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2. AVERRHOA l.iim. 
1. A. bi limbi Linn.; Hook. f. 1. e. 439. 
(2737 Borden) March. In thickets and open forests below 100 ni., probably 
introduced from tropical America, widely distributed in the Philippines and the 
Tropics generally. T., Gumkis. 
KUTA('EJ^]. 
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1. FAGARA 1 jinn. 
1. F. integrifoliola Merrill, n. sp. § Macqiieria. 
A tree 13 to 20 m. high, the truidcs spineless, exce])t in young plants, the 
bi'anches with scattered spines, the idtimate branches much thickened, 1.5 to 
‘2 cm. in diameter, with few or no short spines, pale, glabrous. Leaves 45 to 
()0 cm. long, glabrous, 8 to 9 jugate, alternate, crowded toward the ends of the 
liranches, the common petiole with very few short straight spines on the upper 
surface in the lower part, the. internodes 5 to 7 cm. long; leaflets glabrous, 
shining, subcoriaceous, oblong to elliptical oblong, 10 to 15 cm. long, 4 to 6 
cm. wide, entire, strongly inecpiilateral at the acute base, the apex usually 
abruptly acuminate, the acumen blunt or sharp; petiolules (i to 10 mm. long; 
nerves 10 to 12 on each side of the midrib, not prominent, the secondary nerves 
nearly as prominent as the primary ones, the reticulations lax, the midrib 
spineless. Panicles in the upper axils, 15 to 25 cm. long, glabrous or slightly 
puberulent, rarely with very few small spines, the lower branches often 10 or 
15 cm. long. Flowers white, very fragrant, 4 mm. long, subsessile or their 
pedicels 1 to 2 mm. long, subtended by 2 or 3 small bracteoles. Sepals 4, glabrous, 
suborbicular, rounded, about 1 mm. iji diameter. Petals 4, glabrous, .elliptical 
or ol)long, obtuse, 4 mm. long, 2 mm. wide. Stamens 4, the anthers about 1.2 mm. 
long. Ovary glabrous. Fruit somewhat ovoid about 8 mm. long, bromi or 
black when dry. glabrous, the pericarp pitted. Seed ovoid, compressed, black 
and shining, about 0 mm. long. 
(88, 336 Barnes) November, February, fruit and flower (type) ; (2351, 2484, 
2740 Borden) January, March; (2307 Meyer) December; (1044, 1295 Whitford) 
J anuary, May. 
A s])ecies apparently related to Fagara rhetsa Roxb. In forests 100 to 200 m. 
T., Dvso. 
2. F. sp. ( ?). 
(1565, 3051 Borden) August, May; (1455 Ahern’s cQlIector) August. In forests 
100 to 130 m., staminate flowers and apparently deceased fruits only. T., 
Cayetana. 
2. EVODIA Forst. 
1. E. glabra Plume; Hook. f. Fh, Brit. Ind. 1 (1875) 489. 
(2947, 3045 Borden) March, May. In forests 120 to 150 m. Malaya. 
2. E. triphylla (Lam.) DC.; Hook. f. 1. c. 488. 
{2055 Borden) October; {013S Leiherg) July; (1474 Ahern’s collector) August. 
In forests and thickets l)elow 200 m., widely distributed in the Philippines. 
iMalaj^a and Burma. ' 
3. E. retusa Merrill, n. sp. 
A small tree 6 to 8 ni. high, neaily glabrous. Branches light gray or the 
ultimate branchlets brown, glabrous, the terminal buds slightly pubescent. Leaves 
opposite, ti'ifoliate, glabrous, the petioles 3 to 4 cm. long; leaflets oblong obovate, 
subcoriaceous, 6 to 10 cm. long, 3 to 5 cm. wide, the lateral ones somewhat inequi- 
lateral, narrowed below to the acute base, the apex rounded or obscurely broadly 
acuminate, retuse, often prominently so, entirely glabrous, paler beneath; nerves 
