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on the ultimate branchlets, rather numerous, white, their pedicels 

 slightly ferruginous-pubescent with short appressed hairs as 

 are the sepals externally. Sepals 4 or 6, orbicular-ovate, coria- 

 ceous, rounded, 2 to 3 mm long, the inner two or three a little 

 larger than the outer two or three. Corolla about 6 mm long, 

 the tube about 1.5 mm, the lobes 6, oblong-elliptic, rounded or 

 obtuse, about 4.5 mm long, 2.5 to 3 mm wide, externally very 

 slightly pubescent. Stamens 12; anthers oblong, acute or acu- 

 minate, about 2.5 mm long. Ovary ovoid, pubescent, 5- to 7- 

 celled, narrowed upward into the rather stout style, the ovary 

 and style about 6 mm long. 



Luzon, Province of Rizal, Mount Susong Dalaga, Bur. Sci. 19160 Reillo, 

 December 6, 1914, altitude not indicated, but from the mossy forest. 



The species somewhat resembles a small leaved form of Palaquium 

 cuneatum Vidal, and is characterized not only by its unusually small 

 leaves, but by its very obscure, often nearly obsolete nerves, very short 

 pedicels, and the variable number of sepals, either 4 or 6; in those flowers 

 with 4 sepals, however, there are always 6 corolla lobes and 12 stamens. 

 I know of no other species of Palaquium where the number of calyx lobes 

 is variable. 



PALAQUIUM LANCEOLATUM Blanco Fl. Pilip. (1837) 403, ed. 2 (1845) 

 282, ed. 3, 2 (1878) 159. 

 This species is of importance as it is the type of the genus Palaquium 

 Blanco, and no material previously referred to the species, unless it be 

 Vidal's specimen cited by Dubard, has agreed with Blanco's description 

 in essential characters; specimens referred by me at various times to the 

 species have correctly been indicated by Dubard as a distinct species, 

 Palaquium merrillii Dubard,* as Blanco's species has 18 stamens, and the 

 material Dubard has referred to P. merrillii has but 12 stamens. Speci- 

 mens in flower, recently collected, agree in practically all details with 

 Blanco's description, and I feel perfectly confident that the present inter- 

 pretation of the species is the correct one, and an amplification of Blanco's 

 description follows: 



A tall tree, quite glabrous except the younger parts and the 

 flowers. Branchlets and young petioles ferruginous-pubescent. 

 Leaves oblong to oblong-oblanceolate or obovate, rarely ap- 

 proaching the lanceolate type, coriaceous or subcoriaceous, brown 

 and shining when dry, glabrous on both surfaces, shortly and 

 obtusely acuminate to obtuse or even rounded at the apex, base 

 narrowed, cuneate; lateral nerves about 11 on each side of the 

 midrib, prominent, the reticulations fine; petioles about 1 mm 

 long. Flowers numerous, axillary, in the axils of leaves and of 

 fallen leaves on the ultimate branchlets, fascicled, their pedicels 

 ferruginous-pubescent, 2.5 to 4 cm long. Outer 3 sepals densely 

 ferruginous-pubescent, ovate, acute to somewhat acuminate, cori- 



•Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 15 (1909) 381. 



