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the upper axils, narrowly pyramidal, 20 to 25 cm long, their 

 peduncles 4 to 6 cm long, the lower branches spreading, 4 to 

 6 cm long, the upper shorter. Flowers numerous, racemosely 

 arranged on the ultimate branchlets, their pedicels 1 mm long 

 or less, and with the calyces more or less lepidote. Calyx about 

 1.4 mm long, prominently 5-toothed, the teeth rounded or obtuse, 

 0.6 mm long. Petals 5, free, glabrous, oblong to elliptic-oblong, 

 2.7 mm long, rounded. Staminal-tube free, glabrous, subellip- 

 soid, contracted at the apex, the orifice small, round. Stamens 

 5, the anthers attached near the base of the tube, about 1 mm 

 long. 



Aglaia silvestris Merr., typified by the specimen cited above, 

 is certainly the form described and figured by Rumphius as Lan- 

 sium silvestre, the exact status of which has not been previously 

 determined. Loureiro, Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 272, placed it under 

 Quinaria lansium Lour. = Clausena punctata (Retz.) W. & A., 

 a species that has little in common with the form Rumphius 

 described. It was later referred by de Candolle, Prodr. 1 (1824) 

 537, to Cookia punctata Retz., by reduction of Quinaria lansium 

 Lour. Lansium silvestre Roem., Hesper. (1846) 99, is ap- 

 parently merely a repetition of Rumphius's name. Teysmann, 

 quoted by Hasskarl, Neue Schlussel (1866) 20, correctly placed 

 it in the genus Aglaia. 



Its alliance is with Aglaia perviridis Hiern and Aglaia laxi- 

 flora Miq., but it does not appear to be any of the numerous 

 described forms and has been accordingly redescribed here as 

 a new species. It is apparently the form described by Miquel as 

 Aglaia ganggo Miq. forma amboinensis Miq., in Ann. Mus. Bot. 

 Lugd.-Bat. 4 (1868) 47, but I consider it to be specifically distinct 

 from Aglaia ganggo Miq., of which I have a series of excellent 

 specimens. 



AGLAIA sp. 



Lansium montanum Rumph. Herb. Amb. 1: 154, t. 56. 



Probably an Aglaia, and one that should very readily be re- 

 cognized when once collected, as Rumphius's figure presents a 

 very characteristic species. Jack, Trans. Linn. Soc. 14 (1823) 

 118, considered that it closely resembled his Milnea montana, of 

 Sumatra = A #Zam; and Roemer, Hesper. (1846) 99, placed it 

 under Selbya montana Roem., perhaps based on Rumphius's Lan- 

 sium montanum, perhaps based on Milnea montana Jack (ori- 

 ginal publication not seen by me) . Teysmann, quoted by Hass- 

 karl, Neue Schlussel (1866) 20, considers it to be a species of 

 Aglaia, which is probably the correct disposition of it, although 



