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1.5 to 2 cm in diameter. Leaves numerous, crowded at the tips 

 of the branchlets, about 60 cm long, the rachis reddish-brown 

 when dry, glabrous ; leaflets about 15 pairs, coriaceous, narrowly 

 oblong to narrowly oblong-obovate, the upper surface brownish- 

 olivaceous and strongly shining when dry, the lower surface 

 much paler and scarcely shining, 6 to 8 cm long, 1.5 to 2 cm wide, 

 base acute, often slightly inequilateral, apex rounded to acute; 

 lateral nerves indistinct, 12 to 15 on each side of the midrib; 

 petiolules 2 mm long or less. Panicles axillary, as long as the 

 leaves, sparingly castaneous-pubescent with very short simple 

 hairs, not at all glandular. Flowers about 7 mm long. Calyx- 

 teeth ovate, obtuse, about 1.5 mm long, puberulent. Petals 

 oblong, acute or obtuse, about 6 mm long and 3 mm wide, both 

 surfaces puberulent, the margins below inflexed. Filaments 2.5 

 mm long, the basal glandular appendages 2, narrowly oblong, 

 up to 1 mm long, slightly pubescent. Ovary pubescent. Imma- 

 ture fruits oblong-ellipsoid, 1.5 mm long, apex rounded, base 

 narrowed and subacute. 



Mindanao, Surigao Province, Bur. Sci. 34592 Ramos & Pas- 

 casio (type) , April 24, 1919. Dinagat, Bur. Sci. 35207 Ramos^ 

 & Pascasio, May 12, 1919. On ridges and in forests at low al- 

 titudes, the type from the iron deposit on the northeast coast 

 of Surigao. 



Eurycoma longifolia Jack has been accredited to Luzon on the 

 basis of a specimen, so labeled, collected by Lobb ; it is absolutely 

 certain that Lobb's specimen came from Malay Peninsula or from 

 Borneo where Jack's species is common, and not from Luzon. 

 The present species then is the first definite record for this small 

 genus for the Philippines. In general appearance Eurycoma 

 eglandulosa closely resembles E. longifolia, but the indumentum 

 on the inflorescences consists solely of very short, castaneous, 

 simple hairs, and is never glandular as in Jack's species. 



BURSERACEAE 



CANARIUM Linnaeus 

 CANARIUM UNIFOLIOLATUM sp. nov. 



Arbor parva, glaberrima, foliis 1-foliolatis, oblongis, coria- 

 ceis, nitidis, integris, 9 ad 15 cm longis, perspicue acuminatis, 

 basi acutis, nervis utrinque 8 ad 10, perspicuis; racemis axil- 

 laribus, 1.5 ad 2 cm longis, paucifloris, floribus circiter 4 mm 

 longis; drupis subteretibus, leviter inaequilateralibus, acutis, 

 circiter 1.3 cm longis, rugosis. 



A small, entirely glabrous tree with simple leaves. Leaves 



