IV. 



Note on a Philippine species of Keinvvardtiodendroii 



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J. Perkins. 



Rciinvardliodcndron M<'ri-illii Pork. n. sp. Tree 10 m high, 

 5 cm (liaiii. (ex Barnks); branches terete, glabrous, gray-brown. Leaves 

 oblong or lanceolate- oblong, long-acuniinato, tapering from the 

 lower third to the very narrow base, glabrous on both surfaces, 

 papyraceous or subchartaceous, reticulate, entire; main-nerves 8 — 9 

 paii's, ascending, curved, faint on the upper, prominent on the lower 

 surface when dry; length 11—20 cm, width 3,5 — 6,5 cm; petioles 

 1,5 — 2 cm long, jointed at the apex. Spikes axillary, solitary or in 

 fascicles, much shorter than tiie leaves, glabrous. Flow^ers sessile, 

 4 mm long, yellow (ex Bai>'Ni;s), solitary, minutely bracteolate at the 

 base. Calyx membranous, glabrous, with 5 rounded lobes. Petals 

 longer than the calyx, subrotund, glabrous. Staminal-tube campa- 

 nulate, the mouth with 5 shallow teeth, glabrous; anthers sessile, 10, 

 in two rows, appendiculate especially those of tiie low^er row, upper 

 ones rarely slightly exsertcd. Disk minute, annular. Ovary small, 

 5-carpelled, brown-pubescent, cylindrical, 5-angled; style short, 

 thick; stigma large 5 -angled. 



Fruits globular, woody, 2 — 3 cm in diam., yellow -brown, 

 densely clothed with a white tomentum, rugose, 5-celled. Seeds 

 usually only one, rarely two (the other ovules being abortive), ovoid, 

 flat on one side, convex on the other, rounded at both ends, covered 

 with a membranous thin testa; cotyledons very thick, fleshy, peltate, 

 separated from each otiier by a slit running (somewhat irregularly) 

 transversely to the longitudinal axis and dividing the seed into two 

 subequal parts; radicula hairy, hidden between the cotylodims. 



Luzon, Prov. Bataan, Lamao River, Mt. Marivelcs, in hill torest, 

 along the Kiver, at 100 in (Mkrimi,!, no. 3149 in October 1903 in fruit); 

 Lamao Kiver (Haknks no. 59 in flower and in fruit October 1903). 



