XIV, 4 Merrill: Noteworthy Philippine Plants, XV 413 



Panay, Capiz Province, Mount Macosolon, Bur. Sci. 30756 

 Ramos & Edano, April 22, 1918, on forested slopes. 



This species resembles Semecarpus philippinensis Engl., to 

 which it is manifestly allied, but from which it is easily distin- 

 guished by its ferruginous-pubescent panicles and hypocarps. 



ONCOCARPUS A. Gray 

 ONCOCARPUS OBOVATA (Elm.) comb. nov. 



Dichapetalum obovatum Elm. Leafl. Philip. Bot. 2 (1908) 483. 



Luzon, Tayabas Province, Mount Banahao, Elmer 7931 

 (type) , May, 1907, in fruit ; QuisumUng 13^6, May, 1918, with 

 staminate flowers. 



While it has long been realized by me that the form described 

 by Mr. Elmer could be no dichapetalous plant, no study of it 

 was previously made on account of the incomplete material rep- 

 resenting it. Staminate material from near the type locality 

 shows that it is an anacardiaceous plant and is referable to Onco- 

 carpus. It differs radically from the other Philippine species of 

 this small genus in its very short inflorescences, the staminate 

 ones being reduced to few-flowered, axillary fascicles ; the stam- 

 inate flowers are moreover 5- to 6-merous, with 5 calyx-lobes 

 and 6 petals and stamens. The petals are oblong-lanceolate, re- 

 ticulate, villous externally, about 3 mm long, 1 to 1.2 mm wide, 

 obtuse or acute ; the filaments are unequal in length and glabrous ; 

 the rudimentary ovary densely villous. In the type collection, 

 which was distributed as Pterospermum, the single fruit I have 

 seen is 1-celled and 1-seeded, although it is described as 2-celled 

 with one seed in each cell. The pedicel is only slightly thickened 

 in fruit. The alliance of this species is manifestly with Onco- 

 carpus densiflora Merr. 



PARISH I A Hooker f. 

 PARISHIA OBLONGIFOLIA sp. nov. 



Arbor, inflorescentiis ferrugineo-tomentosis exceptis glabra; 

 foliis usque ad 40 cm longis, foliolis 15 ad 17, coriaceis, aequi- 

 lateralibus, oblongis ad oblongo-lanceolatis, acuminatis, usque ad 

 18 cm longis, nitidis, nervis utrinque circiter 20 ; inf ructescentiis 

 quam foliis paullo longioribus, calycis accrescentibus usque ad 10 

 cm longis, ferrugineo-tomentosis, lobis anguste oblongis, obtusis, 

 usque ad 9 cm longis et 1.5 cm latis, tubo inflato, in siccitate 

 bi*unneis, fructibus densissime villosis. 



A tree, vdth ultimate branches thickened, rugose, dark-brown, 

 about 1.5 cm in diameter. Leaves up to 40 cm long; leaflets 15 

 to 17, coriaceous, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 11 to 18 cm long, 



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