IX, c. 4 Merrill: Philippine Plants, X 297 



A tree about 20 m high, glabrous except the buds and the 

 inflorescence. Branches stout, olivaceous. Leaves opposite, 

 their petioles 5 to 10 cm long, the leaflets 3, oblong to oblong- 

 elliptic, or sometimes narrowly elliptic-obovate, subcoriaceous, 

 pale and somewhat shining when dry, 15 to 22 cm long, 6 to 12 

 cm wide, the apex somewhat acuminate, the acumen short, the 

 base narrowed, usually somewhat decurrent-acuminate, sessile or 

 the petiolules very short ; lateral nerves about 20 on each side of 

 the midrib, prominent. Inflorescence of solitary, axillary, 

 densely many flowered, peduncled, somewhat pubescent cymes 5 

 to 8 cm long, 6 to 11 cm in diameter, all parts more or less gray- 

 pubescent. Flowers pink, their pedicels pubescent, 5 mm long. 

 Sepals 4, orbicular-reniform, rounded, 1.5 mm in diameter. 

 Petals 4, pink, ovate to ovate-elliptic, acute, 5 mm long, 3 mm 

 wide, appressed-pubescent inside. Stamens 4; filaments 6 to 

 7 mm long, glabrous, the upper 1 mm much narrowed and 

 abruptly inflexed ; anthers versatile, oblong, 2 mm long. Ovary 

 deeply 4-lobed, densely villous, the cells 2-ovuled ; style glabrous, 

 6 mm long; stigma punctiform. Cymes in fruit about 7 cm in 

 diameter, rather dense, the c'occi cartilaginous, about 5 mm long, 

 the seeds jet black, shining, ellipsoid, about 3 mm long. 



Luzon, Province of Laguna, Mount Maquiling, For. Bur. 20653 (type), 

 20880 Villamil, October, 1913, February, 1914, in forests, altitude 300 to 

 350 meters, the former in flower, the latter in fruit and from the same 

 tree; also C. F. Baker H9, November, 1912, detached inflorescence only. 



A very striking species not closely allied to any other known Philippine 

 form, readily recognizable by its short, dense, hemispheric, many flowered, 

 short-peduncled cymes, the flowers retaining their pink color long after 

 being dried. 



EVODIA TERNATA (Blanco) comb. nov. 



Orixa ternata Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 62, ed. 2 (1845) 45, ed. 3, 1: 84. 



Evodia robusta F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 34, non Hook. f. 



Evodia triphylla Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 68, non DC. 



For this Philippine form that has been confused with two different 

 species, Evodia robusta Hook. f. and E. triphylla DC, it appears necessary 

 to establish a new name, for it is apparently a distinct and valid species. 

 I have rather arbitrarily typified the species by Blanco's Orixa ternata, 

 transferring his specific name to the proper genus. It is, however, impos- 

 sible definitely to determine whether or not the material referred here, 

 and below described, is really the species Blanco described, due to his im- 

 perfect description. So far as his description goes, it applies, not only in 

 the characters ascribed by him to the species, but also in its time of 

 flowering. It is, moreover, the only form known to me to which Blanco's 

 Orixa ternata can be referred. F.-Villar's reduction of Orixa ternata to 

 Evodia robusta Hook. f. is manifestly incorrect, for the latter species does 

 not occur in the Philippines. The following description is typified by Lei- 

 berg 6133. 



