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floribus ignotis, racemis axillaribus, solitariis, usque ad 10 cm 
longis; leguminibus 1-spermis, oblongo-ellipticis, 6 cm longis, 3 
cm latis, 1 cm crassis, utrinque angustatis, basi acutis, apice 
rostrato-acuminatis, valvis lignosis. 
A tree about 7 m high, glabrous except the inflorescence. 
Branches terete, lenticellate, grayish or reddish-brown. Leaves 
alternate, odd-pinnate, the petiole and rachis 10 to 12 cm long; 
leaflets usually 7, subcoriaceous, ovate to oblong-ovate, up to 
13 cm long and 4.5 cm wide, the apex shortly and obtusely 
acuminate, the base usually rounded, equilateral or somewhat 
inequilateral, the upper surface brownish-olivaceous when dry, 
shining, the lower paler; lateral nerves about 9 on each side 
of the midrib, prominent; petiolules 5 to 8 mm long. Flowers 
not known, the persistent rachises of the racemes axillary, soli- 
tary, thickened, somewhat pubescent, with numerous thickened 
protuberances. Pods brown when dry, oblong-elliptic, 1-seeded, 
woody, about 6 cm long, 3 cm wide, and at least 1 cm thick, 
narrowed below to the acute base and above to the rostrate- 
acuminate apex, glabrous, the corners rounded, not angled, the 
valves woody, shining, smooth. Seed solitary, subelliptic, some- 
what narrowed to the rounded ends, about 3.5 cm long, 2.3 cm 
wide, and nearly 1 cm thick. 
Palawan, Silanga, in deserted clearings on slopes, Merrill 9578, May 
24, 1913. 
A species well characterized by its very thick, woody, 1-seeded pods. 
CROTALARI A Linnaeus 
CROTALARI A ORIXENSSS Willd in Ges. Naturf. Fr. Neue Schr. 4 
(1803) 217; Baker in Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 2 (1876) 83. 
Luzon, Manila, Bur. Sci. 191U5 Guerrero, December, 1912, in waste 
places, certainly of recent introduction. 
For the identification of the above specimen I am indebted to Sir D. 
Prain, director of the Royal Gardens, Kew, England, to whom a specimen 
was sent. The species is of wide distribution in British India (Western 
Peninsula), in Abyssinia, and is reported from tropical Africa. It is 
undoubtedly a recent introduction in the Philippines. 
SIMARUBACEAE 
BRUCEA J. S. Miller 
BRUCEA AMARISSIMA (Lour.) comb. nov. 
Gonus amarissimus Lour. FI. Cochinch. (1790) 658. 
Brucea. sumatrana Roxb. Hort. Beng. (1814) 12, FI. Ind., ed. Carey, 
1 (1832) 449; Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 1 (1875) 521; Lecomte FI. 
Gen. Indo-Chine 1 (1911) 698. 
This widely distributed Indo-Malayan species is apparently quite common 
in the southern Philippines, and is represented in our collections by spec- 
imens from Negros, Leyte, Camiguin, Cebu, Palawan, Basilan, and Min- 
