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Rolfe. This very characteristic species is common and widely distributed 

 in the Philippines and, like numerous other strongly marked and charac- 

 teristic types, is otherwise known only from Celebes and New Guinea. 



AGLAIA PYRIFORMIS sp. nov. § Heamia. 



Arbor parva, partibus junioribus dense cupreo-lepidotis ; 

 foliis alternis, circiter 20 cm longis, foliolis 7, oblongis, coriaceis, 

 usque ad 10 cm longis, acutis vel brevissime acuminatis, basi 

 acutis ad obtusis, subaequilateralibus, utrinque minute puncti- 

 culatis, subtus ad costa et nervis cupreo-lepidotis, nervis late- 

 ralibus utrinque 8 vel 9, perspicuis, curvatis, evanescentibus 

 vel obscure anastomosantibus, reticulis obsoletis; paniculis axil- 

 laribus, usque ad 18 cm longis, angustis; floribus 5-meris, race- 

 mose dispositis, circiter 3 mm diametro; fructibus anguste 

 obovoideis, usque ad 2.5 cm longis, extus dense minuteque cupreo- 

 lepidotis. 



A tree about 5 m high, the younger branches, petioles, petio- 

 lules, midrib and lateral nerves on the lower surface of the leaf- 

 lets, panicles, and fruits densely cupreous-lepidote. Leaves 

 alternate, about 20 cm long; leaflets 7, oblong, coriaceous, min- 

 utely puncticulate on both surfaces, rather pale M^hen dry, shin- 

 ing, 5 to 10 cm long, 2.5 to 4 cm wide, subequally narrowed to 

 the acute or obscurely acuminate apex and to the acute or some- 

 what obtuse base, the midrib very prominent on the lower sur- 

 face; lateral nerves 8 or 9 pairs, prominent, curved, evanescent 

 or obscurely anastomosing, the reticulations obsolete; petiolules 

 1 cm long or less. Panicles axillary, up to 20 cm long, narrow, 

 the lower branches 3 cm long or less, the flowers racemosely 

 arranged on the ultimate branchlets, rather few. Flowers pink, 

 5-merous, their pedicels stout, 2 mm long or less. Calyx 2 mm 

 long, ovoid, the lobes lepidote, obtuse, coriaceous. Petals 5, 

 free, about 2 mm long, oblong-elliptic, rounded. Staminal-tube 

 turbinate, free, 1 mm long, about 1.5 mm in diameter, truncate. 

 Anthers 5 or 6, inserted on the edge of the tube, inflexed, 0.8 

 mm long. Fruits narrowly obovoid, dark-brown when dry, 

 rounded, gradually narrowed below, up to 2.5 cm long, externally 

 very densely and minutely cupreous-lepidote. 



Luzon, Tayabas Province, Mount Dingalan, Bur. Sci. 2660i Ramos & 

 Edano, September 9, 1916, in forests, altitude about 300 meters. 



A most characteristic species, distinguishable by its indumentum; its 

 coriaceous puncticulate leaflets; the prominent evanescent nerves; the 

 obsolete reticulations; and its dark-brown, pyriform fruits. 



AGLAIA PUNCTICULATA sp. nov. § Heamia. 



Frutex circiter 2 m altus, partibus junioribus foliolis subtus 

 ad costa nervis et paniculis dense cupreo-lepidotis ; foliis circiter 



