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nearly glabrous, oblong-ovate, acute or obscurely broadly acuminate, 4 nnn 

 long, 2.5 mm wide. Stamens 6, free; filaments 3 mm long; anthers 1.3 

 mm long. Ovary glabrous or nearly s(X Disk wanting. Fruit oblong- 

 ovoid, 1 to L5 cm long, 7 to 8 iiiiii thick, glabrous, rugose, gray, not com- 

 j)ressed or angular. 



Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp Keitliley, Mrs. Clemciis s. n., February, March, 

 1907, also no. 759, September, 1906, and no. lllSa, September, 1907. 



A species well characterized by its paniculate inflorescence, fasciculate sessile 

 flowers, and its leaflets wliich are usually strongly ferruginous beneath and densely 

 pubescent or puberulent. 



SANTIRIA Blunio. 



Santiria glabra Meriiil sp. nov. § Eiisantiria. 



Arbor, omnil)us partibus glabratis; i'oliis imparipinnatis, 1-o-jugatis, 

 foliolis oblongo-ovatis vel oblongis, acuminatis, 6 ad 9 cm longis, nervis 

 utrinque ca. 7; paniculis axillaribus, e basi ramosis; fioribus minutis, 

 antheris dorsifLxis ; staminibus liberis, extra discum insertis. 



A tree, glabrous throughout. Branches light-gray, slender, terete. 

 Leaves odd pinnate, 1- to 3- jugate, the rachis and petiole 10 cm 

 long or less; leaflets oblong-ovate to oblong, subcoriaceous, shining on 

 both surfaces, paler beneath, 6 to 9 cm long, 2.5 to 4 cm Avide, apex 

 rather long and gradually acuminate, the acumen blunt, base acute, often 

 somewhat inequilateral ; nerves about 7 on each side of the midrib, some- 

 what prominent beneath, anastomosing, the reticulations lax; petiolules 

 about 1 cm long, slender. Panicles axillary, solitary, -1 to 6 cm long, 

 branched from the base. Flowers small. Calyx 3-lobed, lobes broadly 

 triangular-ovate, acute. Petals 3, orbicular-ovate, obtuse, 2 mm wide at 

 the base, al)out 1.7 mm long. Stamens 6, free, inserted outside the fleshy 

 G-ridged disk, filaments very short; anthers 0.5 mm long. Style very 

 short. 



Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens s. n., April, 1907. 



A species well characterized by being glabrous throughout; the second one of 

 the genus to be found in the Philippines. 



MELIACE^E. 



CLEMENSIA Merrill gen. nov. 



Flores polygamo-dioici, 8-nieri, majusculi. Calyx cupularis, grosse 

 4-dentatus vel lobatus. Petala 8, in aestivatione subvalvata, spatulata, 

 inferne cuui tul)o stamineo plus minus connata. Stamina in tubum 

 cylindricum, laciniatum, petal is l)reviorem, intus sub apice 30-antheri- 

 feruni coalita, antheris plus minus hirsutis, cum tubi laciniis alternan- 

 tibus. Discus in floribus hermaphroditis nullus, in floribus masculinis 

 brevissime annulatus. Ovarium liberum, hirsutum, 5-loculare, loculis 

 1-ovulatis. Stylus elongatus, hirsutus, stigmate capitato terminatus. 

 Fructus indehiscens, 5-locularis. Semina crassa. Cot3dedones crassae, 



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