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the reticulations lax, slender, rather obscure; petiolules of the 

 lateral leaflets 2 to 3 mm long, that of the terminal one much 

 longer. Inflorescence in the upper axils and subterminal, uni- 

 formly pubescent with short, rather closely arranged hairs, the 

 common peduncles thick, flattened, about 5 mm long, each bear- 

 ing at its apex 4 elongated racemes arranged in one plane; 

 racemes up to 10 cm long, many-flowered. Flowers 4-merous, 

 their pedicels slender, pubescent, 2.5 to 3 mm long, solitary 

 or somewhat fascicled along the rachis. Sepals oblong, obtuse 

 or subacute, 0.8 mm long, deciduous, leaving in fruit a disk- 

 like base nearly 1 mm in diameter and bearing 8 marginal 

 glands. Petals elliptic, rounded, about 1.2 mm long. Stamens 

 8; filaments 1 to 1.2 mm long; anthers heart-shaped, 0.3 mm 

 long. Capsules oblong, narrowed at both ends, the base acute, 

 apex acuminate, 4 to 5 mm long including the two styles, 1 to 

 2 mm in diameter, uniformly pubescent with scattered, short 

 hairs, the styles 1 to 1.5 mm long. 



Luzon, Province of Laguna, Dahican, in forests along the river, Phil. 

 PI. 1109 Ramos, September 17, 1912. 



A species manifestly allied to Weinmannia luzoniensis Vid., from which 

 it differs in its entirely glabrous leaves, but more especially in its much 

 narrower, differently shaped leaflets which are only slightly toothed, 

 strongly shining on both surfaces, and with slender, laxly arranged vein? 

 and reticulations. Several of the Philippine representatives of this genus 

 find their closest allies (§ Leiospernium) in Polynesia, not in the Malayan 

 region. 



LEGUMINOSAE 



ALBIZZIA Durazzini 

 ALBIZZiA MYRIANTHA sp. nov. 



Arbor circiter 20 m alta, inflorescentiis exceptis glabra; folii^ 

 bipinnatis, circiter 35 cm longis, petiolo basi supra 1-guanduloso, 

 rhachibus glandulis 2 vel 3 instructis ; pinnis circiter 10 utrinque, 

 10 ad 14 cm longis; foliolis circiter 30 utrinque, oblongis, equi- 

 lateralibus, basi obtusis, apice rotundatis, circiter 1.5 cm longis, 

 costa centralis; inflorescentiis axillaribus folia aequantibus, 

 racemoso-paniculatis ; floribus numerosis, albido-viridis, pedicel- 

 latis, ad apices ramuloinim racemoso-capitatis. 



A tree about 20 m high, glabrous except the inflorescence. 

 Branches subterete, very dark-colored when dry, slightly lenti- 

 cellate. Leaves bi pinnate, about 35 cm long, the petiole with 

 a large gland near the base, the rachis with 2 or 3 smaller 

 glands in the upper part; pinnae about 10 on each side of the 

 rachis, opposite, the secondary rachises with glands in the upper 

 one-half, 10 to 14 cm long; leaflets opposite, about 30 pairs on 



