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shining, mostly oblong, the lower surface a little paler than the 

 upper one, 6 to 11 cm long, 3 to 4.5 cm wide, the base rounded, the 

 apex blunt-acuminate, the acumen distinctly retuse ; lateral nerves 

 5 to 7 on each side of the midrib, slender, not prominent; peti- 

 olules 4 to 5 mm long, the rachis bearing the terminal leaflet 

 produced. Inflorescence and flowers not seen. Pods narrowly 

 oblong, thin, pale brown or grayish, smooth and shining, about 

 11 cm long, 2.5 to 3 cm wide, acute or acuminate, base decurrent 

 into a short stipe, the margins narrowly keeled, apparently 

 tardily dehiscent, containing three or four seeds. 



Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, opposite Olutanga Island, For. Bur. 

 1S290 Foxworthy, DeMesa, & Villamil, May 16, 1912, on forested slopes 

 near the sea, altitude about 20 meters. 



There is some doubt as to the correctness of referring the species to 

 Orviosia in the absence of flowers, but it is probably correct, and probably 

 referable to the section Amacrotropis. Its Moro name, bahay, is also sig- 

 nificant, for in other parts of the Archipelago this is the common name of 

 Ormosia calavensis Azaola. The seeds, in the specimens available, were 

 destroyed by insects before the time of collection. 



SINDORA Miquel 



SINDORA INERMIS sp. nov. 



Arbor alta, partibus junioribus leviter pubescentibus ; foliolis 

 6, chartaceis vel subcoriaceis, usque ad 12 cm longis, subellipticis, 

 breviter obtuse acuminatis, basi subacutis ad rotundatis aliquis 

 inaequilateralibus ; stipulis late acinaciformibus, 2 ad 2.5 cm 

 longis; leguminibus compressis, inermis, inaequilateraliter subel- 

 lipticis, circiter 7 cm longis et 5 cm latis, brevissime apiculatis. 



A tall tree, the younger parts sparingly pubescent, otherwise 

 glabrous (inflorescence not seen). Branches slender, terete, 

 brown. Leaves about 25 cm long, each with 6 leaflets, the leaflets 

 chartaceous to subcoriaceous, subelliptic, somewhat shining, 

 brownish-olivaceous, 8 to 12 cm long, 5.5 to 6.5 cm wide, some of 

 them more or less inequilateral, apex shortly and obtusely 

 acuminate, base subacute to rounded ; lateral nerves slender, 15 or 

 more on each side of the midrib, both surfaces rather distinctly 

 and densely subf oveolate-reticulate ; stipules broadly scimitar- 

 shaped, falcate, coriaceous, 2 to 2.5 cm long, shortly acuminate. 

 Flowers not seen. Fruits compressed, somewhat inequilateral, 

 about 7 cm long, 5 cm wide, brown, glabrous, with a short excen- 

 tric apiculus at the apex, the valves unarmed, thickly coriaceous. 



Mindanao, District of Cotabato, Sapu, Sarangani Bay, For. Bur. 2S05U 

 Ferraris, October 3, 1914, growing at sea level near the mangrove, locally 

 known as gayugalo, oil-producing like Sindora supa. A sterile specimen. 



