PHILIPPINE PLANTS, IX. 287 



broadly rounded, the base usually narrowed, acute, glabrous and 

 shining on both surfaces, when dry the upper surface rather 

 pale, the lower one much paler and somewhat glaucous; nerves 

 about 8 on each side of the midrib, curved-ascending, anastomos- 

 ing, distinct on the lower surface, the primary reticulations lax, 

 leaving the nerves at right angles, the ultimate reticulations 

 obscure; petioles 5 to 7 mm long. Panicles terminal and in the 

 upper axils, sparingly hirsute with short, scattered, pale-brownish 

 hairs, lax, pyramidal, 12 to 20 cm in length, the lower branches 

 up to 10 cm in length. Male flowers in scattered fascicles which 

 are racemosely arranged on the ultimate branches, their pedicels 

 slender, 1.5 to 2 mm long, the bracteoles ovate-lanceolate, 0.5 

 mm long. Calyx 1.5 mm in diameter, 5-lobed, the lobes ovate, 

 obtuse, 0.5 mm long. Petals oblong-ovate, obtuse or acute, 1.8 

 mm long. Disk somewhat ferruginous-pubescent. Anthers 1 

 mm long. 



Palawan, Mount Victoria, Bur. Sci. 570 Foxworthy March 25, 1906, on 

 river banks, altitude about 180 meters. 



A very distinct species, characterized by its small, few-nerved leaves 

 which are broadly rounded at their apices, and by its lax panicles, the 

 flowers being distinctly and slenderly pedicelled. 



SEMECARPUS PILOSA sp. nov. 



Arbor parva ut videtur S. cuneiformis afRnis, differt foliis sub- 

 tus densissime pilosis, paniculis ferrugineo-pilosis. 



A tree apparently of small size, the branches stout, pubescent. 

 Leaves more or less crowded at the ends of the branches, thickly 

 coriaceous, oblong-obovate, 9 to 20 cm long, 4 to 8 cm wide, the 

 apex broadly rounded, sometimes retuse, narrowed below to the 

 abruptly obtuse, not at all decurrent base, the upper surface 

 somewhat grayish when dry, shining, quite glabrous except for 

 the more or less pubescent midrib, the lower surface densely 

 pilose, paler than the upper one; lateral nerves 13 to 16 on 

 each side of the midrib, very prominent, spreading, somewhat 

 curved and anastomosing, the secondary nerves leaving them 

 at right angles, subparallel, distinct; petioles stout, pubescent, 

 8 to 10 mm long. Panicles terminal, pyramidal, ferruginous- 

 pilose, about 15 cm long, the branches spreading, the lower ones 

 about 8 cm in length. Petals 5, ovate to oblong-ovate, somewhat 

 acuminate, 2.5 mm long. Ovary ovoid, densely fulvous-villous. 

 Hypocarpium, when fresh, orange-yellow, when dry about 4 

 mm long nearly as thick as the drupe, more or less ferruginous- 

 pubescent, the drupe slightly compressed, obliquely ovoid, obtuse. 



