20,1 Merrill: Noteworthy Philippine Plants, XVII 393 



Elmer 13519. Often common in forests at low and medium 

 altitudes. 



This species closely resembles material from the Malay Penin- 

 sula identified as Evodia latifolia DC. which I do not think can 

 be referred to de Candolle's species which was based wholly on 

 Ampaciis latifolia Rumph. Herb. Amb. 2: 186, t. 61, a species 

 with membranaceous pubescent leaves and in all probability 

 identified with Miquel's conception of the species as redescribed 

 by him from Halmahera specimens.^ Evodia glabra Blume is re- 

 mote from the present species and is identical with E. aromatica 

 Blume, which in turn is scarcely distinct from E. lunur-ankenda 

 <Gaertn.) Merr. 



MELIACEAE 



AG LA I A Loureiro 

 AGLAIA CUPREO-LEPIDOTA sp. nov. § Euaglaia. 



Arbor parva, partibus junioribus dense cupreo-lepidotis, ramis 

 glabris, lenticellatis, teretibus, ramulis ultimis 2 mm diametro; 

 foliis 12 ad 17 cm longis, 5-foliolatis, alternia, foliolis charta- 

 ceis ad subcoriaceis, elliptico-ovatis, 5 ad 8 cm longis, breviter 

 obtuse acuminatis, basi acuminatis vel acutis, supra glabris, 

 pallide olivaceis, utrinque puncticulatis, subtus parcissime cupreo- 

 lepidotis, vetustioribus glabris; paniculis axillaribus, dense 

 cupreo-lepidotis, circiter 4 cm longis, petiolo subaequantibus ; 

 floribus racemose dispositis, 5-meris, calycis dense cupreo- 

 lepidotis, lobis late ovatis, rotundatis, 1 mm diametro; petalis 

 liberis, glabris, 2 mm longis; tubo glabro, cupulato, truncate, 

 1.2 mm diametro; antheris 5, inclusis. 



A small tree, the younger parts densely cupreous-lepidote, the 

 branches terete, glabrous, pale-brownish, somewhat lenticellate, 

 the ultimate branchlets about 2 mm in diameter. Leaves pin- 

 nate, 12 to 17 cm long, 5-foliolate, the petioles and rachis lepi- 

 dote; leaflets opposite, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, elliptic- 

 ovate, pale-olivaceous and shining when dry, 5 to 8 cm long, 

 2.5 to 3.5 cm wide, the apex rather abruptly and obtusely 

 acuminate, the base acuminate or acute, the upper surface 

 smooth, glabrous, both surfaces minutely puncticulate, the lower 

 surface sparingly cupreous-lepidote especially near the midrib 

 and nerves, ultimately glabrous ; lateral nerves about 7 on each 

 side of the midrib, slender ; petiohiles lepidote, 5 to 10 mm long. 

 Panicles axillary, solitary, about 4 cm long, branched from near 



'Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 3 (1867) 244. 



