IX, c. 4 Merrill: Philippine Plants, X 295 



branches 7 cm long or less, the upper gradually shorter. Flowers 

 apparently numerous, somewhat crowded at the apices of the 

 branchlets, 5-merous, the pedicels very short. Calyx shallow, 

 1.5 mm in diameter, 5-lobed, lobes broadly ovate, acute. Petals 

 5, imbricate, elliptic-ovate, 2.5 mm long, glandular, glabrous. 

 Stamens 10, somewhat 2-seriate; anthers oblong, 1 to 1.2 mm 

 long, much longer than the filaments which are somewhat 

 enlarged below. Ovary cylindric, prominently rugose, glabrous, 

 5-celled. Fruit globose, fleshy, up to 1 cm in diameter, 

 with from 1 to 3 seeds; seeds about 7 mm long, the cotyledons 

 thick, plano-convex. 



Palawan, Mount Capoas, Merrill 95H, April 21, 1913, on talus slopes, 

 steep forested ridge, altitude about 800 meters. 



A species well characterized by its unusually large leaves and leaflets. 



EVODIA Forster 

 EVODIA LAXIRETA sp. nov. 



Frutex vel arbor parva, glabra; foliis 3-foliolatis, foliolis 

 coriaceis vel subcoriaceis, nitidis, anguste oblongo-obovatis, usque 

 ad 12 cm longis, 3 ad 5 cm latis, obtusis, basi sensim angustatis, 

 cuneatis; nervis lateralibus utrinque circiter 10, prominentibus, 

 reticulis laxis, distinctis; inflorescentiis in axillis superioribus, 

 anguste paniculatis, circiter 5 cm longis; coccis 1 vel 2, ovoideis 

 vel ellipsoideis, circiter 4 mm longis. 



A shrub or small tree, quite glabrous (flowers not seen) ; 

 branches terete, pale-brownish, shining, rather stout, wrinkled 

 when dry. Leaves 3-foliolate, the petioles 2.5 to 5 cm long; 

 leaflets narrowly oblong-obovate, coriaceous or subcoriaceous, 

 when dry prominently shining and of about the same color on both 

 surfaces, 9 to 12 cm long, 3 to 5 cm wide, entire, the apex obtuse, 

 below gradually narrowed to the acute or cuneate base; lateral 

 nerves about 10 on each side of the midrib, prominent, anas- 

 tomosing, the reticulations lax, the nerves and reticulations 

 about equally prominent on both surfaces ; petioles about 1.5 cm 

 long. Panicles solitary, in the upper axils, narrowly pyramidal, 

 about 5 cm long, shortly peduncled, the branches few, the lower 

 ones 1.5 cm long or less. Fruit of 1 or 2 cocci, the cocci ovoid to 

 ellipsoid, rounded, about 4 mm long. 



Mindanao, Bukidnon Subprovince, Bur. Sci. 2H07 Eacritor, July 27, 

 1913, locally known as pamintang guhat. 



Thus species may prove to belong to the genus Melicope when the flowers 

 are known. In general it resembles Melicope triphylla (Lam.) Merr., but 

 differs in its thicker leaves which are prominently and laxly reticulate 

 on both surfaces. 



