NEW PHILIPPINE PLANTS. 149 



Mindanao, Lake Laiiao, Ciami) Keitliley, Mifi. Clemens 981, March, 1907 

 ( fruit ) , June, 1907 ( flowers ) . 



A species allied to Dijsoxylum rumiiuiianum V. DC, but well characterized by 

 its strongly 3-keeled, triangular fruits. 



Dysoxylum pyriforme Merrill sp. nov. 



Arbor pavva, ramulis foliis(|ue plus minus dense hii'sutis; foliis alter- 

 nis, ca. 60 cm longis, 10-jugatis; racemis caulinibus, 2 ad 4 cm longis, 

 pauce hirsutis; floribus 4-meris; fructibus anguste pyriformibus dense 

 brunneo-lepidotis, ca. 3 cm longis. 



A small tree, the branches stout, gray or brownish, the branchlets gray, 

 lepidote, the ultimate tips densely hirsute. Leaves alternate, about 60 

 cm long, 10-jugate, odd pinnate, the petiole and rachis densely hir- 

 sute; leaflets opposite, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 6 to 14 cm long, 

 2 to 3.5 cm wide, submembranous, apex acuminate or rarely acute, base 

 subacute or rounded, sometimes inequilateral, dark above and densely 

 hirsute on the midrib and lateral nerves, and with few hairs on the sur- 

 face, beneath pale and densely hirsute; nerves 12 to 15 on each side of 

 the midrib, rather distinct; petiolules about 1 mm long. Eacemes on 

 the larger branches and trunk, solitary or two or three from the same 

 protuberance, 2 to 4 cm long, few flowered, slightly hirsute, the pedicels 

 slender, about 3 mm long. Calyx ellipsoid, about 5 mm long, constricted 

 at the apex, entire or obscurely toothed. Petals 4, oblong, about 5 mm 

 long, 2 mm wide, hirsute outside. Staminal tube glabrous, cylindrical, 

 3.5 mm long, cleft to the middle into 8 oblong 1 mm wide truncate teeth; 

 anthers 8, alternate with the teeth, 1 mm long. Disk cylindrical, 1.7 

 mm long, truncate. Ovary densely hirsute ; style short, glabrous ; stigma 

 disciform, 1 mm in diameter. Fruit narrowly pyriform, about 2 cm 

 long, ol)tuse, somewhat sulcate when dry, dehiscent, densely brown- 

 lepidote. 



INIiXDANAo, Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens 1221, 1100, September, 

 June, 1907. 



A species allied to Dysoxylum cumingianum C. DC, readily distinguished 

 however by its many-jugate leaves, racemose inflorescence and quite different 

 fruits. 



ELAEOCARPAOE.5^.. 



ELAEOCARPUS Linn. 



Elaeocarpus octopetalus Merrill sp. nov. 



Arbor ca. 23 m alta; foliis elliptico-ovatis, glal)ris, coriaceis, subinteg- 

 ris, ca. 20 cm longis; racemis axillaribus, solitariis; floribus ca. 1 cm 

 longis, sepalis 8, extus dense cinereo-pubescentibus, petalis 8, integris; 

 antheris aristatis ; ovario 2-loculari. 



A tree about 23 m high, glabrous except the inflorescence, the branches 

 terete, rather thick, gray or l)rownish. Leaves elliptical-ovate, 16 to 20 



