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circiter 8 cm longis, dense cinereo-puberulis ; pedicellis quam ala- 

 bastra ovoidea brevioribus; petalis quam laciniae calyciniae 

 duplo longioribus. 



A tree 15 to 20 m high, nearly or quite glabrous except the 

 rather densely cinereous-puberulent inflorescence. Branches 

 reddish-brown, glabrous, lenticellate, much thickened, 1 to 1.5 

 cm in diameter. Leaves alternate, crowded at the apices of the 

 branchlets, 30 to 45 cm long, deciduous before anthesis, the rachis 

 often somewhat puberulent, becoming glabrous. Leaflets straight 

 or somewhat falcate, 9 or 10 on each side of the rachis, opposite or 

 nearly so, chartaceous or thinly coriaceous, oblong, ovate-oblong, 

 or lanceolate-oblong, glabrous and somewhat shining when 

 dry, of the same color on both surfaces, the lower ones usually 

 smaller than the median ones, 5 to 12 cm long, 2 to 4.5 cm wide, 

 the margins entire or rarely distantly and irregulary crenulate, 

 the apex rather prominently acuminate, the base usually broad, 

 rounded or sometimes subtruncate, usually somewhat cordate, 

 strongly inequilateral, never with an additional pinnule at the 

 base as in Garuga floribunda Dene. Panicles appearing before 

 the new leaves, terminal, usually many from the apices of the 

 branchlets, about 8 cm long, all parts densely cinereous-puberu- 

 lent Flowers yellow, rather congested on the ultimate branch- 

 lets of the inflorescence, puberulent, their pedicels 1 to 1.5 

 mm long, shorter than the ovoid buds. Calyx 3 mm long, the 

 lobes oblong-ovate, acute, 1.5 mm long. Petals puberulent, 

 oblong-oblanceolate or narrowly oblong, usually acute, reflexed, 

 about twice as long as the calyx-lobes. Filaments 2.5 mm long, 

 pubescent, much thickened below; anthers 1 mm long. Ovary 

 ovoid, sessile, pubescent, 2 mm long, 4-celled, each cell 2-ovuled, 

 style stout, puberulent, 2.5 mm long; stigma obscurely 4-lobed. 

 Fruit black when ripe, obovoid, much wrinkled when dry, gla- 

 brous, 8 to 10 mm in diameter, each containing one or two sub- 

 globose, prominently rugose seeds about 5 mm in diameter. 



Luzon, Province of Tayabas, For. Bur. 12SU2 Curran (type), April, 

 1908, near the seashore. Masbate, For. Bur. 12572, 12587 Rosenbluth, 

 January, 1909, both specimens sterile. Cebu, Talisay, For. Bur. eitSl 

 Eapinoea, Septenaber, 1906. Mindoro, For. Bur. 8705 Merritt, January, 

 1908. 



A tree, usually growing near the seashore, apparently rather widely 

 distributed in the Philippines. It is manifestly allied to Garuga flori- 

 bunda Dene., of Timor and northern Australia, but appears to be distin- 

 guished from that species by its entire, much larger, leaflets, absence of 

 the supplementaiy reduced pinnules at the base of the leaflets, and its 

 short-pedicelled flowers. The inflorescence is not strictly terminal, but 

 the peduncles are in the crowded axils of the fallen leaves at the apices 



