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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 lateral 

 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 manj'^-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-curved, 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 

 recognizable 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. 



LUZON! A 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, 6.5 cm 

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

 Uiick, 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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