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pi'diueleil. Biacts and calyx lobes i-oiuided, pubescent. Petals 2 to 2.5 cm. long, 

 about 1.5 cm. wide, rounded at tlic apex, densely appressed pubescent outside, 

 slightly pubescent inside near the base, slightly united below. Stamens indefi- 

 nite; filaments 7 to 8 mm. long, slightly united below and adnate to the corolla; 

 anthers broadly ovate, 2 mm. long. Ovary oblong ovoid, glabrous or nearly so, 

 5-celled. Fruit oblong, woody, about 3 cm. long, appressed pubescent, the back 

 of the lobes sulcate. Seeds, including the wing. 1.5 cm. long, the wing mem- 

 branous, 5 mm. wide. 



(305 Whitford) May; (2590 Meyer) February) (3732 Merrill) January; 

 (809 Borden) May. In forests and on exjwsed ridges 600 to 1,100 m. 



GUTTIFERE.^^. 



1. CRATOXYLON Blume. 



1. C. biancoi Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 2 (1856) 17. 



(1478 Ahern's coUecior) August. In thickets below 100 m. Endemic. T., 

 Guyong-giiyong. 



2. C. floribundum (Turcz.) F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 10. 



(1601, 2713, 3035 Borden) August, February, May; (27 Whitford) April; 

 (3152 Merri^) October. In thickets below 100 m. Endemic. T., Guyong-guyong. 



2. CALOPHYLLUM Linn. 



1. C. inophyllum Linn.; Vesque in DC. Prodr. 8 (1893) 544. 



(2472 Borden) January; (2303 Meyer) December; (139 Merrill) Decades 

 Phil. Forest. FL, coll. A/ier«'.s collector, July. Along the seashore, common 

 throughout the Philippines. Tropical shores of the Old World. Sp.-Fil., Pnlo- 

 mnria del phiya, Paloinaria. T., Dancahin. 



2. Calophyllum whitfordii Merrill, sp. nov. 



A tree about 20 m. high. Branches light gray, aften yellowish, glabrous, 

 shining, the ultimate branchlets often slightly angular, slender. Leaves opposite, 

 ovate-oblong to elliptical oblong, glabrous, coriaceous, the base acute, the apex 

 somewhat prominently acuminate, the acumen blunt, 6 to 8 cm. long, 2 to 4 cm. 

 wide; petioles about 1 cm. long, rugose when dry. rather slender, channeled 

 above. Panicles terminal, and in tlie upper axils, 5 cm. long or less, the pedim- 

 cles about 2 cm. long, slightly ferruginous pubescent, the branches ascending, 

 few flowered, the pedicels 6 to 10 mm. long, slender, rather densely ferruginous 

 puberuloiis. Flowers white, fragrant, 1.5 cm. in diameter. Outer two sepals 

 with few short hairs, especially near the margins, becoming glabrous or nearly 

 so, 6 mm. long, 4 mm. wide, acute or obtuse, the inner two sepals petaloid, 9 mm. 

 long, G mm. wide, louiided. Petals 4, elliptical or slightly obovate, 8 mm. long, 

 about 5.5 mm. wide. Stamens very numerous, the filaments free, 4.5 to 5 mm. 

 long; anthers about 1 iiini. long. Ovary subglobose, glabrous; style slender, f) mm. 

 long. Fruit ovoid, glabrous, about 13 mm. long, 10 mm. in diameter, minutely 

 apiculate, dark colored when dry. 



(2613 Meyer) February; 1905 (type); (336 ^VI^itford) May, 1904; (785 

 Borden) May, 1904. Forested slopes at about 700 m., recognized by its rather 

 small, acuminate leaves. T.. thdaag. S]).-Fil., Palomaria del monlc. 



A very closely related if not identical t'(n-ni, is re])resented by the following 

 specimens: (257, IUKI W'hilfonI) May, 19(14. ^MhicIi. 1!)05; ((;9()7 i:iiii<r) No- 

 vember, 1904; (1812 Borden) September, 1904; (142 Merriil] Decades Phil. 

 Forest Fl. coll. Ahei-n's collector, July, 1904. 



The above specimens, distributed as C. pscudotacaniahacd PI. et Tr.. difVer from 

 Calophyllum. whitfordii in their dark-colored branches and luanelilets. smaller. 



