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axillaribus, breviter pedunculatis, densis, subglobosis, circiter 1 

 cm diametro, petalis anguste spatulatis, 2 mm longis, integris; 

 capsulis ellipsoideis, compressis, dense pubescens, 1.4 ad 2 cm 

 longis, retusis. 



A woody vine, the younger parts, leaves, and inflorescences 

 prominently ciliate, the hairs spreading. Branches reddish 

 brown, somewhat lenticellate, glabrous, the branchlets conspicu- 

 ously ciliate. Leaves membranaceous, greenish when dry, 

 oblong-elliptic, 10 to 18 cm long, 3.5 to 7 cm wide, narrowed 

 below to the acute base and above to the rather slenderly 

 acuminate apex, rather prominently ciliate on both surfaces or 

 the upper surface ultimately glabrous; lateral nerves about 6 

 on each side of the midrib, prominent, the reticulations lax; 

 petioles ciliate, 4 to 7 mm long. Cymes axillary, dense, 

 subglobose, about 1 cm in diameter, short-penduncled. Sepals 

 elliptic-ovate to elliptic-obovate, pubescent, 2 to 2.5 mm long. 

 Petals glabrous, somewhat fleshy, not cleft, narrowly spatulate, 

 about 2 mm long. Filaments about 2 mm long. Ovary villous. 

 Capsules ellipsoid, compressed, 1.4 to 2 cm long, densely 

 pubescent, normally retuse at the apex with a median dividing 

 line, 2-seeded. 



Mindanao, Lanao District, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens 1039, 

 May and June, 1907 (type) ; Kolambugan, For. Bur. 23320 

 Agama, December 3, 1914; Tutunod, For. Bur. 23382 Acuna, 

 December 12, 1914. In thickets at low altitudes, ascending to 

 at least 670 meters. 



A species in many respects resembling Dichapetalum ciliatum 

 Merr. but distinguishable, among other characters, by its petals 

 being entire and not cleft at their apices. 



ANACARDIACEAE 



SEMECARPUS Linnaeus 

 SEMECARPUS SURIGAENSIS sp. nov. 



Arbor, circiter 8 m alta, inflorescentiis exceptis glaber, ramis 

 circiter 8 mm diametro; foliis subcoriaceis, oblongo-ellipticis, 

 nitidis, subtus pallidioribus, circiter 35 cm longis et 15 cm latis, 

 basi acutis, apice breviter acuminatis, nervis utrinque circiter 

 22, valde perspicuis ; inflorescentiis 6 circiter 50 cm longis, mul- 

 tifloris, pubescens ; floribus, subfasciculatis, sessilibus, 5 ad 6 mm 

 diametro, sepalis et petalis extus dense ferrugineo-pubescens. 



A tree, about 8 m high, the inflorescences and flowers ferru- 

 ginous-pubescent, otherwise glabrous or nearly so. Branches 

 terete, glabrous, the ultimate ones about 8 mm in diameter, 



