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slender. Inflorescences reduced to simple, axillary, solitary 
racemes up to 15 cm in length, the rachis, pedicels, and calyces 
densely pubescent. Flowers yellow, their pedicels up to 1 cm in 
length. Calyx about 8 mm long. Standard about 1.4 cm long, 
the claw stout, 4 mm long, cuneate, the limb 8 to 9 mm wide; 
wings inequilateral, their claws slender, 4.5 mm long, their limbs 
oblong, 9 mm long; keel-petals 10 mm long, very inequilateral 
at the base. Staminal tube split down one side, all filaments 
united. Ovary densely pubescent. Fruit orbicular or suborbi- 
cular, brown, thin, 4 to 5.5 cm in diameter, more or less pubes- 
cent, base inequilateral, the central 2.5 cm with numerous, 
slender, straight, 2 to 4 mm long spines. 
Luzon, Bontoc Subprovince, Banco, Vanoverbergh 3959 (type), Feb- 
ruary 1915, altitude about 1,300 meters, locally known as narra: Lepanto 
Subprovince, Cervantes, Sandkuhl 286, February 7, 1915. 
A species manifestly allied to Pterocarpus echinatus Pers. (P. vidalianus 
Rolfe), but at once distinguished by its very dense indumentum, P. echi- 
natus Pers. being glabrous. 
CYNOMETRA Linnaeus 
CYNOMETRA BIFOLIOLATA sp. nov. 
Arbor glabra, ramis tenuibus, teretibus, lenticellatis ; foliis 
bifoliolatis, foliolis oblongis ad oblongo-ellipticis, leviter inaequi- 
lateralibus, obtusis, basi acutis, subcoriaceis, nitidis, usque ad 10 
cm longis, nervis primariis utrinque circiter 10, tenuibus ; petio- 
lulis 5 ad 8 mm longis; racemis axillaribus, fasciculatis, confer- 
tis, baud 1 cm longis, multifloris, bracteis reniformibus, striatis, 
circiter 2 mm longis; ovario glabro vel leviter pubescente; sta- 
minibus 10. 
A glabrous tree attaining a height of about 10 m, the branches 
slender, terete, lenticellate, grayish when dry, smooth. Leaves 
bifoliolate, the petioles 5 mm long or less, the petiolules 5 to 8 
mm long ; leaflets subcoriaceous, oblong to oblong-elliptic, rather 
pale and shining when dry, 8 to 10 cm long, 3 to 4.5 cm wide, 
apex obtuse, base acute, slightly inequilateral; primary lateral 
nerves about 10 on each side of the midrib, slender, anasto- 
mosing, scarcely more distinct than are the secondary ones. 
Flowers white, fragrant, the short racemes crowded in axillary, 
rather dense, subcapitate inflorescences, the axis of the racemes 
4 mm long or less ; bracts striate, renif orm, about 2 mm long and 
4 mm wide, margins pubescent; pedicels about 4 mm long, 
glabrous. Sepals oblong, obtuse, about 2.3 mm long. Stamens 
10 ; filaments about 4 mm long. Ovary inequilateral, oblong. 
