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coriaceous, oblong-elliptic, 8 to 15 cm long, 3 to 6 cm wide, 

 pale and shining when dry, the lower surface somewhat glaucous, 

 subequally narrowed to the acuminate apex and to the acute or 

 acuminate and very slightly decurrent base, the acumen up to 

 1 cm in length, blunt; lateral nerves about 15 on each side of 

 the midrib, mostly spreading, slightly curved, prominent, the 

 reticulations distinct on both surfaces; petioles slender, semi- 

 terete, not sulcate, reddish-brown when dry, 4 to 5 cm long. 

 Panicles axillary, slender, numerous, many flowered, up to 20 

 cm in length, the lower branches up to 12 cm in length. Flowers 

 cream-color or white, numerous, somewhat crowded on the ulti- 

 mate short branchlets, the pedicels 2 mm long or less. Calyx 

 campanulate, about 2 mm long, the lobes broad, rounded, im- 

 bricate. Petals in anthesis elliptic-ovate, obtuse, about 2.5 mm 

 long, glabrous outside, somewhat puberulent inside. Stamens 

 5. Ovary ovoid, glabrous, inequilateral, about 1 mm long ; style 

 short; stigma capitate. 



Luzon, Province of Camarines, Pinamuhagan, For. Bur. 21749 Fischer 

 (type), April 16, 1914; same province and month of collection, For. Bur. 

 21729 Penas, Soriano, & Abellanosa, For. Bur. 21232 Alvarez. In forests, 

 altitude 10 to 80 meters. 



Apparently allied to the Bornean Swintonia glauca Engl., but the 

 branchlets entirely glabrous, leaves not dark-colored on the upper surface 

 when dry, and with more prominent and more numerous lateral nerves, 

 relatively shorter and glabrous panicles, and glabrous ovaries. It is quite 

 different from the other known Philippine species. 



SABIACEAE 



MELIOSMA Blume 

 MELIOSMA ACUMINATISSIMA sp. nov. 



Arbor circiter 5 m alta, glabra vel subglabra; foliis pinnatis, 

 usque ad 50 cm longis, foliolis subcoriaceis, usque ad 13, oblongo- 

 ovatis ad lanceolatis, tenuiter acute acuminatis, basi acutis, 

 margine integris, usque ad 11 cm longis, nitidis, nervis utrinque 

 6 vel 7; infructescentibus folia aequantibus, terminalibus, fruc- 

 tibus obovoideis, circiter 6 mm diametro, leviter compressis, 

 obscure reticulatis. 



A tree about 5 m high, glabrous or nearly so. Branches terete, 

 pale brownish, the very tips ferruginous-hirsute, the plant (in 

 fruit) otherwise glabrous. Leaves up to 50 cm long, pinnate, 

 the leaflets about 13, oblong-ovate to lanceolate, entire, sub- 

 coriaceous, pale-olivaceous, shining, 7 to 11 cm long, 3 to 4 cm 

 wide, apex rather slenderly and sharply acuminate, base acute, 

 often a little inequilateral; lateral nerves about 6 on each side 

 of the midrib, prominent, curved-ascending, prominently anas- 



