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capitato-umbellatis, umbellulis breviter pedunculatis, paucifloris, 

 in ramis secondares racemose dispositis; floribus 5-meris, bre- 

 vissime pedicellatis vel subsessilibus, petalis 1.8 mm longis. 



An epiphytic shrub, glabrous except the inflorescence. Leaves 

 6- to 8-foliolate, their petioles 6 to 8 cm long, inflated and clasp- 

 ing at the base, the petiolules 2.5 to 5 cm long ; leaflets obovate, 

 subcoriaceous, rather pale and prominently shining when dry, 

 7 to 12 cm long, 5 to 6 cm wide, entire, the apex rather abruptly 

 and shortly acuminate, base acute ; primary lateral nerves about 

 12 on each side of the midrib, slender, distinct. Panicles ter- 

 minal, quadripinnate, peduncled, pale-furfuraceous, the indu- 

 mentum more or less deciduous on the older parts, the peduncles 

 up to 6 cm in length, the rachis and peduncle at least 20 cm 

 in length; primary branches up to 23 cm long, numerous, race- 

 mosely arranged, each subtended by an ovate to oblong-ovate, 

 acuminate, 5 to 8 mm long bract ; secondary branches numerous, 

 slender, 2.5 to 3.5 cm long, racemosely disposed on the primary 

 ones; flowers small, 5-merous, capitate-umbellate, the umbels 5- 

 to 8-flowered, numerous, shortly peduncled, racemosely ar- 

 ranged, their peduncles about 2 mm long. Petals about 1.8 mm 

 long. Flowers 5-merous, subsessile or the pedicels up to 0.5 

 mm in length. 



Luzon, Laguna Province, San Antonio, Bur. Sci. 2382It Ramos, October 

 19, 1915, on trees in damp forests. 



This species is well characterized by its ample, many-flowered, quad- 

 ripinnately paniculate inflorescence; the elongated primary branches which 

 are racemosely arranged on the produced rachis; the numerous, short, 

 slender, racemosely arranged secondary branches; and the capitate-um- 

 bellate, few-flowered, racemosely arranged, short-peduncled umbels. 



MYRSINACEAE 

 MAESA Forskal 

 MAESA BRUNNEA sp. nov. § Eumaesa. 



Frutex glaber; foliis chartaceis ad subcoriaceis, late ovatis 

 ad oblongo-ovatis, usque ad 14 cm longis, apice breviter acu- 

 minatis, basi subtruncato-rotundatis ad subacutis, margine un- 

 dulatis et distanter calloso-crenatis, utrinque lineis nervillifor- 

 mibus praeditis, supra subolivaceis, subtus brunneis, nervis 

 primariis utrinque 5 vel 6, conspicuis, reticulis obsoletis vel 

 subobsoletis ; inf ructescentiis axillaribus, depauperato-panicula- 

 tis, usque ad 4 cm longis; fructibus elliptico-ovoideis, circiter 

 5 mm longis, sepalis latissime ovatis, obtusis, obscurissime 

 punctatis, margine minutissime ciliatis. 



A glabrous shrub, the branches dark-brown, terete, lenticel- 



