The Philippine Journal of Science, C. Botany. 
Vol. XI, No. 1, January, 1916. 
A NEW SPECIES OF HYDNOCARPUS 
By C. DeCandolle 
(Geneva, Switzerland ) 
In November, 1914, Mr. T. Alcala of Daraga, Albay Province, 
Luzon, submitted to the Bureau of Agriculture in Manila, some 
rather large detached fruits, accompanied by an inquiry as to 
whether or not they were edible. The fruits, which resembled 
nothing that had previously been received in the herbarium of 
the Bureau of Science, were identified by me as belonging to 
the Flacourtiaceae. A request was then sent to Mr. Alcala, that 
an attempt be made to secure flowering material of the plant. 
To this request Mr. Alcala courteously complied, and in February, 
1915, collected flowering specimens of the plant which he trans- 
mitted to Manila. This material reached Manila after my de- 
parture for the United States, and in view of the possible special 
interest of the plant, a portion of it was transmitted to Dr. 
C. DeCandolle in Geneva for identification. In view of the fact 
that chaulmoogra oil, which is produced by Asiatic represen- 
tatives of the closely allied genus Taraktogenos, and perhaps 
by representatives of the genus Hydnocarpus, it was thought that 
this Philippine form, having numerous large seeds, might prove 
to be of some value, and that its oil might possibly have the same 
curative value in the treatment of leprosy as is found to be the 
case with the true chaulmoogra oil. — E. D. M. 
FLACOURTIACEAE 
HYDNOCARPUS Gaertner 
HYDNOCARPUS ALCALAE C. DC. sp. nov. 
Monoicus, foliis breviter petiolatis, glabris, limbo oblongo- 
ovato integro basi inaequilatera latere latiore rotundato an- 
gustiore attenuate apice obtusiuscule acuminate, penninervio, 
nervis lateralibus adscendentibus utrinque 7 ; racemo simplici 
glabro folium superante dissite cymuligero, floribus hermaphrod- 
itis longe pedicellatis, sepalis 5 ovatis glabris, petalis 5 quam 
sepala paullo brevioribus ellipticis basi truncatis apice margine 
intusque breviter hirsutis, squamis basi petalorum affixis obiongis 
apice acute apiculatis extus dense et breviter hirsutis ; staminibus 
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