x, c, 4 Merrill: Studies on Philippine Anonaceae, 1 247 
Branches terete. Leaves very large, about 60 cm long, 15 cm 
wide, oblong, coriaceous, shining on both surfaces, the base 
cordate, the apex acuminate; lateral nerves very prominent, 
about 30 on each side of the midrib; petioles very stout, black 
when dry, 1 to 1.5 cm long, 5 mm in diameter. Flowers nu- 
merous, yellowish-green with a disagreeable odor, fascicled on 
the trunk, the protuberances bearing the flowers pubescent, 
supplied with small pubescent bracts, the pedicels 2 to 5 cm 
long, pubescent, and with a pubescent, reniform, rounded brac- 
teole, about 3 mm long, at about the lower one-third. Sepals 
broadly ovate, obtuse, 6 mm long, pubescent. Petals 2-seriate, 
subequal, thickly coriaceous, more or less pubescent on both sur- 
faces especially when immature, oblong-lanceolate or narrowly 
oblong-ovate, narrowed upward to the acute or blunt apex, 3 
to 3.5 cm long, 10 to 13 mm wide. Stamens very numerous, 
1.5 mm long, narrowly oblong, the connectives convex-truncate. 
Carpels indefinite, narrowly oblong or linear oblong, glabrous, 
2.5 mm long, each with a single basal ovule. 
Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, near Margosatubig, For. Bur. 13763 
Foxwortliy, DeMesa, & Villamil, May 11, 1912, in hill forests, altitude about 
120 meters, locally known to the Moros as tdba. 
A very striking and characteristic species, distinguishable by its very 
large leaves in conjunction with its fascicled, cauline, rather large flowers. 
POLYALTHIA GLANDULOSA sp. nov. § Monoon. 
Arbor, partibus junioribus floribusque plus minusve ferru- 
gineo-pubescentibus exceptis glabra; foliis chartaceis vel sub- 
coriaceis, oblongis, usque ad 12 cm longis, acutis vel obscure 
acuminatis, basi acutis, nervis utrinque circiter 6, curvatis, 
distinctis, subtus in axillis glandulosis; floribus axillaribus et 
in axillis defoliatis, solitariis vel binis, pedicellatis, circiter 6 
cm diametro, sepalis elliptico-ovatis, rotundatis, reflexis, petalis 
2.5 ad 3 cm longis, subaequalis; ellipticis ad elliptico-obovatis. 
A tree, glabrous or nearly so except the younger parts and 
the flowers which are more or less ferruginous-pubescent. 
Branches terete, dark gray when dry, somewhat wrinkled, glab- 
rous, the branchlets ferruginous-pubescent. Leaves oblong, 
chartaceous or subcoriaceous, rather pale when dry, or the very 
young ones brown, 9 to 12 cm long, 3 to 4 cm wide, acute or 
obscurely acuminate, base acute; lateral nerves about 6 on each 
side of the midrib, curved-ascending, anastomosing, the axils 
on the lower surface distinctly glandular, often obscurely 
bearded; petioles 2 to 3 mm long. Flowers green, axillary and 
in the axils of fallen leaves, solitary or in pairs, their pedicels 
