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olivaceous, the lower pale when dry, apex shortly acumin- 

 ate, gradually narrowed in the lower two-thirds to three-fourths 

 to the narrow and abruptly rounded or obtuse base, which is at 

 most 2.5 cm wide ; midrib very stout, the primary lateral nerves 

 30 to 35 on each side of the midrib, somewhat curved, anas- 

 tomosing, prominent, the reticulations rather lax, distinct, the 

 secondary nervules leaving the nerves at about right angles; 

 petioles very stout, about 1 cm long or less, panicles teiTninal, 

 about 20 cm long, more or less pubescent, the primary branches 

 few, up to 8 cm long. Immature fruits oblong, about 1 cm long, 

 glabrous ; hypocarp somewhat turbinate, about 4 mm long, black 

 when dry, cinereous-pubescent. 



Panay, Capiz Province, Mount Madiaas, Bur. Sci. 30711 

 Ramos & EdaTio, May 12, 1918, in forests. 



This species is manifestly allied to Semecarpus gigantifolia 

 F.-Vill. and like that species is unbranched. It differs essentially 

 in its terminal, not cauline, inflorescences which are more or less 

 pubescent and in its distinctly pubescent hypocarps. 



SEMECARPUS FERRUGINEA sp. nov. 



Arbor parva, ramulis inflorescentiisque ferrugineo-pubes- 

 cens; foliis oblanceolatis ad oblongo-oblanceolatis, coriaceis, 

 nitidis, acuminatis, basi angustatis, subtus glaucis, nervis 

 utrinque 12 ad 14, perspicuis; paniculis terminalibus, usque ad 

 28 cm longis; fructibus oblique ovoideis, glabris, 1.2 cm longis, 

 hypocarpio ferrugineo-pubescens. 



A small tree, the branchlets, inflorescences, and hypocarps 

 more or less ferruginous-pubescent. Leaves oblanceolate to 

 oblong-oblanceolate, coriaceous, 12 to 16 cm long, 3 to 4.5 cm 

 wide, apex slightly acuminate, somewhat nai'rowed below to the 

 cuneate or obtuse base, the upper surface brownish-olivaceous, 

 shining, glabrous except the pubescent midrib, the lower surface 

 glaucous, slightly pubescent along the midrib and nerves ; lateral 

 nerves 12 to 14 on each side of the midrib, curved, anastomosing, 

 the reticulations rather lax, distinct, the primary nervules leav- 

 ing the nerves at nearly right angles ; petioles stout, 7 to 10 mm 

 long, sulcate on the upper side, pubescent. Panicles terminal, in 

 fruit up to 28 cm long, the rachis and branches densely ferrug- 

 inous-pubescent, the primary branches few, scattered, the longer 

 ones about 6 cm in length. Fruits obliquely ovoid, glabrous, 

 black and somewhat shining when dry, about 1.2 cm long, the 

 very young ones with a few ferruginous hairs; hypocarps 5 to 

 7 mm long, ferruginous-pubescent, the indumentum somewhat 

 deciduous ; pedicels 5 to 8 mm long. 



