PHILIPPINE PLANTS, IX. 285 



compressed, about 2 cm wide, 1.3 cm long, somewhat keeled, 

 nearly or quite smooth when dry. 



Luzon, Abra Subprovince, Dolores, Bur Sci. 7083 Ramos, February, 1909, 

 in forests, fruit red, 



A very characteristic species, disting:uishable by being entirely glabrous, 

 by its lanceolate, elongated, coriaceous, long-petioled leaves, and by its 

 comparatively large drupes which are reniform and distinctly keeled. 



SEMECARPUS MAGABOTRYS sp. nov. 



Arbor dioica ramulis subtus foliis inflorescentiisque ferrugi- 

 neo- vel pallide f ulvo-villosis ; foliis anguste oblongo-obovatis ad 

 obovato-lanceolatis, crasse coriaceis, usque ad 22 cm longis, apice 

 obtusis, acutis, vel rotundatis, basi angustatis, abrupte obtusis 

 vel rotundatis, supra glabris, in siccitate nitidis, subtus pallidis; 

 nervis primariis utrinque circiter 22, prominentibus ; paniculis 

 terminalibus, 40 ad 50 cm longis. 



A dioecious tree probably of small or medium size. Branches 

 stout, brownish, the younger ones rather prominently pubescent. 

 Leaves narrowly oblong-obovate to obovate-lanceolate, thickly 

 coriaceous, the apex acute, blunt, or rounded, the base narrowed 

 and abruptly obtuse or rounded, 15 to 22 cm long, 5 to 8 cm 

 wide, when dry the upper surface rather pale, shining, glabrous, 

 the lower surface much paler than the upper one, more or less 

 glaucous, and rather densely villous with pale-brownish hairs; 

 lateral nerves about 22 on each side of the midrib, very promi- 

 nent on the lower surface, spreading or somewhat ascending, 

 the secondary ones subparallel, - prominent, the ultimate reticu- 

 lations distinct; petioles stout, pubescent, 1 to 1.5 cm long. 

 Panicles pyramidal, terminal, 40 to 50 cm in length, ferruginous- 

 or fulvous-villous, the flowers very numerous. Male flowers 

 fascicled or glomerate at the nodes, the calyx 2 mm in diameter, 

 pubescent, 5-toothed, the teeth short, triangular. Petals 5, 

 oblong-ovate, acute, 2 mm long. Disk about 1.3 mm in diameter. 

 Female flowers: Calyx pubescent, 3 mm in diameter. Petals 5, 

 oblong-ovate, acute, 3 mm long. Ovary depressed, densely fer- 

 ruginous-villous, about 2 mm in diameter. Young fruit with 

 pedicels 1.5 to 2 cm in length, the hypocarpium rather densely 

 ferruginous-villous, 4 mm long, about 5 mm wide when dry, 

 the drupe somewhat compressed (immature), obovoid, about 7 

 mm long, with scattered, apparently deciduous, ferruginous hairs, 

 apparently ultimately glabrous. 



Luzon, Province of Nueva Vizcaya, For. Bur. 22359 Alvarez, January, 

 1911, one specimen with male flowers, one with female flowers (type), and 

 one with immature fruits. 



