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more or less covered with very short dark-brown hairs. 

 Branches terete, brownish or grayish, glabrous, lenticellate, 5 

 to 7 mm in diameter. Leaves 15 to 25 cm long, alternate, the 

 leaflets 5 or 6, coriaceous, brown and shining when dry, entire, 

 5 to 12 cm long, 4 to 6 cm wide, the apex acuminate, the acumen 

 usually abrupt, short, blunt, the base acute to rounded, mostly 

 nearly equilateral; lateral nerves about 12 on each side of the 

 midrib, very prominent on the lower surface, anastomosing, 

 the reticulations prominent, the nerves, midrib, and reticulations 

 with very short, stout, short, glandlike hairs, the upper surface 

 entirely glabrous; petiolules 5 to 10 mm long; stipules linear- 

 lanceolate, thick, stiff, straight or curved, brown-pubescent, 

 about 5 mm long. Inflorescences axillary, solitary, numerous, 

 equalling or a little longer than the leaves, brown-pubescent, or 

 the flower clusters ferruginous-pubescent. Male flowers numer- 

 ous, fascicled, the fascicles widely separated, each with numerous 

 ovate, hirsute, 1.2 to 1.8 mm long bracteoles, the flowers sessile. 

 Calyx cylindric, 4 mm long, hirsute, the lobes 3, broadly ovate, 

 obtuse, about 2 mm long. Petals 3, oblong, 6 mm long, 2 mm 

 wide, obtuse, the upper two-thirds externally pubescent. Fila- 

 ments six, 3 to 3.5 mm long, flattened below and slightly united 

 for the lower 0.5 mm forming an obscure disk; anthers oblong, 

 1.8 mm long. Rudimentary ovary obovoid, glabrous, 1.5 mm 

 in diameter, more or less evidently 3-cleft and readily separat- 

 ing into three parts. Female or perfect flowers apparently sim- 

 ilar to the male, the infructescence narrowly paniculate, the 

 lower branches up to 3 cm in length, each branch with from 1 

 to 3 fruits, the pedicels stout, 5 to 10 mm long. Mature fruits 

 ovoid, not at all 3-angled, apiculate, about 1.2 cm long, 7 to 

 8 mm in diameter, the pericarp thin, wrinkled when dry, gla- 

 brous, the endocarp 1-celled, bony, about 2 mm thick. 



Luzon, Province of Laguna, San Antonio, Bur. Sci. H.9U5 (type), 20^68, 

 20579 Ramos; Mount Banajao, For. Bxir. 19722 Barber, in flower in Feb- 

 ruary, in fruit in April and May, growing in forests up to an altitude of 

 500 meters. 



A species in many characters closely resembling Canarium villosion 

 F.-Vill. (C cumingii Engl.), and probably as closely allied to that species 

 as any other. It is distinguished by its very shoi-t, dark-brown indumentum 

 which appears on the younger parts of the inflorescence, and on the lower 

 surface of the leaflets. The male flowers are disposed in sessile, dense, 

 distant fascicles and are ferruginous-pubescent. 



CANARIUM BARN ESI I sp. nov. § Choriandra. 



Arbor circiter 20 m alta a C. lagunense differt foliis longio- 

 ribus, foliolis magis numerosis, 6 vel 7, inflorescentiis multo 



