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except the young branchlets which are more or less appressed- 

 pubescent, the branches brown, terete, 4 to 5 mm in diameter. 

 Leaves 3-foliolate, the leaflets oblong-ovate, coriaceous, brown 

 and shining when dry, glabrous, 20 to 28 cm long, 9 to 16 cm 

 wide, subequally narrowed to the acute or subacute base and 

 to the blunt or somewhat retuse apex, equilateral, the l^eral 

 nerves about 8 on each side of the midrib, prominent on the 

 lower surface, the petioles about 1 cm long. Racemes 30 to 

 40 cm long, apparently many-flowered, narrowly paniculate, 

 flower bearing in the upper two-thirds, the branchlets from the 

 nodes 1 to 1.5 cm long, each bearing several flowers, judging 

 from the scars of fallen pedicels. Pedicels 1.5 to 2 cm long. 

 Calyx about 1 cm long, nearly 1 cm in diameter, truncate, the 

 upper side somewhat gibbous. Corolla blue-violet in color, very 

 strongly recurved. Standard about 5 cm long, 2.5 cm wide, 

 very sharply bent upward and backward from the mouth of 

 the calyx, acuminate, pubescent inside in the median portion 

 below, auriculate at the sharp curve inside; wings strongly 

 falcate-cui-ved, their claws 1.5 cm long, the lamina 2.5 cm long, 

 1 cm wide, obtuse, one side auriculate at the base. Keel very 

 strongly recurved, when straightened out about 7 cm long, long- 

 acuminate, rostate. Fruit apparently fleshy, when dry falcate- 

 ovoid, about 5 cm long, 2.5 cm in diameter, not compressed, 

 beaked at the apex, contracted at the base into a short stipe. 



Luzon, Province of Rizal, Montalban, Loher 5935, April 15, 1906. 



The most strongly marked species known from the Philippines, at once 

 reco^izable by its unusually large leaflets, its large flowers, and the nodes 

 of the racemes produced as slender branchlets up to 1.5 cm in length, 

 making the inflorescence a narrow panicle rather than a true raceme. 



LUZONIA Elmer 



LUZONIA PURPUREA Elm. Leafl. Philip. Bot. 1 (1907) 220. 



This genus and species were described from flowering specimens. The 

 fruits are fleshy, oblong to oblong-obovoid in outline, when fresh some- 

 what fleshy, cylindric, not at all compressed, about 12 cm long, 5.5 cm 

 thick, smooth, shining, purple, short-apiculate at the apex, the valves very 

 thick, apparently tardily dehiscent, firm, fleshy, greenish-white in color, 1 

 to 1.5 cm thick; sutures not prominent. Seeds usually 4 in each pod, 

 ellipsoid, about 3 cm long and 2 cm thick. 



Luzon, Benguet Subprovince, Pacdal, Merrill 9685, May, 1914. 



MILLETTIA Wight & Arnott 

 MILLETTIA BRACHYCARPA sp. nov. 



Arbor circiter 7 m alta, inflorescentiis exceptis glabra; foliis 

 circiter 20 cm longis, imparipinnatis, foliolis circiter 7, oblongo- 

 ovatis, subcoriaceis, breviter acuminatis, usque ad 13 cm longis; 



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