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A branching shrub, about 12 feet high, glabrous, except a minute 

 and deciduous pubescence on young parts. Stipules none. Leaves 

 trifoliolate, on angled petioles of 2 or 3 inches in length. Leaflets obo- 

 vate, ample, sometimes 5 or 6 inches in length and 3 or 4 in width, 

 irregularly and mostly obscurely toothed, membranaceous in texture, 

 rounded or acute and tapering at the base, more or less petiolulate; 

 the apex obtuse, rounded, or sometimes obtusely acuminate. Pedun- 

 cles shorter than the petiole. Racemes compound, or at least trifid, 

 rarely simple, densely-flowered, shorter than the leaves. Flowers 

 polygamous, about a line in diameter, on pedicels of a line or more in 

 length. Sepals 4, orbicular-obovate, white. Petals 4, much shorter 

 than the sepals, deltoid-ovate, unguiculate, with the margins involute- 

 appendaged at the base, within densely bearded with very long, villose 

 hairs. Glands of the disk 4, scale-like, two of them larger. Stamens 

 7 or 8, shorter than the sepals : filaments sparsely bearded with long 

 hairs, like those of the petals ; the diclymous anthers also sparingly 

 pilose. Ovary didymous, only one of the lobes ripening into a globose 

 berry, of the size of a small pea. 



This species indeed resembles the East Indian S. glabra {Ornitrophe 

 glabra, Roxb. in Wall. Cat.), to which Bentham referred specimens 

 from New Guinea, New Ireland, and Amboyna ; but that has simple 

 racemes, terete petioles, &c. To the present species apparently 

 belongs Cuming's No. 1502, from the Philippine Islands. Our plant 

 does not appear to accord with the characters of any of the species of 

 Allophyllus cited by Walpers from Blume's Rurnphia; a work which 

 is not now accessible to me. 



5. MOULINSIA, Camb. 



1. MOULINSIA RUBIGINOSA, Don. 



Sapindus rubiginosus, Roxb. PL Coroni. 1, t. 62 (ex sp. Hort. Calc); DC. Prodr. 1, 



p. 608; Wight & Am. Prodr. Ind. Or. 1, p. 112. 

 S. fraxinifolius, DC. Prodr. 1, p. 608 ? 

 Motdinsia citpanioides, Cambess. Sapind. in Mem. Mus. Par. 1. c. p. 27, t. 2 ? 



Hab. Caldera, Mindanao, one of the Philippine Islands. 



