338 MERRILL. 



iiuiif liavo (luadripiiinate ones, all having bi- or tripinnate leaves or both. Blanco's 

 work shows internal evidence that the various species were described from time 

 to time, in a period extending over many years, sometimes from fresh material, 

 at other times from dried specimens brought or sent to him by various persons. 

 It seems very evident, moreover, tliat he had no iierbarium. so that the probability 

 of repetitions was thereby increased. 



As to Stercospernnuii seemannii Rolfe, after an examination of several speci- 

 mens of each of tlie numbers secured by Cuming, including the type of 8. 

 seemannii, I can see no reason for separating it from Raderniachera pinnata. The 

 type, Cuming 996, and such duplicates of the type number as I have seen, one 

 of which is before me, are very fragmentary, with detiiched leaflets and badly 

 insect-eaten flowers, and appear to be in all respects the same as Blanco's S2>ecies. 



9. Radermachera mindorensis sj). nov. 



Htereoftpermum jnnnahim Kolfe in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 21 (1884) 314; Vidal 

 Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 203, not MiIlin<ilonia piruiaia Blanco. 

 Htereospermuni qitadripinnatum Naves in Fl. Filip. cd. 3, t. 252? 



Arbor glabra, usque ad 20 m alta; foliis tri])innHtis, rariler bipiima- 

 tis, 40 ad 50 cm longis; foliolis lanceolatis vel ol)longo-lanceolatis, basi 

 acutis, apice caudato-acuminatis, chartaceis, 8 ad 11 cm longis; panicu- 

 lis terminalibus, diffusis, folia aeqiiantibus vol longioribus ; floribus eir- 

 citer 1.5 cm longis. 



A tree glabrous throughout, about 20 m high. Branches terete, 

 brown or gray, lenticellate. Leaves tripinnate, rarely bipinnate, 40 

 to 50 cm long, the rachis lenticellate; leaflets lanceolate or ol^long-lan- 

 ceohite, chartaceous, somewhat shining, 8 to 11 cm long, 2 to 3.5 cm 

 wide, the base acute or somewhat acuminate, the apex slenderly caudate- 

 acuminate, the acumen about 2 cm long, acute; neiTCs about 12 on each 

 side of the midrib, anastomosing, slightly more distinct than are the 

 secondary ones and reticulations; petiolules of the lateral leaflets about 5 

 mm long, those of the terminal leaflets 1 to 2 cm long. Panicles ter- 

 minal, gUdjrous, diffuse, equaling or longer than the leaves, the rachis 

 frequently lenticellate. Flowers light-i)ui'ple. C*alyx somewliat camj^an- 

 ulate, 4 to 5 mm long, closed in bud, in anthesis slioi'tly and irregularlv 

 r5- to 5-toothed. Corolla 1.5 to 1.8 cm long, tlu' portion within tlie calyx 

 slender, tubular, then abruptly enlargi'd and tubular-cam})aiuilato, some- 

 what jnibescent on tbe outside, irregularly lobed. Capsules 15 cm long, 

 4 to 5 mm in (liamcter, somewhat conqtressed ; seeds, incliidin;^' lh(> wings, 

 al)out i;{ mm long. 



Ml.XDOKO, Calapan, Mcnill S'.i.i (type). April, \W.i; I'ola. Morill 22.',0, 2'i7.i, 

 May, June, 1903; Bongabong Kivcr, WliUford 1387, January. I'.HKi; Baco River. 

 McOrcfior ^.57, April, lilO"), witli larger flowers tlinii llic lyix". Bongabong. 

 Ilirkmati s. )i. 



Allied to the i)receding sj)eeics, lait with nnu-h more difl'usc j)aiiicles, and uuwh 

 smaller (lowers. 1 am disposed li> nt'i r licre Ciimiiifi /.W7. which was from the 

 Island of Mindoro. according to C'\iming's list at Kew, not from Batangas Prov- 

 ince, Luzon, according to the labels on .some of the s|)('cimens. Jt was refened by 

 Rolfe to HlrrcoNprrminii pinmttum F.-\'ill.. luit llic sliccl at Kew, which I have 

 examined, has al least bipiiuiate leaves, and rmt pinnate ones as stati'd by Rolfe, 

 and is ccitaiiily not tiic -ianic as \l illlniiloiiid /linimhi I'.lanci). 



