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Type specimen No. 5999 (A. D. E. Elmer), Baguio, Province of Benguet, 

 Luzon, March, 1904, growing in thickets in gulches along streams. A small 

 tree reaching a diameter of about 15 cm.; not common. 



THEACE^E. 



Adinandra luzonica sp. nov. 



A small tree 7 to 9 m. high, with subcoriaceous, oblong, acute, rarely 

 slightly acuminate, nearly glabrous leaves, and solitary white fragrant 

 flowers about 2 cm. in diameter. Branches dark grayish brown, striate, 

 glabrous, the ultimate branchlets more or less appressed pubescent. Leaves 

 5 to 8 cm. long, 1.5 to 3.5 cm. wide, the base acute, the margins revolute, 

 and minutely and obscurely distantly serrate, nearly entire, the upper 

 surface glabrous except for the more or less pubescent midrib, the lower 

 surface slightly pubescent, with few scattered hairs, becoming glabrous; 

 nerves 14 to 15 pairs, not prominent, freely anastomosing, the secondary 

 nerves and the reticulations nearly as prominent as the primary nerves; 

 petioles about 3 mm. long, slightly pubescent. Flowers axillary, the pedun- 

 cle pubescent, becoming glabrous, 10 to 12 mm. long. Sepals densely ap- 

 pressed villous outside, glabrous inside, broadly ovate, obtuse, 1 cm. long, 9 

 mm. wide, the two outer ones thicker, the margins thin, entire, minutely 

 ciliate. Petals obovate, obtuse, slightly united at the base, 10 mm. long, 

 9 mm. wide, the median portions outside, densely appressed villous, the 

 broad margins glabrous. Stamens epipetalous, about 50, 6 to 8 mm. long, 

 the anthers 3 to 3.5 mm. long, villous, the filaments more or less united, 

 villous. Ovary ovoid, densely villous, 5-celled, each cell with many ovules; 

 style glabrous. Fruit unknown. 



Type specimens: No. 446 (Whitford), growing on exposed, wind-swept 

 ridges, Mount Mariveles, Province of Bataan, Luzon, July 21, 1904, 

 altitude, 1,200 m.; No. 1360 (Forestry Bureau), collected by Borden, same 

 locality, July, 1904. 



A species apparently closely related to Adinandra integerrima T. Anders., 

 but differing especially in its leaf characters and its obovate obtuse petals. 



DIPTEROCARPACE2E. 



Shorea polysperma (Blanco) Merrill, Govt. Lab. Publ. 20:22, 1905. 



(Mocanera polysperma Blanco, Fl. Filip. ed. 1, 448. 1837; Diptero- 



carpus polyspermus Blanco, 1. c., ed. 2, 312. 1845; ed. 3, 2:213; 



Hopea tangili Blume, Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 2:35, 1856; Shorea 



talura F.-Vill. Nov. App. 21, 1880, non Roxb.) 



A very large tree, with narrowly ovate, or ovate lanceolate, acuminate 

 leaves, pubescent imbricate sepals, and pubescent ovary. Branches dark 

 brown, glabrous. Leaves 8 to 11 cm. long, 3 to 5 mm. wide, shining, 

 subcoriaceous, the base rounded, rarely somewhat acute, the apex usually 

 rather long acuminate; nerves 10 to 12 pairs, subprominent, ascending; 

 petioles 2 cm. long, glabrous, or at first pubescent. Panicles 20 cm. long 



