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minate, the base broad, rounded ; nerves prominent, parallel, about 20 pairs ; 

 petiolules stout, rugose, slightly pubescent, about 1 cm. long. Branches 

 and branchlets of the inflorescence densely appressed, grayish-brown pubes- 

 cent, the ultimate branchlets 10 to 25 cm. long. Flowers solitary or 

 in fascicles of 3 to 5 on the branchlets, sessile or nearly so. Calyx about 3 

 mm. long, appressed grayish-brown pubescent, with four broad, obscure 

 teeth. Petals 4, 1.5 cm. long, 3 mm. wide, acute, valvate in bud, the 

 outside densely appressed grayish-brown pubescent. Staminal tube free, 

 about 14 mm. long, tubular, the apex obscurely toothed. Stamens 8, 

 inserted near the top of the tube; anthers 1.4 mm. long. Ovary pubescent, 

 4-celled; style filiform, glabrous; disc 8 mm. long, tubular, ciliate at the 

 apex. 



Type specimen No. 632 (H. N. Whitford), Atimonan, Province of 

 Tayabas, Luzon, August 15, 1904. A small tree growing along streams 

 at an altitude of about 100 m. above the sea. 



SABIACE^E. 



Meliosma luzonensis sp. nov. 



A tree with odd pinnate 4 to 5 jugate leaves 20 cm. long or less, the 

 leaflets glabrous or nearly so, their margins entire or distantly spinulose 

 serrate above, and many flowered panicles which are shorter than the 

 leaves. Branches thick, dark brown, glabrous, the tips more or less 

 deciduously tomentose, the terminal bud densely ferruginous pubescent. 

 Leaves opposite or subopposite, the rhachis 7 to 13 cm. long, deciduously 

 ferruginous tomentose; leaflets firm, opposite or subopposite, ovate, ovate 

 lanceolate or oblong, 3 to 7 cm. long, 2 to 3 cm. wide, the base rounded or 

 rarely subacute, the apex acuminate, upper surface glabrous, shining, the 

 lower surface pale, at first with few hairs on the midrib and prominent 

 veins, soon becoming glabrous except for the barbate vein axils, the margins 

 entire below, above distantly spinulous serrate; nerves 8 to 10 on each 

 side of the midrib, rather prominent beneath, anastomosing, the reticula- 

 tions lax; petiolules about 5 mm. long, that of the terminal leaflet 1 cm. 

 long, at first sparingly pilose, becoming glabrous. Panicles erect, 15 cm. 

 long, the- rhachis and branches dark brown pubescent, the peduncle 6 cm. 

 long becoming nearly glabrous, the branches spreading, the lower ones 

 5 to 6 cm. long, the upper ones gradually shorter. Flowers dull white, 

 2 to 2.5 mm. long, the pedicels densely ferruginous pubescent, 1 mm. long 

 or less. Sepals ovate, 2 mm. long, subacute glabrous except the slightly 

 ciliate margins, the bracteole about equaling the sepals. Outer petals 

 three, orbicular, glabrous, 2.5 to 3 mm. in diameter, the inner two opposite 

 the fertile stamens and slightly adnate to them, deeply cleft, forming two 

 slender teeth 0.8 mm. long. Fertile stamens 2, 2 mm. long, the anther 

 1 mm. broad; sterile stamens 3, opposite the outer petals, about 1 mm. 

 long. Ovary 1 -celled, 2-ovuled, glabrous. 



Type specimen No. 6267 (A. D. E. Elmer), Mount Santo Tomas, Province 

 of Benguet, Luzon, May, 1904. A tree 8 to 10 m. high and 30 cm. in 

 diameter, with soft wood and thick, checked bark growing on exposed ridges 



