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tomosing; petiolules about 4 mm long. Panicles (in fruit) ter- 

 minal, glabrous, as long as the leaves, the fruits nearly black 

 when dry, obovoid, about 6 mm in diameter, slightly compressed, 

 obscurely reticulate. 



Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Mount Pular, Bur. Sci. 19U17 Escritor, 

 January, 1913, in forests near the summit of the mountain. 



A species well distinguished by being glabrous or nearly so, and by its 

 entire leaflets. It is probably most closely allied to Meliosma sylvatica 

 Elm., but that species is prominently pubescent and has denticulate 

 leaflets. 



MELIOSMA MACGREGORII sp. nov. 



Arbor erecta vel scandens (?) prominente f errugineo-hirsutis ; 

 foliis pinnatis, usque ad 40 cm longis, foliolis 9, oblongis ad 

 oblongo-oblanceolatis, coriaceis, usque ad 12 cm longis, acumi- 

 natis, basi acutis, nervis utrinque circiter 10, subtus valde prom- 

 inentibus, margine integris ad leviter distanter denticulatis ; 

 paniculis terminalibus, amplis, multifloris, folia subaequantibus ; 

 floribus racemose dispositis, circiter 3 mm longis. 



An erect tree of small size (or scandent ?), the branches, 

 inflorescence, petioles and rachis, and the leaflets beneath and 

 on the midrib and lateral nerves on the upper surface prom- 

 inently ferruginous-hirsute. Leaves pinnate, up to 40 cm long, 

 I the leaflets 9, coriaceous, oblong to oblong-oblanceolate, 7 to 12 

 cm long, 2.5 to 4 cm wide, the apex sharply acuminate, base 

 acute, margins entire to distantly and irregularly denticulate, 

 the upper surface grayish to brownish wheji dry, somewhat shin- 

 ing, the midrib, nerves, and primary reticulations more or less 

 impressed, the former two ferruginous-hirsute, the lower surface 

 brown, paler than the upper surface, prominently hirsute on the 

 midrib and lateral nerves, with few hairs on the reticulations; 

 lateral nerves about 10 on each side of the midrib, very prom- 

 inent, curved-anastomosing, the reticulations prominent; pet- 

 iolules 6 to 10 mm long and with the rachis and petioles 

 prominently ferruginous-hirsute. Panicles terminal, about as 

 long as the leaves, prominently ferruginous-hirsute, the primary 

 branches distant, spreading, up to 16 cm long, the lower second- 

 ary ones of each branch up to 7 cm long, many flowered, the 

 flowers white, racemosely disposed on the ultimate branchlets, 

 not crowded, their pedicels 1 mm long or less, the bracts and 

 bracteoles oblong, pubescent, 1 to 2 mm long. Sepals ovate to 

 elliptic-ovate, about 1.8 mm long, margins ciliate. Outer three 

 petals orbicular-ovate, rounded, 2.5 to 3 mm long, the inner 

 two reduced to a bifid membranaceous scale about 1 mm long, 

 cleft into two oblong lobes. Stamens about 1.8 mm long, the 



