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growing branchlets somewhat pubescent. Branches terete, dark 

 reddish-brown. Leaves brown when dry, shining, coriaceous, 

 oblong-oblanceolate 15 to 17 cm long, 3 to 4 cm wide, the apex 

 slenderly subcaudate acuminate, the acumen up to 2 cm long, 

 blunt, the base narrowed, long and slenderly decurrent-acumi- 

 nate ; lateral nei'ves 20 to 25 on each side of the midrib, slender, 

 distinct on both surfaces, the secondary veins not parallel, re- 

 ticulations distinct; petioles 3 to 3.5 cm long. Panicles quite 

 glabrous, slender, rather few-flowered, about as long as the leaves, 

 branched from the middle and above. Flowers white, 4-merous, 

 their pedicels somewhat 4-angled, distinctly jointed, gradually 

 thickened upward, 2 to 3 mm long. Calyx lobes 0.5 mm long 

 or less. Petals oblong, obtuse, 2.5 mm long, about 1 mm wide. 

 Filaments 1 mm long, the apical part very slender; anthers 

 sagittate, about 1 mm long. Disk and carpels glabrous. 



Luzon, Province of Laguna, San Antonio, Bur. Sci. 10932 Ramos, 

 August, 1910, in forests, Dahican River. 



A species similar to Buchcmania sessilifolia Blume {B. acuminata 

 Turcz.), from which it differs in its much more numerous lateral nerves, 

 and entirely glabrous leaves and panicles. The material was distributed 

 as Buchanania arborescens Blume, but it is quite different from that 

 species and not closely allied to it. 



BUCHANANIA RETICULATA Elm. Leaf!. Philip. Bot. 4 (1912) 1499. 



This is typical Mangifera altissima Blanco, and must be reduced to 

 Blanco's species. The type is Elmer 12S3U from the Island of Sibuyan. 



PRUNUS ? LAURI FOLIA Dene, in Nouv. Ann. Mus. Paris 3 (1834) 

 458; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 1^ (1855) ^&Q= Buchanania arborescens Blume. 

 This species was considered by Miquel as a true Prunus, but he mani- 

 festly saw no specimens. A cotype of the species, received from the 

 Museum of Natural History, Paris, is in the Herbarium of the Bureau 

 of Science. The specimen is with fruits, and is typical Buchanania arbo- 

 rescens Blume. 



SWINTONIA Griffith 

 SWINTONIA ACUMINATA sp. nov. 



Arbor glabra, 15 ad 20 m alta ; foliis coriaceis vel subcoriaceis, 

 usque ad 15 cm longis, oblongo-ellipticis, utrinque subaequaliter 

 angustatis, apice acuminatis, basi leviter decurrentibus, subtus 

 pallidis, nervis utrinque circiter 15; paniculis folia aequantibus 

 vel longioribus, multifloris, pedicellis glabris vel minute pubes- 

 centibus, petalis intus puberulis, sub anthesin circiter 2.5 mm 

 longis, obtusis, elliptico-ovatis. ' 



A tree 15 to 20 m high, entirely glabrous except the short 

 pedicels and slightly puberulent petals. Branches terete, dark 

 reddish-brown when dry. Leaves alternate, coriaceous or sab- 



