284 MERRILL. 



base, of about the same color on both surfaces when dry, rather 

 pale, the upper one shining, the lower more or less glaucous, 

 dull; nerves about 20 on each side of the midrib, very promi- 

 nent on the lower surface, spreading, parallel, anastomosing 

 near the margins, the primary reticulations leaving the veins 

 at right angles and anastomosing with intermediate secondary 

 veins, the ultimate reticulations not prominent; petioles stout, 



4 to 5 cm long. Panicles terminal, about as long as the leaves, 

 uniformly and somewhat olivaceous-puberulent, narrowly pyra- 

 midal, the lower branches 5 to 6 cm long. Flowers unknown, 

 but the persistent sepals 5. Hypocarpium 5 to 6 mm long, 2 

 mm wide at the base, 4 mm wide at the apex, longitudinally 

 obscurely sulcate, slightly puberulent. Drupe (very immature) 

 7 mm long, 5 mm in diameter, oblong-ovoid, slightly compressed, 

 sparingly pubescent at the apex, apparently becoming entirely 

 glabrous. 



Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Quinatacutan River, Bur. Sci. 13163 Fox- 

 worthy & Ramos, March, 1911, in forests along the river. 



Apparently a very characteristic species, its distinguishing features being 

 its very coriaceous, glabrous, comparatively long-petioled, prominently nerved 

 leaves, its narrowly pyramidal puberulent panicles, its hypocarpium much 

 longer than wide, and its oblong-ovoid drupes. 



SEMECARPUS LANCEOLATA sp. nov. 



Arbor parva, glabra; foliis crasse coriaceis, lanceolatis, usque 

 ad 30 cm longis, utrinque angustatis, apice obtusis, basi acutis, 

 nervis utrinque circiter 22, baud prominentibus, in siccitate 

 supra nitidis, subtus pallidioribus, vix glaucescentibus, petiolo 



5 ad 7 cm longo; paniculis glabris, ramis inferioribus circiter 

 13 cm longis, drupis reniformibus, compressis, leviter carinatis, 

 2 cm latis. 



A small tree, apparently glabrous throughout (inflorescence 

 and flowers not seen.) Branches stout, the ultimate ones 1.5 

 cm in diameter, lenticellate, dark-brown, shining. Leaves lan- 

 ceolate, 20 to 30 cm long, 4 to 7 cm wide, narrowed at both 

 ends, the apex obtuse, base acute, thickly coriaceous, when dry 

 shining, the upper surface rather pale, the lower one paler than 

 the upper but not glaucous ; lateral nerves about 22 on each side 

 of the midrib, not prominent, spreading, faintly anastomosing, 

 the reticulations very irregular, the ultimate ones dense, indis- 

 tinct; petioles 5 to 7 cm long. Panicles terminal, in fruit quite 

 glabrous, the lower branches about 12 cm long. Flowers un- 

 known. Hypocarpium, when dry, about 1 cm long, 8 mm wide 

 at the tip, narrowed below, apparently very much larger when 

 fresh, the peduncle usually about 1 cm long. Drupe reniform, 



