THE PHILIPPINE 



Journal of Science 



C. Botany 



Vol. IX AUGUST, 1914 No. 4 



NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, X 



By E. D. Merrill * 



{From the Botanical Section of the Biological Laboratory, Bureau of 



Science, Manila, P. I.) 



(Concluded) 

 RUTACEAE 



ATALANTIA Correa 

 ATALANTIA MARITIMA sp. nov. 



Species A. distichae (Blanco) Merr. affinis, differt foliis ellip- 

 ticis baud prominente acuminatis, margine leviter crenulatis 

 vix integris. 



An unarmed shrub or small tree 2 to 6 m in height, glabrous 

 except the inflorescence, or the younger branchlets sometimes 

 slightly pubescent. Branches terete, slender, usually reddish- 

 brown when dry, the branchlets greenish or straw-colored and 

 more or less angled or compressed near the nodes. Leaves 

 alternate, subcoriaceous or coriaceous, elliptic to ovate-elliptic, 

 shining, rather pale when dry and of nearly the same color 

 on both surfaces, 5 to 10 cm long, 2.5 to 6 cm wide, subequally 

 narrowed at both ends, the base acute, the apex obtuse and dis- 

 tinctly retuse, not gradually narrowed to an acumen, the margins 

 above distinctly but distantly crenulate, not entire, glandular- 

 punctate beneath; lateral nerves very numerous, close; petioles 

 5 to 10 mm long. Panicles axillary and terminal, 3 to 6 cm long, 

 pubescent, many-flowered, narrow, the lower branches 2 cm long 

 or less, the panicles usually larger in fruit and up to 11 cm in 

 length. Flowers 5-merous. Caljrx pubescent, cup-shaped, about 



* Associate Professor of Botany, University of the Philippines, Manila, 

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