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MAGNOLIACE^E. 



Talauma grandiflora sp. nov. 



A small tree about 7 m. high, with oblong lanceolate or ovate lanceolate, 

 acuminate, glabrous, subcoriaceous leaves, solitary fragrant flowers 9 to 

 10 cm. long, and ovoid or ellipsoid fruit of about the same length. Branches 

 dark brown, striate, glabrous, or with few appressed hairs, the terminal 

 bud densely appressed pubescent. Leaves 15 to 27 cm. long, 6 to 9 cm. 

 wide, both surfaces shining, the base acute, the acumen short, blunt; 

 nerves 15 to 18 pairs, prominent, the reticulations rather dense, prom- 

 inent; petioles glabrous, or with few appressed hairs, 12 to 18 mm. long. 

 Flowers before opening ovoid, obtuse, 4.5 cm. in diameter on an annulate 

 pubescent peduncle 2 cm. long, 7 mm. thick. Sepals 3, ovate or obovate, 

 obtuse, 9 cm. long, 5 to 6 cm. wide, glabrous, or at first slightly pubescent, 

 and densely so at the very base. Petals 6, in two whorls, the outer ones 

 obovate, 9 cm. long, 5 to 5.5 cm. wide, glabrous, obtuse, fleshy, the inner 

 ones thicker and narrower. Ovaries 2 ovuled; styles pubescent. Anthers 

 sessile, about 15 mm. long. Ripe fruit 9 to 10 cm. long, 6 cm. thick, obtuse, 

 glabrous, the individual carpels about 75 in each fruit, 2.5 to 3 cm. long, 

 the beak terminal, 5 mm. long. 



Type specimen No. 314 (Forestry Bureau), collected by J. A. Gammill, 

 Nagaba, Guimaras Island, February, 1904; No. 861 (Forestry Bureau), 

 collected by Gammill, same locality, June, 1904, is the same. A small 

 tree reaching a diameter of 15 cm., growing in dry soil at *an elevation 

 of about 200 m. above the sea, the trunk straight, cylindrical, 2 m. to 

 the first branches, the branches ascending, bark gray, wood white. V., 

 Tabhisan. 



ANONACE^E. 



Goniothalamus elmeri sp. nov. 



A shrub 3 or 4 m. high, with oblong, narrowly oblong or rather broadly 

 oblanceolate abruptly blunt acuminate glabrous leaves, and solitary axillary 

 pendulous, dull red flowers, the style cylindrical, the stigma minutely and 

 equally 2-toothed. Branches light brown or grayish, striate, glabrous. 

 Leaves 12 to 18 cm. long, 4 to 6 cm. wide, subcoriaceous, the base acute; 

 nerves 12 to 15 on each side of the midrib, not prominent, the reticu- 

 lations lax, obscure; petioles glabrous, rugose, 5 mm. long. Flowers 3 

 cm. long, solitary, from the axils of fallen leaves, their pedicels 1.5 cm. 

 long, nearly glabrous, or with very few scattered appressed rufous hairs, 

 and with 4 to 6 pairs of small distichous, ovate, acute, sparingly rufous 

 pubescent bracts 2 mm. long or less, near the base of the pedicel. Sepals 

 broadly ovate or suborbicular, obtuse, about 1 cm. long, very slightly 

 pubescent with appressed, scattered, rufous hairs. Petals with very few 

 appressed, scattered, rufous hairs, the outer ones ovate, acute, 3 cm. long, 

 15 to 18 mm. wide, the keel scarcely evident; inner petals broadly ovate, 

 acute, 1 cm. long, the keel slightly evident. Stamens numerous, 3 mm. 

 long, the apical appendage orbicular, 0.5 mm. long. Ovaries indefinite, 



