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faces, subequally narrowed to the acuminate base and apex, the 

 apical acumen obtuse, stout, about 1 cm long; primary lateral 

 nerves about 16 on each side of the midrib, spreading, distinct, 

 anastomosing, the reticulations distinct. Panicles axillary, 

 solitary, 3 to 4 cm long, peduncled, narrowly pyramidal, few- 

 flowered, the lower branches 1 cm long or less. Young flowers 

 about 3 mm long, the petals 4, oblong, obtuse, glandular. Sepals, 

 ovate, obtuse, 1 mm long. Staminodes 4, about 1 mm long. 

 Ovary glabrous, deeply 4-lobed, the immature carpels brown, 

 about 3.5 mm long. 



Luzon, Tayabas Province, Mount Binuang, Bur. Sci. 28864 Ramos & 

 Edano, May 20, 1917, in forests along streams at low altitudes. 



The alliance of this species is apparently with Evodia ternata (Blanco) 

 Merr., from which it is readily distinguished by its thicker leaflets which 

 vary in number from 1 to 3; its short, few-flowered inflorescences; and 

 in being entirely glabrous in all parts. 



TETRACTOMIA Hooker f. 



TETRACTOMIA PACHYPHYLLA sp. nov. 



Arbor glabra, circiter 15 m alta, ramis crassis, rugosis, cicat- 

 ricibus perspicuis instructis; foliis crasse coriaceis, obovatis, in 

 siccitate olivaceis vel olivaceo-brunneis, usque ad 11 cm longis, 

 apice latissime rotundatis, basi cuneatis, obscure punctatis, ner- 

 vis utrinque circiter 8; inflorescentiis usque ad 15 cm longis, 

 longe pedunculatis ; floribus circiter 5 mm diametro, petalis 

 latissime ovatis, acutis vel obscure acuminatis, circiter 2.5 mm 

 longis latisque. 



A glabrous tree about 15 m high. Branches stout, rugose, 

 about 6 mm in diameter, grayish or grayish-brown, marked with 

 numerous large petiolar scars. Leaves thickly coriaceous, obo- 

 vate, 6 to 11 cm long, 4 to 7 cm wide, shining, olivaceous or 

 brownish-olivaceous when dry, the lower surface often paler 

 than the upper, the apex very broadly rounded, the base cuneate, 

 the upper surface obscurely pitted, the lower obscurely glan- 

 dular-punctate ; lateral nerves about 8 on each side of the midrib, 

 rather conspicuous, anastomosing, the reticulations lax; petioles 

 1 to 2 cm long. Inflorescences from the upper axils and sub- 

 terminal, long-peduncled, up to 15 cm long, the branches few, 

 the lower primary ones up to 6 cm in length. Flowers fragrant, 

 yellowish-green, dark-brown when dry, about 5 mm in diameter, 

 somewhat crowded on the ultimate branchlets, shortly pedicelled. 

 Calyx somewhat turbinate, 2.5 to 3 mm in diameter, shallowly 

 topthed. Petals broadly ovate, about 2.5 mm long and wide, 

 acute or somewhat acuminate. Filaments about 3 mm long. 



