the specific name is taken from its current Visayan 

 name, maldbog. 



SEMECARPUS L. 



8EMECARPUS ACUM INATISSI M A sp. nov. 



Arbor parva (vel frutex?) inflorescentis exceptis glabra vel 

 subglabra; foliis anguste oblongo-ellipticis ad oblongo-oblanceo- 

 latis, chartaceis vel subcoriaceis, usque ad 20 cm longis, basi 

 angustatis, acutis, apice subcaudato-acuminatis, subtus pallidio- 

 ribus baud glaucescentibus, nervis prominentibus, utrinque 

 circiter 16; paniculis terminalibus, brevibus, angustis, quam 

 folia multo brevioribus, parce pubescentibus vel puberulis, 

 floribus masculinis parvis, 5-meris. 



A small tree or a shrub, except the inflorescence nearly gla- 

 brous. Branches terete, slender, grayish. Leaves oblong- 

 elliptic to oblong-oblanceolate or narrowly oblong-ovate, 13 to 

 20 cm long, 4.5 to 6 cm wide, chartaceous or subcoriaceous, 

 narrowed from about the middle or below to the acute base. 



