PHILIPPINE PLANTS, IX. 319 



ALANGIACEAE. i: 



ALANGIUM Lam. *f 



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 ALANGIUM BRACHYANTHUM sp. nov. % Eualangium. 



Arbor circiter 7 m alta ; floribus in ramis def oliatis, axillaribus, 

 fasciculatis, brevissime pedicellatis, petalis 6, 1.5 cm longis, 

 pubescentibus ; staminibus 15, basi vix curvato-geniculatis. 



A tree about 7 m high. Branches and branchlets light-gray 

 or somewhat reddish, slender, glabrous. Flowers yellowish- 

 white, very fragrant, numerous, appearing before the leaves, 

 axillary, fasciculate, several at each node, the fascicles rather 

 congested; pedicels very short, pubescent. Calyx 2 mm long, 

 3 mm in diameter, pubescent, obscurely 6-toothed. Petals 6, 1.5 

 cm long, about 1 mm wide, appressed-pubescent externally. 

 Stamens 15; filaments slender, 7 to 8 mm long, not inflexed or 

 geniculate at the base, somewhat villous at about the middle; 

 anthers 6 to 7 mm long; style as long as the petals; stigma 

 globose. 



Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Pagsalam, For. Bur. 103^1 Cur- 

 ran, April 9, 1908, in beach forests, altitude about 5 m, locally 

 known as malatapay. 



I have refrained from describing the leaves of this apparently very dis- 

 tinct species, as Mr. Curran notes that they were picked up on the ground 

 from under the tree, there being no leaves on the tree at the time it was 

 found in flower. The species is manifestly allied to Alangium salviifolium 

 (L. f.) Wangerin, but differs remarkably in its much smaller flowers and in 

 its fewer stamens. The detached leaves with the specimen, which however 

 may belong to a different plant, are penninerved, not at all 3-nerved from 

 the base. 



ALANGIUM LONGIFLORUM sp. nov. § Eualangium. 



Species A. salviifolio (L.) Wangerin affinis, differt floribus 

 5-meris, multo longioribus, staminibus paucioribus, 16 vel 17, 

 petalis usque ad 4.5 cm longis. 



A deciduous tree 7 to 10 m high. Branches terete, grayish- 

 brown, glabrous, the ultimate ones softly pubescent with short, 

 pale-brown or olivaceous hairs. Leaves appearing after the 

 flowers, oblong to obovate-oblong, membranaceous or chartaceous, 

 ultimately glabrous on both surfaces, when young slightly 

 pubescent on the nerves beneath, 10 to 15 cm long, 4 to 7 cm 

 wide, entire, equilateral, the base rather abruptly rounded or 

 obtuse, distinctly 3-nerved, the apex prominently acuminate; 

 lateral nerves above the basal pair 4 or 5 on each side of the 



