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pair of ovate 1 em long Ijracts at aliont tlio middle and each with a terminal 

 head of perfect flowers 1.5 to 2 cm in diameter. Sterile flowers, in the 

 middle sessile head, many, pedicellate; the pedicels 1 to 2 cm long, with 

 numerous basal hracteoles. Perfect flowers in the lateral heads many, 

 sessile, crowded in dense ovoid heads, subtended by numerous small hrac- 

 teoles. Calyx somewhat funnel-shaped, more or less angular, 3 nun long, 

 2 mm thick, truncate. Petals 5 or 6, ohlong, in hud 4 mm long. Sta- 

 mens 5 or (). Ovary 5- or G-celled. Fruit crowded in dense ovoid or 

 ellipsoid heads 3 to 4 cm long, 2.5 to 3 cm thick, the individual fruits 

 narrowly ohovoid, strongly 5- or 6-ridged, 5- or 6-celled, the ridges acute. 



MixDANAO, District of Davao, Copeland J,6Jh March, 1904: District of Zam- 

 boaiiga, Ahem 398, ]\Iarch, 1901: Lake Lanao, Camp Keitliley, Mrs. VIcmens 

 1191, September, 1907: District of Zamboanga, Sax River, Williams 2150, Febru- 

 ary, 1905. Specimens collected by Hallier near Zamboanga, Mindanao, and on 

 Basilan Island in January and February, 1904, may prove to be the same species. 



A species recognizable by its very large 10- to 14-lobed leaves and 5- or 6-merous 

 flowers. 



Boerlagiodendron dementis jNIerrill sp. nov. 



Arhor vel arhuscula; foliis glahris, suhmemhranaceis, 20 ad 30 cm 

 longis, palmato 5-7-lobatis, lohis irregulariter grosse sinuatis, acuminatis, 

 inflorescentiis subglahris vel glahris ; floribus 4-meris. 



A shrub or tree, glabrous or nearly so. Leaves 20 to 30 cm long, 

 glabrous, suhmembranous, truncate or cordate at the base, palmately 5- 

 to 7-lobed, the lobes reaching to within 3 to 5 cm of the base, the sinuses 

 broad, rounded, the lobes 6 to 8 cm wide, irregularly toothed and each 

 with two or three large latei'al lobules, these lobules ovate to oblong, 

 toothed, acuminate, 2.5 to 4 cm long; petioles about 40 cm long, and 

 with three or four crests at the base. Umbels compound, the peduncles 

 10 to 12, 2 to 3 cm long, subtended at the base by numerous oblong, 

 deciduous, coriaceous, strigose bracts 1 to 1.5 cm long, the peduncles 

 nearly glabrous, bibracteolate at the apex and hearing a sessile central 

 head of sterile flowers and two lateral branches 2 to 2.5 cm long, each 

 branch bibracteolate at about the middle and bearing a dense globose 

 head of perfect flowers 1 cm in diameter or less, the bracteoles in both 

 kinds of heads minute or wanting. Perfect flowers sessile. Calyx 

 ol)long, about 2 mm long, 1 mm thick, more or less quadrangular, glabrou.s, 

 truncate. Petals 4, in bud 3 mm long. Stamens 4. Ovary 4-celled. 

 Sterile flowers pedicelled, pedicels about 5 mm long, glabrous, ovaries 

 ovoid, 3- or 2-cellcd. Fruit ovoid, about 7 mm long, 4-sulcate and 4- 

 angled, 4-celled. 



;Minda.\ao. Lake Lanao, (amp KeithkiV, Mrs. Clemens 91, January, 190(5: 

 For. Bur. 3921 Hniehinson, March, 1906. 



A species recognizable by its 5- to 7-lobed leaves, nearly glabrous inflorescence, 

 absence of bracteoles in the flou-er-heads, and by its 4-merous flowers. Among the 

 Philippine forms most closely allied to an undescribed species from Luzon. 



