306 The Philippine Jommal of Science 1914 



included. Disk cylindric, truncate, about 1.5 mm high, villous. 

 Ovary sparingly appressed-pubescent; style glabrous, 7 mm long. 

 Fruit (immature) globose or obovoid, about 3 cm in diameter. 



Luzon, Province of Laguna, Gumihan, near San Antonio, Phil. PL lUOU 

 Ramos (type), February 27, 1913, in forests; between San Antonio and 

 Paete, Bur. Sci. 15102 Ravios, June, 1912. 



A species manifestly in the group with the Malayan Dysoxylum allia- 

 ceum Blume, but differing from that and allied forms in many characters. 

 The strongly shining leaves, with prominent primary nerves and entirely 

 obsolete reticulations, and the densely flowered panicles are characteristic. 

 The dried flowering specimens have a strong, very disagreeable odor that 

 is characteristic of various parts of many species in the genus. 



TURRAEA Linnaeus 

 TURRAEA MEMBRANACEA sp. nov. § Euturraea. 



Arbor parva, circiter 5 m alta ; f oliis membranaceis, ovatis vel 

 oblongo-ovatis, utrinque angustatis, acuminatis, usque ad 9 cm 

 longis, nervis utrinque circiter 7, vetustioribus glabris vel sub- 

 glabris; racemis axillaribus, brevissimis, paucifloris; floribus 5- 

 meris, circiter 2.5 cm longis, tubo apice 10-laciniato, ovario glabro, 

 5-loculare; fructibus 5-locellatis, valvis valde recurvatis, crassis- 

 sime coriaceis, 12 mm longis. 



A small tree 4 to 5 m high, deciduous, the branchlets, young 

 leaves, and inflorescence more or less pubescent, in age nearly 

 glabrous. Branches slender, terete, glabrous, brown or reddish- 

 brown, the branchlets gray-pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate, 

 membranaceous, ovate to oblong-ovate, subequally narrowed to 

 the acute base and to the acuminate apex, 5 to 10 cm long, 2 to 

 4 cm wide, when young slightly pubescent on both surfaces, at 

 least on the midrib and nerves, in age nearly or quite glabrous, 

 slightly shining; lateral nerves about 7 on each side of the midrib, 

 prominent; petioles about 1 cm long, pubescent. Racemes axil- 

 lary, very short, pubescent, few-flowered, the flowers appearing 

 with the new leaves, the rachis of the racemes 5 mm long or 

 less. Flowers yellowish-white, their pedicels slender, 2 cm long. 

 Calyx cup-shaped, about 3 mm long, pubescent, 5-toothed, the 

 teeth ovate-acute, about 1.5 mm long. Petals 5, free to the 

 base, 2 to 2.3 cm long, linear, above somewhat narrowly spatulate, 

 below 1 mm wide, near the apex 3 to 3.5 mm wide, glabrous. 

 Staminal-tube glabrous, slender, 2.5 cm long, laciniate-lobed at 

 the apex, the lobes thin, linear, acuminate, about 2 mm long, 

 alternating with the anthers ; anthers subsessile, attached appar- 

 ently at the very apex of the tube, 1.8 mm long. Ovary ovoid, 

 5-celled ; cells 2-ovuled ; style slender, exserted 6 to 7 mm beyond 

 the end of the staminal-tube; stigma about 2 mm in diameter. 



