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Formosa, and southern China. It is the only pinnate-leaved 

 Evodia known from the Philippines. 



EVODIA SESSILIFOLIOLA sp, nov. 



Arbor usque ad 10 m alta, partibus junioribus inflorescentiis- 

 que plus minusve villosis ; f oHis plerumque 3-f oliolatis, interdum 

 1-foliolatis, f oliolis chartaceis ad subcoriaceis, sessilibus, oblongo- 

 obovatis, usque ad 20 cm longis, basi cuneatis, apice obtusis, 

 subtus punctatis, nervis utrinque circiter 13, subtus perspicuis; 

 inflorescentiis axillaribus, pedunculatis, usque ad 10 cm longis; 

 floribus 4-meris, petalis circiter 2.5 mm longis. 



A tree, 8 to 10 m high, the younger parts and the inflores- 

 cences more or less villous, the indumentum grayish, the older 

 parts soon glabrous. Leaves mostly 3-foliolate, sometimes 

 1-foliolate ones on the same branchlets with the 3-foliolate ones, 

 their petioles 5 to 7 cm long ; leaflets sessile, chartaceous to sub- 

 coriaceous, brownish or rather pale when dry, somewhat shining, 

 obovate to oblong-obovate, 9 to 20 cm long, 4 to 10 cm wide, the 

 mature ones glabrous, beneath distinctly punctate, apex obtuse 

 to rounded, base of the terminal leaflet usually cuneate, equi- 

 lateral, of the lateral ones usually obtuse and distinctly inequi- 

 lateral; nerves about 13 on each side of the midrib, prominent 

 on the lower surface, anastomosing, the reticulations prominent. 

 Inflorescences axillary, peduncled, up to 10 cm long, paniculate, 

 rather many flowered. Flowers white, 4-merous, their pedicels 

 up to 2 mm in length, densely villous. Sepals oblong, 0.5 mm 

 long. Petals ovate, about 2.5 mm long. Disk densely villous. 

 Fruit of 3 or 4 cocci, glabrous, the individual cocci about 3 mm 

 in diameter. 



Luzon, Benguet Subprovince, Pauai, Bur. Sci. 31788 Santos 

 (type), April 22, 1913, altitude about 2,400 meters, with the 

 Igorot name itapan, Mrs. Clemens s. n., January, 1915 ; Baguio, 

 Williams 1531, November 30, 1904, Sandkuhl 86, July, 1913. 



Among the Philippine species the alliance of this form is 

 with Evodia semecarpifolia Merr., and among the extra-Philip- 

 pine forms with E. lunur-ankenda (Gaertn.) Merr. It is distin- 

 guished from both by its sessile leaflets. The combination of 

 3-foliolate and 1-foliolate leaves on the same branchlets is 

 rather unusual in the genus. 



MELIACEAE 



AG LA I A Loureiro 

 AGLAIA DIFFUSI FLORA sp. nov. § Euaglaia. 



Arbor parva, plus minusve brunneo- vel castaneo-lepidotis ; 

 foliis altemis, circiter 60 cm longis, 7-foliolatis, foliolis oblongo- 



