IX. c. 4 Merrill: Philippine Plants, X 303 



long, 3.5 to 5 cm wide, acuminate, base cordate, the upper 

 surface brown when dry, strongly shining, glabrous or slightly 

 stellate-pubescent along the midrib; lateral nerves straight, 

 parallel, distinct, 20 to 27 on each side of the midrib; petiolules 

 pubescent, about 3 mm long. Panicles axillary, when young 

 less than one-half as long as the leaves, peduncled, stellate- 

 pubescent, about 25 cm long, the primary branches less than 4 cm 

 long, densely many flowered, the flowers glomerate. Flowers 

 5-merous, sessile, the buds globose, 1.5 mm in diameter, the calyx 

 densely stellate-pubescent externally. Petals 5, orbicular, gla- 

 brous, rounded, about 1 mm long. Staminal tube depressed- 

 globose, free from the petals, truncate, the anthers inserted at 

 the base, reaching the orifice but hardly protruding, 0.6 mm 

 long. 



Luzon, Province of Cagayan, Gattaran, in open forests, altitude about 

 20 meters, For. Bur. 15205 Bernardo, May 27, 1912. 



A species manifestly belonging in the group with Aglaia argentea Blume, 

 but entirely distinct from that species in its floral, vegetative, and indu- 

 mentum characters. 



AGLAIA TRUNCI FLORA sp. nov. § Euaglaia? 



Arbor circiter 18 m alta ramulis inflorescentiis petiolis subtus 

 foliisque ad costa dense stellato-tomentosis ; f oliis imparipinnatis, 

 foliolis 7, ellipticis vel oblongo-ellipticis, usque ad 25 cm longis, 

 subcoriaceis, basi obtusis vel subrotundatis, apice abrupte sub- 

 caudato-acuminatis, nervis utrinque circiter 17; paniculis cauli- 

 nis, circiter 25 cm longis, fructibus ellipsoideis, circiter 2 cm 

 longis. 



A tree about 18 m high, the branches, branchlets, inflorescence, 

 petioles, rachis, petiolules, and midribs on the lower surfaces of 

 the leaflets densely stellate-tomentose with brown hairs, not at 

 all lepidote. Branches terete, the ultimate ones about 4 mm in 

 diameter. Leaves alternate, rather distant, about 45 cm long; 

 leaflets 7, the lower pair less than one-half as large as the 

 upper ones, ovate, the others elliptic to oblong-elliptic, up to 25 cm 

 long, and 10 cm wide, rather pale-brownish when dry, the upper 

 surface glabrous and slightly shining, the lower surface of the 

 same color, nearly glabrous except for the stellate-tomentose 

 midribs, the base obtuse or rounded, the apex abruptly subcau- 

 date-acuminate, the acumen narrow, blunt, about 1.5 cm long; 

 lateral nerves about 17 on each side of the midrib, very prominent 

 on the lower surface, obscurely anastomosing, the reticulations 

 lax, indistinct; petiolules stout, about 8 mm long. Panicles 

 from the trunk, stellate-tomentose, 20 to 25 cm long. Flowers 

 not seen (5-merous). Fruit ellipsoid, brown when dry, minutely 



