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at their apices outside. Staminal tube cylindric, toothed, 

 glabrous on both surfaces, 3.5 mm long. Anthers usually 7, 

 0.8 mm long. Disk glabrous, free, about 1 mm high. Ovary 

 and stigma about 4 mm long, the stigma 1 mm in diameter, 

 the ovary pubescent, no thicker than the glabrous style. 



SiARGAO, Bur. Sci. 35021 Ramos & Pascasio, May 27, 1919, in 

 forests at low altitudes. 



The alliance of this species is apparently with Dysoxylum 

 cumingianum C. DC, but the mature leaves are glabrous while 

 the flowers are very much smaller than in the latter species, 

 there being further many other differential characters; the two 

 are not closely allied. 



DICHAPETALACEAE 



DICHAPETALUM Thouars 

 DICHAPETALUM NITIDUM sp. nov. 



Frutex scandens, ramulis et petiolis et inflorescentiis pubes- 

 cens ; f oliis coriaceis, olivaceis, nitidissimis, oblongis ad oblongo- 

 lanceolatis, 10 ad 14 cm longis, basi acutis vel obtusis, apice 

 leviter acuminatis, nervis utrinque circiter 6, reticulis ultimis 

 utrinque distinctis; cymis pedunculatis, 3 ad 4 cm longis, dense 

 pubescens, petalis oblongo-obovatis, deorsum angustatis, 2 mm 

 longis, apice retusis. 



A woody vine, the branchlets, petioles, and inflorescences 

 more or less pubescent with short, yellowish-brown or ferru- 

 ginous hairs, the younger parts densely pubescent. Branches 

 reddish-brown when dry. Leaves coriaceous, olivaceous and 

 strongly shining when dry, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 10 to 

 14 cm long, 2.5 to 4.4 cm wide, the base acute or obtuse, nar- 

 rowed upward to the somewhat acuminate apex; lateral nerves 

 about 6 on each side of the midrib, curved, anastomosing, dis- 

 tinct, the ultimate reticulations rather close, raised, and distinct 

 on both surfaces; petioles about 1 cm long. Inflorescences 

 peduncled, cymose, 3 to 4 cm long, dichotomously branched, up 

 to 2 cm in diameter, the peduncles up to 2.5 cm long, the younger 

 parts especially densely pubescent with short hairs. Pedicels 

 about 1 mm long, twice as long as the lanceolate bracteoles. 

 Flowers about 3.5 mm in diameter. Sepals densely pubescent, 

 oblong, obtuse, 1.7 mm long. Petals glabrous, oblong-obovate, 

 rounded, narrowed below, about 2 mm long, the apex minutely 

 cleft for about 0.5 mm. Filaments about 1.2 mm long. Ovary 

 densely lanate. 



Mindanao, Surigao Province, Bur. Sci. 3Jf596 Ramos & Pas- 



