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The Philippine Journal of Science 
1915 
Leaves ample, up to 70 cm long, the petiole long, about 5 mm 
in diameter, and with the rachis and petiolules puberulent; leaf- 
lets ovate to oblong, 15 to 25 cm long, 8 to 11 cm wide, chartace- 
ous to subcoriaceous, brown and shining when dry, the lower 
surface a little paler than the upper, entire, apex acuminate, 
base rounded, subtruncate, or slightly cordate, broad, equilateral, 
the upper surface quite glabrous, the lower pubescent on the 
midrib; petiolules 1 to 2 cm long; stipules not seen, apparently 
early deciduous. Panicles axillary, solitary, 15 cm long or less, 
narrowly pyramidal, branched at or above the middle, the 
branches few, scattered, the lower ones 2.5 cm long or less, each 
branch with one or two long-pedicelled, ebracteolate flowers, or 
if the bracteoles are present then small and early deciduous; 
pedicels 1 cm long or less. Flowers 3-merous, about 8 mm long, 
the calyx cylindric, 6 to 7 mm long, puberulent, the teeth three, 
broadly triangular-ovate, acute, 2 mm long. Petals 3, oblong, 
obtuse, 6 to 7 mm long, 3 mm wide, the upper one-third spread- 
ing. Stamens 6 ; filaments 2 mm long, nearly free, flattened and 
slightly enlarged below, apparently connate into a short obscure 
disk. Ovary ellipsoid, glabrous, about 4 mm long, narrowed 
upward into the short, cylindric, stout, 1 mm long style; stigma 
capitate. 
Masbate, Marintoc River, P. T. Barnes, May, 1903, distributed as 
Merrill 2618. In forests along the river, altitude about 16 m, locally 
known as pili and yielding a white resin. 
A species manifestly allied to Canarium luzonicum A. Gray, but well 
characterized by its large leaves, ample leaflets, and especially by its 
narrowly pyramidal, few-flowered panicles, the flowers ebracteolate, their 
pedicels about 1 cm long. 
CANARIUM NITENS sp. nov. 
Arbor circiter 15 m alta, inflorescentiis puberulis exceptis 
glabra; foliis usque ad 35 cm longis, 7- vel 9-foliolatis, foliolis 
crasse coriaceis, utrinque nitidis, integris, oblongis, acuminatis, 
8 ad 13 cm longis, nervis utrinque circiter 10, subtus promi- 
nentibus ; paniculis obscure brunneo-puberulis, terminalibus, 
quam folia brevioribus ; fructibus anguste ovoideis. 
A tree about 15 m high, glabrous except the inflorescence. 
Branches brown, terete, glabrous, wrinkled when dry. Leaves 
alternate, up to 35 cm in length. Leaflets oblong, thickly coria- 
ceous, prominently shining on both surfaces, the lower a little 
paler then the upper, 7 or 9 to each leaf, 8 to 13 cm long, 2.5 
to 3.5 cm wide, entire, rather prominently acuminate, base acute, 
often somewhat inequilateral and sometimes rounded on one 
side and acute on the other; lateral nerves about 10, very 
